POL101Y1 Study Guide - Final Guide: History Of The Jews In Germany, Eleanor Roosevelt, Morality Play
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Mazower - the strange triumph of human rights, 1933 . Origins of the un"s commitment to human rights and links this to the wartime decision to abandon the interwar system of an international regime for the protection of minority rights. After 1918, league of nations developed machinery for guaranteeing the national minorities of eastern europe. By 1940 the league"s policies were regarded as a failure and the coalition which had supported them after the ww1 had disintegrated. The great powers supported new policy because they escaped the specific commitments which the previous arrangements had imposed on them and the new rights regime had no binding legal force. The rights regime of the new un represented a considerable weakening of international will compared with the interwar league, but a weaker international organization was probably the price necessary for us and soviet participation. Between the two world wars, talk of rights was far less common than it would.
