Washington's world before the rise of human rights -- The Carter years : American foreign policy finds a soul -- The Reagan administration : democratization and proxy wars -- Human rights and China -- Post-Reagan : humanitarianism amid the ruins -- Terrorism and the pathology of American power.
Summary
Analyzes the troubled dynamic between the U.S. government and the human rights movement, arguing that America became a standard for human rights as part of a controversial effort to further the nation's global influence.
