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The Ambivalence of Good: Human Rights in International Politics since the 1940s (Oxford Studies in Modern European History) by Jan Eckel; is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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The Ambivalence of Good examines the genesis and evolution of international human rights politics since the 1940s. Focusing on key developments such as the shaping of the UN human rights system, decolonization, the rise of Amnesty International, the campaigns against the Pinochet dictatorship, the moral politics of Western governments, or dissidence in Eastern Europe, the book traces how human rights profoundly, if subtly, transformed global affairs. <p>Moving beyond monocausal explanations and
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jan Eckel;
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780191086113
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Political Science, History, Human Rights
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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