Impotent superpower--potent small state
Subtitle: potentials and limitations of human rights objectives in the foreign policies of the United States and Norway
By: Jan Egeland.
Publisher: Norwegian University Press; Oxford University Press [distributor]
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Oslo; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Civil rights.; Human rights.; Norway -- Foreign relations -- 1945-; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989.
Description: Contending that smaller nations such as Norway and the Netherlands are more able than larger ones to make progress in bilateral or multilateral negotiations on human rights, this book provides a timely, comprehensive, and provocative survey of international human rights action. Egeland compares the human rights policies of the United States and Norway, and looks back on the past two American administrations to show the difficulties that superpower status creates in developing sound human rights policy.--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-226) and index.