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Human Rights
Human Rights Language
Human Rights Transnational Activism
Human Rights Violators
Latin American Exiles
Latin American Human Rights Networks
Latin American Left
leftist
Mexican Agreement
Partido Colorado
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Transnational Advocacy Networks
Transnational Human Rights Movement
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Uruguayan Case
Uruguayan Exiles
Uruguayan Government
Uruguayan Leftists
Uruguayan Military
Uruguayan Politics
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415975971
- Weight: 670g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 May 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book takes an innovative look at international relations. Focusing on the worldwide campaign against abuses by the right-wing authoritarian regime in Uruguay (1973-1984), it explores how norms and ideas interact with political interests, both global and domestic. It examines joint actions by differently-motivated actors such as the leftist activists who had to flee Uruguay in these years, the Organization of American States, The United Nations, Amnesty International, and the United States. It traces language and procedures for making their claims. The chief goal, however, is to peruse the specific reasons that led these actors to endorse the central core of liberal rights that gave foundation to this system. A close examination of the available documents shows that even as they joined efforts to protest abuses, they were still pursuing their individual agendas, which is often overlooked in the existing scholarship on human rights transnational activism. The book pays special attention to the Uruguayan exiles, analyzing why and how leftist activists and leaders adopted the human rights language, which had so far been used to attack communism in the context of the Cold War.
Vania Markarian was born in Uruguay in 1971. She received her BA from the Universidad de la República (Montevideo, Uruguay) in 1996. In 2003, she completed her Ph.D. Columbia University. She moved back to Montevideo in 2004 and currently works at the Universidad de la República. She has several publications on Latin American contemporary history.
