عنوان

A Clash of Ideals: Human Rights and Non-intervention in U.S. Foreign Policy, 1977-1988

شماره

TL52843

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

A Clash of Ideals: Human Rights and Non-intervention in U.S. Foreign Policy, 1977-1988

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Smith, James Walker

نام ساير پديدآوران

Dietrich, Christopher

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Fordham University

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2020

متن يادداشت

805 p.

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

Fordham University

امتياز متن

2020

متن يادداشت

The dissertation argues that Carter, Reagan, and other domestic and international actors deployed the ideals of universal human rights and state sovereignty as a political language. The protean meanings they assigned to the terms of that language were contingent upon calculations of political and strategic interests. The discourse of rights and sovereignty in domestic and international politics served as a means to justify or check political change, rather than as non-ideological, moral, and legal imperatives. In short, Carter, Reagan, and others used morality and law as political strategy. The study proceeds from an analysis of records from the Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan presidential libraries. The personal papers of Patricia Derian, Barry Goldwater, Henry "Scoop" Jackson, and Donald Fraser provide additional context for the political uses of rights and sovereignty. So too, the papers of William Casey, Warren Christopher, and many of their contemporaries archived at the Hoover Institute enriched this analysis. The author also analyzed digital and other published collections of primary documents, interviewed and corresponded with former public officials, and reviewed memoirs, diaries, interview transcripts, and Congressional hearings and reports. While the dissertation probes the official mind of Washington in the manner of traditional diplomatic history, it also broadens that perspective by assessing how competing domestic and international actors deployed the conflicting ideals of rights and sovereignty. The dissertation builds upon the secondary literature by examining how Carter and others deployed human rights and non-intervention in the 1970s and 1980s. It connects that discourse to the history of U.S. foreign relations, domestic politics, international law, and the movement for economic decolonization. Then, after examining Carter's embrace of rights and non-intervention as a campaign strategy and the contentious transformation of that rhetoric into policy, the dissertation employs as case studies U.S. relations with Panama, Nicaragua, and Iran. Finally, the dissertation assesses continuity and change in Reagan's use of the ideals of rights and sovereignty in a foreign policy marked by anti-communism and democracy promotion.

اصطلاح موضوعی

American history

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Smith, James Walker

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Dietrich, Christopher

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

Fordham University

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y