ABSTRACT This article surveys the efforts of the South African state to respond to the reconfigured world that emerged after 1945. Focussed on those years around the adoption of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), it argues that South African governments and officials were well attuned to the rising threat of human rights. Drawing on South African archives, it demonstrates that representatives of late United Party and early apartheid era governments were insightful observers of the mortal danger universal human rights posed to the racialised ideological architecture which governed essentially all of the country’s politics and society. Paradoxically, the most avowed opponents of the new crusade for universal human rights perceived its significance with equal or greater acuity than those more enthusiastic about the nascent rights order.

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对“全新世界”感到绝望？南非遭遇战后人权理念

摘要 本文调查了南非国家为应对 1945 年之后出现的重构世界所做的努力。重点关注 1948 年《世界人权宣言》（UDHR）通过前后的那些年，它认为南非政府和官员是很好地适应了日益严重的人权威胁。借鉴南非的档案，它表明晚期统一党和早期种族隔离时代政府的代表是有见地的观察者，观察普遍人权对基本上支配该国所有政治和社会的种族化意识形态架构构成的致命危险。矛盾的是，