Power, Ideology, and Human Rights: The Cold War at the United Nations

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  • Leventhal, Ariela
    • Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
Abstract
  • The devastation and horrors of the Second World War created a worldwide imperative to foster lasting peace through international cooperation and the establishment of common principles. This concern, both moral and practical, manifested in the creation of the United Nations (UN) and the International Bill of Rights. Though hopes were high that the new organization could produce remarkable change, postwar cooperation quickly dried up. Cold War tensions penetrated the UN and turned the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) into a contest between superpowers to create an institutional foundation for ideological supremacy. Soviet and American efforts to protect their interests domestically and internationally through both concurrent and opposing action at the UN helped bring about a legally weak and profoundly western Declaration.
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  • The Journal of Foreign Affairs at Carolina
Journal volume
  • 8
Journal issue
  • 2
Page start
  • 42
Page end
  • 53
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  • English

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