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The following sources may be useful for academic research on the theme of human rights and U.S. foreign policy. Many were used in the preparation of this Web siteFor more bibliographic references and continued in-depth analysis of George Lister's papers, see Krauss, Gregory. ''Impacting Foreign Policy as a Mid-Level Bureaucrat: The Diplomatic Career of George Lister.'' Thesis prepared for degree of Masters in Public Affairs, Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs. May 2007.
Abrams, Elliott. ''Human Rights and the Refugee Crisis.'' Current Policy 401 (2 June 1982) U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Public Affairs.
---. ''Human Rights Situation in El Salvador.'' Department of State Bulletin 82.2061 (April 1982): 68-69.
---. ''Human Rights Situation in Nicaragua.'' Department of State Bulletin 82.2061 (April 1982): 69-71.
---. ''Security and Sacrifice: Isolation, Intervention, and American Foreign Policy.'' Indianapolis, Indiana: Hudson Institute, 1995.
Alinsky, Saul. ''Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals.'' New York: Vintage Books, 1971.
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Anderson, Martin Edwin. '''Report' Card.'' Insight. 11 March 2002: 12-15, 33.
Appleby, Paul. ''Government is Different.'' Big Democracy. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945. 1-10.
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Arnson, Cynthia. ''Crossroads: Congress, the President, and Central America, 1976-1993.'' University Park, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993.
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---. ''Reexamining Nuremberg as a New Deal Institution: Politics, Culture, and the Limits of Law in Generating Human Rights Norms.'' Berkeley Journal of International Law 23.2 (July 2005): 401-462.
---. '''When You State a Moral Principle, You Are Stuck With It': The 1941 Atlantic Charter as a Human Rights Instrument.'' Virginia Journal of International Law 46.3 (2006): 501-562.
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---. ''The Washington Office on Latin America: Charting a New Path in U.S.-Latin American Relations.'' Summer 1991. Accessed 3 January 2006:
Brown, Peter G., and Douglas Maclean, eds. ''Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy.'' Lexington, Massachusetts: Lexington Books, 1979.
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Cleary, Ed. ''Human Rights Organizations: Growth in Turbulence.'' Church-State Relations and Religious Liberty in Mexico: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Ed. Derek Davis. Waco, Texas: J. M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies, 2002.
---. ''The Struggle for Human Rights in Latin America.'' Westport, CT: Praeger Books, 1997.
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De Neufville, Judith Innes. ''Human Rights Reporting as a Policy Tool: An Examination of the State Department Country Reports.'' Human Rights Quarterly 8.4 (1986): 681-699.
Derian, Patricia M. ''Human Rights and American Foreign Policy.'' Universal Human Rights 1.1 (January-March 1979): 3-9.
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---. ''The Mobilization of Shame: A World View of Human Rights.'' New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.
Drinan, Robert F., and Teresa T. Kuo. ''Putting the World's Oppressors on Trial: The Torture Victim Protection Act.'' Human Rights Quarterly 15.3 (1993): 605-24.
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Engle, Karen. ''Calling in the Troops: The Uneasy Relationships between Women's Rights, Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention.'' Harvard Human Rights Journal 20 (2007): n. pag.
---. ''Liberal Internationalism, Feminism, and the Suppression of Critique: Contemporary Approaches to Global Order in the United States.'' Harvard International Law Journal 46.2 (Summer 2005): 427-439.
Eubank, Margaret, ed. ''Remembrance and Celebration of the Life of George Lister, September 20, 1913 - February 4, 2004.'' Washington, D.C. 21 February 2004.
Evans, Rebecca. ''Pinochet in London - Pinochet in Chile: International and Domestic Politics in Human Rights Policy.'' Human Rights Quarterly 28.1 (February 2006): 207-244.
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Forsythe, David P. ''Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy: Retrospect and Prospect.'' Political Science Quarterly 105.3 (1990): 435-454.
---. ''Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy: Retrospect and Prospect.'' Political Science Quarterly 105.3 (1990): 435-454.
---. ''Socioeconomic Human Rights: The United Nations, the United States, and beyond.'' Human Rights Quarterly 4.4 (1982): 433-449.
---. ''U.S. Foreign Policy and Human Rights.'' Journal of Human Rights 1.4 (December 2002): 501-521.
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Fraser, Donald M. ''Freedom and Foreign Policy.'' Foreign Policy 26 (Spring 1977): 140-156.
---. ''Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy: Some Basic Questions Regarding Principles and Practice.'' International Studies Quarterly 23.2 (1979): 174-185.
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Frederickson, George H. The ''Spirit of Public Administration.'' San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1987.
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Griesgraber, Jo Marie. ''Implementation by Carter Administration of Human Rights Legislation Affecting Latin America.'' Diss. Georgetown University, 1983.
Gross, Bertram. ''Towards a Human Rights Century.'' Human Rights Quarterly 13.3 (August 1991): 387-395.
Grossman, Claudio. ''El futuro del sistema interamericano de derechos humanos [The Future of the Inter-American Human Rights System].'' Derechos Humanos, Relaciones Internacionales y Globalización [Human Rights, International Relations, and Globalization]. Ed. Joaquín González Ibáñez. N.p.: n.p., 2006.
---. Preface. ''The Prohibition of Torture and Inhuman Treatment in the Inter-American System: Handbook for Victims and their Advocates.'' By Claudia Martin and Diego Rodríguez Pinzón. N.p.: OMCT (World Organisation Against Torture), 2006. Vol. 2 of the OMCT Handbook Series.
---. Prólogo [Prologue]. ''Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos [International Human Rights Law].'' Compiled by Claudia Martin, Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón, and José A. Guevara B. México, D.F.: Universidad Iberoamericana, 2004.
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---. ''Is the Senate's Foreign Relations Research Worthwhile?'' American Behavioral Scientist 4.1 (1960): 21-24.
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Halperin, Morton, Arnold Kanter, and Priscilla Clapp. ''Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy.'' Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution Press, 1974, 2006.
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''Human Rights in United States and United Kingdom Foreign Policy: A Colloquium.'' November 27-28, 1978, Palace of Westminster. New York: American Association for the International Commission of Jurists, 1979.
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---. ''The International Human Rights Movement: Part of the Problem?'' Harvard Human Rights Journal 15 (Spring 2002): 101-126.
---. ''Of War and Law.'' Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2006.
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---. ''Human Rights and the Foundations of American Democracy.'' World Affairs 144.3 (Winter 1981/82): 196-203.
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---. ''The National Security Constitution: Sharing Power After the Iran-Contra Affair.'' New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.
---. ''Why the President (Almost) Always Wins in Foreign Affairs: Lessons of the Iran- Contra Affair.'' Yale Law Journal 97.7 (1988): 1255-1342.
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Kornbluh, Peter. ''The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability.'' New York: New Press, 2003.
Krauss, Gregory. ''Impacting Foreign Policy as a Mid-Level Bureaucrat: The Diplomatic Career of George Lister.'' Thesis prepared for degree of Masters in Public Affairs, Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs. May 2007.
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---. ''The Stinger Missile and U.S. Intervention in Afghanistan.'' Political Science Quarterly 114.2 (Summer 1999): 219-263.
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''List of Assistant Secretaries of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, 1976-2001.'' State Department. 26 April 2006
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---. ''The Human Rights Cause: How We Can Help.'' Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, Virginia. 20 February 1990.
---. ''Human Rights, Our World's Best Chance.'' George Washington University, Washington, D.C. 5 February 1998.
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