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HUMAN RIGHTS IN OUR TIME Essays in Memory of Victor Baras

edited by Marc F. Plattner

In the past decade, human rights as a component of U.S. foreign policy has been the subject of intense debate. First brought to the forefront by President Carter, it has also turned out to be one of the most controversial aspects of foreign policy during the Reagan administration. Policymakers who attempt to cope with human rights issues are immediately confronted with questions not only about the basic purposes of U.S. foreign policy, but also about the essential nature of our political system; they are compelled to reflect upon the interrelationship between domestic public opinion and the pursuit of U.S. interests abroad.

The complexity of human rights issues is reflected in the diverse contributions to this book. The authors examine the philosophical foundations of human rights, the lessons of history that are relevant to today's concerns, and contemporary policy. A concluding essay provides a critical analysis of the arguments made by the authors.

Dr. Marc F. Plattner, who is currently a fellow at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, served from 1981 to 1983 as an adviser on economic and social affairs with the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. He has also served as a program officer at the Twentieth Century Fund and as managing editor of The Public Interest. He is the author of Rousseau's State of Nature (1979) and of numerous articles and reviews on public policy issues.

Human Rights in Our Time

Essays in Memory of Victor Baras

edited by Marc F. Plattner

First published 1984 by Westview Press, Inc.

Published 2018 by Routledge
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Main entry under title:
Human rights in our time.
Includes index.
Contents: The philosophical foundation of human rights / Clifford Orwin and Thomas Pangle-Human rights and the international state system / Abram N. Shulsky-The British campaign against the slave trade / Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr., with Eli Nathans-[etc.]
1. Civil rights-Addresses, essays, lectures. 2. Civil rights (International law)-Addresses, essays, lectures. 3. United States-Foreign relations-1977- -Addresses, essays, lectures. 4. Baras, Victor. I. Baras, Victor. II. Plattner, Marc F., 1945
K3240.6.H877 1983 323.4 83-19829
ISBN 13: 978-0-367-02002-6 (hbk)

Contents

, Clifford Orwin and Thomas Pangle

, Abram N. Shulsky

, Charles H. Fairbanks, jr., with Eli Nathans

, Fred Baumann

, Myron Rush

, James Ring Adams

, Carnes Lord

, James H. Nichols, Jr.

1. ii
2. iii

Guide

Although considerations of human rights have always been a factor in the foreign policy of the United States, it is only in the past decade that explicit discussion of the human rights issue has occupied the center of national debate. The story of this development is a complex one, but there can be no question about the central role of President Jimmy Carter in elevating human rights to the forefront of American consciousness. It was during the "human rights offensive" that marked the early years of the Carter administration that the work that culminated in this volume began. The contours of the human rights debate may have shifted somewhat since then, but it has lost none of its intensity. Indeed, no aspect of foreign policy has provoked greater controversy during the first part of the Reagan administration.

Among foreign policy issues, that of human rights is unique in the directness with which it raises theoretical questions of the most fundamental kind. The policymaker or critic who deals seriously with the problem of human rights is immediately confronted by questions not only about the basic purposes of U.S. foreign policy but also about the essential nature of the American regime. The issue of human rights compels us to pay particular attention to the point where foreign policy and domestic politics intersect; in a democratic and pluralistic country like the United States, the influence of domestic public opinion on foreign policy can hardly be overestimated. Moreover, now that the issue of human rights has gained a prominent place on the American political agenda, it powerfully affects the formulation of our foreign policy toward key countries and hence the details of our diplomacy as well.

The diversity of the essays that compose this book reflects the depth and the complexity of the subject of human rights. The volume begins with a study by Clifford Orwin and Thomas Pangle of the philosophical foundations of human rights. Next follow two essays that bring the lessons of history to bear on our current concerns with human rights: one by Abram . Shulsky focusing on the seventeenth century and another by Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr., focusing on the nineteenth century. The four following essays, by Fred Baumann, Myron Rush, James Ring Adams, and Carnes Lord, deal more directly with questions of contemporary policy, but they too contain reflections of a more theoretical nature. Finally, in his concluding essay, James H. Nichols, Jr., takes on the difficult task of providing a critical analysis of the arguments offered by the other contributors.

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