it had to protect from justified attacks" from the East. In this respect the Cold War was used as an instrument for the US to excuse itself from supporting human rights on an international level. Indeed, because the US and the Soviet Union were the biggest security threat to each other, they were "security-interdependent" and therefore, the US commitment to pursuing human rights diplomacy was tempered by prudence as there was a commitment to order between the two superpowers, and if that broke down, it could result in nuclear war, the ultimate breach of human rights. In terms of the pluralist-solidarist debate, the US was a pluralist actor (pluralism tends to go hand in hand with realism). The fact that its commitment to human rights was tempered by prudence reflects the pluralist view that intervention may cause disorder.
             In X, by X, one particular issue of human rights in the Cold War that reflects US solidarist beliefs is the concept of what human
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