Mitoma, G: Human Rights and the Negotiation of American Powe

"Human Rights and the Negotiation of American Power is carefully crafted and beautifully written, delving into the historical origins of the modern framework of international human rights as an organizing principle of the postwar order. In revealing new historical material on the influence of U.S. nongovernmental organizations in the 1940s, Mitoma provides a more complicated intellectual history for the UN human rights system than previously assumed. This is a major contribution to our understanding of American foreign policy and how it has been both embraced and contested."-Richard A. Wilson, University of Connecticut "Human Rights and the Negotiation of American Power seeks to illuminate further the emergence of the postwar human rights order and to clarify and explain the tension between U.S. exceptionalism and its self-declared leadership in the promotion of international human rights... A worthwhile and important endeavor."-Roland Burke, author of Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights