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Table of Contents of Human Rights Policy of the Organization of American States in Latin America: Philanthropic Endeavors or the Exploitation of an Ideal?

Acknowledgements

I. Introduction

II. The Institutional Evolution of the Inter-American System of Human Rights

  1. The Devolepment of the Juridicial Postion of Human Rights in the Inter-American System
  2. An Institution for the Protection of Huam Rights: The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
  3. From an Exclusively Juridicial Organ to a Highly Political Institution: The Positions and Activities of the IACHR
  4. The “Conscience of the Hemisphere” Versus the Unconscious: The Relations Between the IACHR, the OAS Organs, and the Member States

III. The OAS Human Rights Policy in the 1970s: Between Dictatorships, Violence, and Hemisphere Policies

  1. The Human Rights Issue Enters the OAS Agenda: The Chilean Case (1973–1976)
  2. The Carter Administration and the OAS Human Rights Policy
  3. The Carter Administration, Argentina, and the OAS (1977–1980)

IV. Political Conflicts and Civil Wars in Central America

  1. Redefining Human Rights: The Reagan Administratino
  2. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and Central America during the 1980s
  3. The Commission’s Realpolitik: The Case of El Salvador (1980–1991)

V. Philanthropic Endeavors or the Exploitation of an Ideal? An Evaluation of the Human Rights Policy of the Organization of American States

VI. Bibliography, Sources, and Newspapers

VII. Appendices