Human rights and US foreign policy : prevarications and evasions

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    • Apodaca, Clair

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Human rights and US foreign policy : prevarications and evasions

Clair Apodaca

(Routledge studies in human rights / series editors, Mark Gibney, Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen and Bonny Ibhawoh)

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019

  • hbk.
  • pbk.

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Human rights and United States foreign policy

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Summary: "Human Rights and US Foreign Policy provides a comprehensive historical overview and analysis of the complex and often vexing problem of understanding the formation of U.S. human rights policy. The proper place of human rights and fundamental freedoms in U.S. foreign policy has long been debated among scholars, politicians, and the American public. The history of United States human rights policy unfolds as a series of prevarications that are the result of presidential preferences, along with the conflict and cooperation among bureaucratic actors. Since the inception of U.S. human rights policy, presidents have attempted to tell only part of the truth or to reformulate the truth by redefining the meaning of the terms human rights, democracy, or torture, for example. In this way, human rights policy has been about prevarication. While Human Rights and US Foreign Policy is a key text for students, it will appeal to all readers who will find in a single volume a historically informed, argument driven, a

Includes bibliographical references and index

収録内容

  • The battlefield of foreign aid as foreign policy
  • U.S. human rights policy during the Cold War : a historical overview
  • U.S. human rights policy in the post-Cold War era : a decade of lost opportunities
  • The prevaricator in chief : George W. Bush (2001-2009)
  • The prevaricator of change : Barack Obama (2009-2017)
  • A prevaricator who told the truth : Donald Trump (2017- )
  • The future of United States human rights policy

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