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Lexington Books The Struggle over Human Rights The Non-Aligned Movement Jimmy Carter and Neoliberalism by Courtney Hercus
The Struggle over Human Rights: The Non-Aligned Movement, Jimmy Carter, and Neoliberalism traces the origins of the relationship between neoliberalism and the modern doctrine of human rights to the 1970s. It uses empirical evidence to prove that the Carter administration transformed the U.S., and the traditional Western liberal approach to human rights, in response, in part, to the actions of the Non-Aligned Movement. The New International Economic Order (NIEO), a high-point in Non-Aligned solidarity, placed pressures on the power relations of the international system and sought to advance the social and economic rights of the Third World. Carter's transformation promoted civil and political rights as the only acceptable "human" rights and relegated economic rights to a "basic needs" approach, undercutting welfare state principles in the U.S. and in the newly emergent independent states in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. This doctrine, as the book highlights through extensive archival research, sharpened the definition of international human rights to serve the maintenance of the U.S.-led world order. Carter's diplomatic use of human rights obfuscated exploitative economic structures and paved the way for an aggressive neoliberal transformation through World Bank and IMF Structural Adjustment Programs under Reagan. Historical studies of human rights have ignored these connections, making this book a unique contribution to the scholarship of human rights._x000D_ Table of contents :- _x000D_
Introduction_x000D_
Chapter 1 - The Historical Lineage of Twentieth Century Rights Discourse _x000D_
Chapter 2 - Human Rights, The US and International Activism: 1941-1962_x000D_
Chapter 3 - International Human Rights Activism Between 1963 and 1976: The Escalation of Concurrent Social Forces _x000D_
Chapter 4 - Economic Rights and the Presidency of Jimmy Carter_x000D_
Chapter 5 - The Legacy of Carter's Human Rights Doctrine_x000D_
Conclusion_x000D_
Bibliography_x000D_
Index_x000D_
About the Author_x000D_