America's Jekyll-and-Hyde exceptionalism

American Exceptionalism and Human Rights

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 111-143

  Koh, Harold Hongju ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (33)

1. Seymour M. Lipset, American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword (1996); 2 Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America 36-37 (Phillips Bradley ed., Henry Reeve trans., A. A. Knopf 1948) (1835).
2. Sean Wilentz, Against Exceptionalism: Class Consciousness and the American Labor Movement, 1790-1820
3. Jacob S. Hacker, The Divided Welfare State: The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States 5-28 (2002
4. David M. Wrobel, The End of American Exceptionalism: Frontier Anxiety from the Old West to the New Deal (1996
5. Frederick Jackson Turner, The Significance of the Frontier in American History, in Does the Frontier Experience Make America Exceptional? 18 (Richard W. Etulain ed., 1999) (America's frontier anxiety).
6. Joseph Lepgold, Timothy McKeown, Is American Foreign Policy Exceptional? An Empirical Analysis, 110 Pol. Sci. Q. 369, 369 (1995).
7. Louis Henkin, Gerald L. Neuman, Diane F. Orentlicher & David W. Leebron, Human Rights 564 (1999
8. Harold Hongju Koh, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, Democracy, Human Rights & Labor, & William R. Yeomans, Chief of Staff, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Dep't of Justice, Reply to Questions from the U.N. Committee Against Torture 3 (May 11, 2000)
9. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/06/20040626-19.html
10. Harold Hongju Koh, International Law as Part of Our Law, 98 Am. J. Int'l L. 43, 51 (2004 http://www.icj-cij.org/icjwww/idocket/imus/imusframe.htm
11. http://www.un.int/usa/01_104.htm
12. Harold Hongju Koh, A World Drowning in Guns, 71 Fordham L. Rev. 2333 (2003
13. http://www.amnestyusa.org/abolish/reports/amr51_144_2002.pdf
14. Samantha Power, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (2002).
15. Sungjoo Han, The Failure of Democracy in South Korea (1974)
16. Gregory Henderson, Korea: The Politics of the Vortex 177-91 (1968).
17. Ann Devroy, Dana Priest, Clinton Aides Debate Size of U.S. Peacekeeping Force for Bosnia, Wash. Post., Sept. 21, 1995, at A24.
18. Dexter Filkins, The Anxiety of Postwar Afghans, N.Y. Times, Mar. 31, 2002, at D5
19. http://www.hrw.org/press/2002/03/afghanistan0303.htm
20. http://www.lchr.org/us_law/loss/imbalance/powers.pdf
21. http://www.lchr.org/pubs/descriptions/loss_report.pdf
22. http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss.pdf
23. Mary Ann Glendon, A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (2001).
24. http://www.asil.org/taskforce/oconnell.pdf
25. David Kennedy, The Dark Sides of Virtue: Reassessing International Humanitarianism (2004).
26. Jonathan D. Greenberg, Does Power Trump Law?, 55 Stan. L. Rev. 1789 (2003).
27. Jed Rubenfeld, Unilateralism and Constitutionalism (unpublished manuscript, on file with author). Cf. Bowling for Columbine (Dog Eat Dog Films 2002) (seeking cultural explanation for American devotion to guns).
28. Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, The International Criminal Court and the Political Economy of Antitreaty Discourse, 55 Stan. L. Rev. 1597 (2003
29. Harold Hongju Koh, Why Do Nations Obey International Law?, 106 Yale L.J. 2599 (1997).
30. Seth Mydans, U.N. and Cambodia Reach an Accord for Khmer Rouge Trial, N.Y. Times, Mar. 18, 2003, at A5.
31. Paul Richter, U.S. Calls International Court a Waste, Chi. Trib., Mar. 1, 2002, at 6
32. Harold Hongju Koh, The Case against Military Commissions, 96 Am. J. Int'l L. 337 (2002).
33. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/03/20030317-7.html