International Humanitarianism in the Contemporary World: Forms and Issues

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David P. Forsythe on John Charvet and Elisa Kaczynska-Nay. The Liberal Project and Human Rights: The Theory and Practice of a New World Order. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 446pp.

A review of: John Charvet and Elisa Kaczynska-Nay. The Liberal Project and Human Rights: The Theory and Practice of a New World Order. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 446pp

David P. Forsythe on The United States and the Rule of Law in International Affairs by John F. Murphy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 367pp.

A review of: The United States and the Rule of Law in International Affairs by John F. Murphy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 367pp

Human Rights Education for the Twenty-First Century

Book review of George J. Andreopoulos & Richard Pierre Claude\u27s Human Rights Education for the Twenty-First Centur

Review of Joe Renouard, \u3ci\u3eHuman Rights in American Foreign Policy; From the 1960s to the Soviet Collapse\u3c/i\u3e (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016), ISBN 9780812247732, 324 pages.

There are historians who do dense narrative history with great attention to documenting the details. And there are other historians who use history to paint a big conceptual picture whose accuracy often leads to much debate. Joe Renouard is in the former camp, with his new book on human rights in US foreign policy during the middle and late stages of the Cold War. Samuel Moyn is in the latter camp, with his stimulating and widely read but controversial interpretations in The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History