Human Rights and Asian American Literature and Culture Reference library
Crystal Parikh
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature and Culture
...superpowers were in agreement. Given, too, how closely newly independent nations guarded their right to self-determination (a principle that itself became codified as a right in most human rights treaties after the UDHR), human rights enjoyed almost no practicable value or justiciability in the international arena until the close of the Cold War and the postsocialist restructuring of the world order in its wake. 14 Nevertheless, both sides—but especially the United States and its allies—readily adopted human rights as part of their rhetorical arsenal in a...
