Human Rights and the Uses of History

Human Rights and the Uses of History
Samuel Moyn (Author)

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Human Rights

Where did human rights come from? This question, rarely asked before the end of the Cold War, has in recent years become a major focus of historical and ideological strife. In a series of reflective and critical essays, Samuel Moyn engages with some of the leading theorists of human rights, who have been creating a field from scratch without due reflection on the local and temporary contexts of their narratives.

Having staked out his owns claims about the postwar origins of human rights discourse in his acclaimed The Last Utopia, Moyn's new volume takes issue with his intellectual opponents—including, especially, those seeking justification for humanitarian intervention.

• Rank: #204605 in Books
• Published on: 2014-06-17
• Released on: 2014-06-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, 1.25 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 160 pages

All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals (Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity)

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All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals (Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity)
by David Scheffer
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Human Rights

Within days of Madeleine Albright's confirmation as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in 1993, she instructed David Scheffer to spearhead the historic mission to create a war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. As senior adviser to Albright and then as President Clinton's ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues, Scheffer was at the forefront of the efforts that led to criminal tribunals for the Balkans, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and Cambodia, and that resulted in the creation of the permanent International Criminal Court. All the Missing Souls is Scheffer's gripping insider's account of the international gamble to prosecute those responsible for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, and to redress some of the bloodiest human rights atrocities in our time.

Scheffer reveals the truth behind Washington's failures during the 1994 Rwandan genocide and the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, the anemic hunt for notorious war criminals, how American exceptionalism undercut his diplomacy, and the perilous quests for accountability in Kosovo and Cambodia. He takes readers from the killing fields of Sierra Leone to the political back rooms of the U.N. Security Council, providing candid portraits of major figures such as Madeleine Albright, Anthony Lake, Richard Goldstone, Louise Arbour, Samuel "Sandy" Berger, Richard Holbrooke, and Wesley Clark, among others.

A stirring personal account of an important historical chapter, All the Missing Souls provides new insights into the continuing struggle for international justice.

• Rank: #257717 in Books
• Published on: 2013-01-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 568 pages