Book contents
- International Law and the Cold War
- International Law and the Cold War
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- About the Editors
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Reading and Unreading a Historiography of Hiatus
- Part I The Anti-linear Cold War
- Part II The Generative/Productive Cold War
- 4 Accounting for the ENMOD Convention: Cold War Influences on the Origins and Development of the 1976 Convention on Environmental Modification Techniques
- 5 Nuclear Weapons Law and the Cold War and Post–Cold War Worlds: a Story of Co-production
- 6 Parallel Worlds: Cold War Division Space
- 7 Shadowboxing: The Data Shadows of Cold War International Law
- 8 Contesting the Right to Leave in International Law: the Berlin Wall, the Third World Brain Drain and the Politics of Emigration in the 1960s
- 9 Bridging Ideologies: Julian Huxley, Détente, and the Emergence of International Environmental Law
- 10 More than a ‘Parlour Game’: International Law in Australian Public Debate, 1965–1966
- 11 Environmental Justice, the Cold War and US Human Rights Exceptionalism
- 12 The Cold War and Its Impact on Soviet Legal Doctrine
- 13 Forced Labour
- 14 Rupture and Continuity: North–South Struggles over Debt and Economic Co-operation at the End of the Cold War
- 15 The Cold War History of the Landmines Convention
- Part III The Parochial/Plural Cold War
- References to Cold War Volume
- Index
11 - Environmental Justice, the Cold War and US Human Rights Exceptionalism
from Part II - The Generative/Productive Cold War
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2019
- International Law and the Cold War
- International Law and the Cold War
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- About the Editors
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Reading and Unreading a Historiography of Hiatus
- Part I The Anti-linear Cold War
- Part II The Generative/Productive Cold War
- 4 Accounting for the ENMOD Convention: Cold War Influences on the Origins and Development of the 1976 Convention on Environmental Modification Techniques
- 5 Nuclear Weapons Law and the Cold War and Post–Cold War Worlds: a Story of Co-production
- 6 Parallel Worlds: Cold War Division Space
- 7 Shadowboxing: The Data Shadows of Cold War International Law
- 8 Contesting the Right to Leave in International Law: the Berlin Wall, the Third World Brain Drain and the Politics of Emigration in the 1960s
- 9 Bridging Ideologies: Julian Huxley, Détente, and the Emergence of International Environmental Law
- 10 More than a ‘Parlour Game’: International Law in Australian Public Debate, 1965–1966
- 11 Environmental Justice, the Cold War and US Human Rights Exceptionalism
- 12 The Cold War and Its Impact on Soviet Legal Doctrine
- 13 Forced Labour
- 14 Rupture and Continuity: North–South Struggles over Debt and Economic Co-operation at the End of the Cold War
- 15 The Cold War History of the Landmines Convention
- Part III The Parochial/Plural Cold War
- References to Cold War Volume
- Index
Summary
Since 1945, the United States has played a significant role in the development and promotion of international human rights law while simultaneously distancing itself from the instruments and institutions that implement this body of law. The US often claims that it does not need to bind itself to international human rights treaties because its legal system is superior to that of other nations and provides its population more protection than international law – an attitude known as ‘American exceptionalism’. Out of the nine core human rights treaties negotiated in the last several decades under the auspices of the United Nations, the United States is a party to only three: the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (‘CERD’); the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (‘ICCPR’); and the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (‘CAT’).
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- International Law and the Cold War , pp. 232 - 255Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019