Human rights in American foreign policy: from the 1960s to the Soviet collapse

This title explores America's international human rights policies from the Vietnam War era to the end of the Cold War.

Global in scope and ambitious in scale, this book examines American responses to a broad array of human rights violations: torture and political imprisonment in South America; apartheid in South Africa; state violence in China; civil wars in Central America; persecution of Jews in the Soviet Union; movements for democracy and civil liberties in East Asia and Eastern Europe, and revolutionary political transitions in Iran, Nicaragua, and the collapsing USSR.