New Deal for the World America's Vision for Human Rights

Name: New Deal for the World America's Vision for Human Rights
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ISBN: 9780674025363

ISBN-10: 0674025369

ISBN-13: 9780674025363

Edition: 2005

Authors: Elizabeth Borgwardt

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In a work of sweeping scope and luminous detail, Elizabeth Borgwardt describes how a cadre of World War II American planners inaugurated the ideas and institutions that underlie our modern international human rights regime. Borgwardt finds the key in the 1941 Atlantic Charter and its Anglo-American vision of "war and peace aims." In attempting to globalize what U.S. planners heralded as domestic New Deal ideas about security, the ideology of the Atlantic Charter--buttressed by FDR's "Four Freedoms" and the legacies of World War I--redefined human rights and America's vision for the world. Three sets of international negotiations brought the Atlantic Charter blueprint to life--Bretton…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/30/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 1.08" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English

Elizabeth Borgwardt is Associate Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis.



Introduction: Charting a New Course for Human Rights



Somewhere in the Atlantic, August 1941



The Ghost of Woodrow Wilson



Forging a New American Multilateralism



Bretton Woods, July 1944



The Perils of Economic Planning



Investing in Global Stability



San Francisco, June 1945



The Chimera of Collective Security



Learning to Work Together by Working Together



Nuremberg, August 1945



The Limits of Law



Internationalizing New Deal Justice



America in the World



Forgotten Legacies of the Atlantic Charter



An Expanding Vision of the National Interest Atlantic Charter


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index