A Bipolar World
See Main Page for a guide
to all contents of all sections.
Contents
World Unity
- The United Nations
- Human Rights: Universal Ideals or a Western Impositions?
- WEB The Laws of War [At
Yale]
The Hague Conventions, Geneva Conventions, and Pacific Protocol.
- WEB International Human Rights
Instruments [At Minnesota]
Texts of all major treaties, agreements, etc. since 1945, in English. Many also in French
and Spanish.
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WWW International Constitutional Law [Added 7/20/98]
Maintains online texts in English, and search machines for comparative studies of
constitutions.
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 [At this
Site]
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American
Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man [At Democracy.gov]
Adopted by the Ninth International Conference of American States at Bogota, Colombia,
1948.
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European Convention for the Protection
of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, 1950 [At coe.int]
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The Helsinki
Accords, 1975 [At Civnet]
- Universal Declaration on the
Human Genome and Human Rights, 199? [At Minnesota]
- Female Genital Mutilation [At Religious Tolerance][Summary]
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Freedom of
Speech and Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses [At Internet Archive, from Unn.Uk] - a Muslim discussion.
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Nelson Mandela: Address
on Human Rights, 1991 [At Civnet]
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Elie Wiesel: Dedication
of Holocaust Museum, 1993 [At Civnet]
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The Cold War
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WEB Cold
War International History Project
The site has a huge and accessible online library.
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WEB Cold War Hot Links
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WEB Coldwar Timeline
- WEB Documents Relating to American
Foreign Policy--the Cold War [At Mt. Holyoke]
- WEB Documents Relating to American
Foreign Policy--NATO [At Mt. Holyoke]
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WEB Documents
on the Truman Doctrine [At Truman Library]
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The
Atlantic Charter, 1941
- Beginnings
- Berlin Crises
- Cuban Crises
- Cold Warriors
- United States Atomic Energy Commission: In The Matter of J. Robert
Oppenheimer [At Yale]
Texts of Principal Documents and Letters of Personnel Security Board, General Manager,
Commissioners Washington, D.C., May 27, 1954, through June 29, 1954
- President Eisenhower: The Eisenhower Doctrine on
the Middle
- TASS: Statement on the Eisenhower Doctrine,
January 14 1957 [At this Site]
- John Foster Dulles: Dynamic Peace, 1957 [At
this Site]
- Khrushchev and Eisenhower: Summit Statements,
May 16 1960 [At this Site]
- Nikita Krushchev: Address to the UN General Assembly,
Sept. 23 1960 [At this Site]
- East, A Message to Congress, January 5,
1957 [At this Site]
- President John F. Kennedy: Inaugural Address, 1961 [At
this Site]
- President John F. Kennedy: Towards a Strategy of
Peace, June 10, 1963 [At this Site]
- A. V. Efimov: Modern
History: Textbook for the Ninth Form, 1965. [At MCPS]
A Soviet textbook on US History from the height of the Cold War.
- Various Detentes
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Literary Reflections
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NOTES: Dates of accession of material added since July 1998 can be seen in the New Additions page.. The date of inception
was 9/22/1997. Links to files at other site are indicated by [At some indication of the site
name or location]. Locally available texts are marked by [At this Site]. WEB indicates a link to one of small
number of high quality web sites which provide either more texts or an especially valuable
overview.
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