CLJ 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Camp David Accords, Nobel Peace Prize, International Covenant On Civil And Political Rights
15 Dec 2017
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Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood. Foreign policy has various dimensions: how a state sees itself, how a state views the world, how a state understands its role in the world. Strong belief of its link to moral, historical, political and national interest concerns: how does it impact on the us foreign policy? has varied from neutralism, isolationism and interventionism. President jimmy carter (1977-1981) included human rights in the us. Foreign policy, following a trend established by canada and the netherlands. Camp david peace accords between egypt and israel: return of the panama canal. Follow up agreement on nuclear arms control with ussr: annual state department reports on human rights. Practices: the rest of the world followed at the end of the cold war, Iccpr and icescr come into force: amnesty international won the nobel peace price. International: bilateral relations, global human rights regimes.
