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Title

Impotent superpower--potent small state : potentials and limitations of human rights objectives in the foreign policies of the United States and Norway / Jan Egeland.

Author

Egeland, Jan.

Publication

Oslo : Norwegian University Press ; New York : Distributed by Oxford University Press, c1988.

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Description

x, 232 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Contending that smaller nations such as Norway and the Netherlands are more able than larger ones to make progress in bilateral or multilateral negotiations on human rights, this book provides a timely, comprehensive, and provocative survey of international human rights action. Egeland compares the human rights policies of the United States and Norway, and looks back on the past two American administrations to show the difficulties that superpower status creates in developing sound human rights policy.--Publisher description.

Subject

• Since 1945
• Human rights > Norway
• Human rights > United States
• Human Rights
• Norway > Foreign relations > 1945-
• United States > Foreign relations > 1945-

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-226).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Search for Coherent Human Rights Policies -- Builders and Brakers of Human Rights Policies -- The Roots of Human Rights Policies -- Bilateral Human Rights Policies -- The Washington-Montevideo Connection -- The Olso-Colombo Connection -- Dealing with Pretoria -- Foreign Assistance and Human Rights -- Legislating Human Rights Objectives for Aid -- Military and Security Assistance -- Participation in Inter-Governmental Procedures -- Attitudes to International Law -- Efforts to Influence IGOs -- Impotent Superpower-Potent Small State.

ISBN

8200027007 :

OCLC

25051171

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library