Freedom on Fire Human Rights Wars and America's Response

Name: Freedom on Fire Human Rights Wars and America's Response
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ISBN: 9780674018556

ISBN-10: 0674018559

ISBN-13: 9780674018556

Edition: 2003

Authors: John Shattuck

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As the chief human rights official of the Clinton Administration, John Shattuck faced far-flung challenges. Disasters were exploding simultaneously--genocide in Rwanda and Bosnia, murder and atrocities in Haiti, repression in China, brutal ethnic wars, and failed states in other parts of the world. But America was mired in conflicting priorities and was reluctant to act. What were Shattuck and his allies to do? This is the story of their struggle inside the U.S. government over how to respond. Shattuck tells what was tried and what was learned as he and other human rights hawks worked to change the Clinton Administration's human rights policy from disengagement to saving lives and bringing…

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List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/31/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.06" wide x 7.87" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

John Shattuck served as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor from 1993 to 1998, and as U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic from 1998 to 2000. Currently, he is Chief Executive Officer of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation in Boston.



Introduction



Rwanda: The Genocide That Might Have Been Prevented



Rwanda: The Struggle for Justice



Haiti: A Tale of Two Presidents



Bosnia: The Pariah Problem



Bosnia: Facing Reality



Bosnia and Kosovo: Breaking the Cycle



The China Syndrome



China: Collision Course



Strategies for Peace Chronology State Department Organizational Chart


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index