Mondadori Store

Trova Mondadori Store

Benvenuto
Accedi o registrati

lista preferiti

Per utilizzare la funzione prodotti desiderati devi accedere o registrarti

Vai al carrello
 prodotti nel carrello

Totale  articoli

0,00 € IVA Inclusa

Ideal Illusions

James Peck
pubblicato da Henry Holt and Co.

Prezzo online:
8,31
9,55
-13 %
9,55

From a noted historian and foreign-policy analyst, a groundbreaking critique of the troubling symbiosis between Washington and the human rights movement

The United States has long been hailed as a powerful force for global human rights. Now, drawing on thousands of documents from the CIA, the National Security Council, the Pentagon, and development agencies, James Peck shows in blunt detail how Washington has shaped human rights into a potent ideological weapon for purposes having little to do with rightsand everything to do with furthering America's global reach.

Using the words of Washington's leaders when they are speaking among themselves, Peck tracks the rise of human rights from its dismissal in the cold war years as "fuzzy minded" to its calculated adoption, after the Vietnam War, as a rationale for American foreign engagement. He considers such milestones as the fight for Soviet dissidents, Tiananmen Square, and today's war on terror, exposing in the process how the human rights movement has too often failed to challenge Washington's strategies.

A gripping and elegant work of analysis, Ideal Illusions argues that the movement must break free from Washington if it is to develop a truly uncompromising critique of power in all its forms.

Dettagli down

Generi Storia e Biografie » Storia delle Americhe , Politica e Società » Politica e Istituzioni » Diritti umani » Propaganda, controllo politico e libertà » Problemi e Processi sociali » Rifugiati e asilo politico

Editore Henry Holt And Co.

Formato Ebook con Adobe DRM

Pubblicato 15/03/2011

Lingua Inglese

EAN-13 9781429991568

0 recensioni dei lettori  media voto 0  su  5

Scrivi una recensione per "Ideal Illusions"

Ideal Illusions
 

Accedi o Registrati  per aggiungere una recensione

usa questo box per dare una valutazione all'articolo: leggi le linee guida
torna su Torna in cima