Join us November 16 at noon as Rasmus S. Søndergaard discusses his book Reagan, Congress, and Human Rights: Contesting Morality in US Foreign Policy.  The Library is co-hosting this presentation with the Office of the Historian.  Dr. Søndergaard is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in the Department of History, Lunds Universitet, Sweden.  He is a recipient of the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science's Elite Research Ph.D. Prize.

“An engaging and original contribution to our understanding of the place of human rights in US foreign policy in the 1980s.” -- Sarah B. Snyder, American University

“In explaining how idealists in Congress forced the Reagan administration to embrace and recast human rights, Søndergaard reveals how profoundly the trajectory of US human rights policy was determined by contestation between the executive and the legislature. This richly researched book illuminates a poorly understood decade in the development of international human rights and recovers the role of overlooked actors, both in Congress and outside government.”--  Barbara Keys, Durham University

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