This work provides perspectives from law, qualitative political science, quantitative political science, public diplomacy, and non-governmental action. Human rights are very much a transnational or intermestic subject as well as an interdisciplinary one. This book reviews a number of these dilemmas in U.S. foreign policy on human rights, as well as delving into the domestic politics that undergrid, for better or worse, a concern for rights abroad. The control of nuclear technology to prevent its misuse for military purposes is the oldest, most persistent, most comprehensive, most ambitious and most advanced attempt to put the reins of international law on the dynamics of a vastly destructive human capacity. Whether it is also the most successful remains an open question.
Some commentators see the glass to be half full and others half-empty.
On the one side, nuclear technology has been effectively reined in by a variety of multilateral treaties committing the member states to use it only for peaceful purposes. 1 v. Oxford University Press, 2000. At the start of a new century, poverty remains a global problem of huge proportions. Eight of every 100 infants do not live to see their fifth birthday. Nine of every 100 boys and 14 of every 100 girls who reach school age do not attend school.