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Article: The Reagan administration, the United Nations & human rights.(Ronald Reagan )(Report)
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- Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table
- Article date:
- December 22, 2007
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Abstract
The literature is dominated by a paradigm suggesting that the administration of Ronald Reagan was very poor with respect to the advocacy and promotion of international human rights. The "turnaround thesis" contends that only at the end of the Reagan era, after hardliners had left, were those truly concerned with human rights free to exercise a considerable effect on U.S. foreign policy.
The contention of this article is that rigid acceptance of the conventional view of Reagan's human rights policy conceals more than it reveals. From the beginning the Reagan team was responsible for substantial contributions in the field of human rights. This ...