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Global Good Samaritans - Human Rights as Foreign Policy (Hardcover)
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Global Good Samaritans - Human Rights as Foreign Policy (Hardcover)
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In a troubled world where millions die at the hands of their own
governments and societies, some states risk their citizens' lives,
considerable portions of their national budgets, and repercussions
from opposing states to protect helpless foreigners. Dozens of
Canadian peacekeepers have died in Afghanistan defending
humanitarian reconstruction in a shattered faraway land with no
ties to their own. Each year, Sweden contributes over $3 billion to
aid the world's poorest citizens and struggling democracies, asking
nothing in return. And, a generation ago, Costa Rica defied U.S.
power to broker a peace accord that ended civil wars in three
neighboring countries--and has now joined with principled peers
like South Africa to support the United Nations' International
Criminal Court, despite U.S. pressure and aid cuts. Hundreds of
thousands of refugees are alive today because they have been
sheltered by one of these nations.
Global Good Samaritans looks at the reasons why and how some
states promote human rights internationally, arguing that
humanitarian internationalism is more than episodic altruism--it is
a pattern of persistent principled politics. Human rights as a
principled foreign policy defies the realist prediction of
untrammeled pursuit of national interest, and suggests the utility
of constructivist approaches that investigate the role of ideas,
identities, and influences on state action. Brysk shows how a
diverse set of democratic middle powers, inspired by visionary
leaders and strong civil societies, came to see the linkage between
their long-term interest and the common good. She concludes that
state promotion of global human rights may be an option for many
more membersof the international community and that the
international human rights regime can be strengthened at the
interstate level, alongside social movement campaigns and the
struggle for the democratization of global governance.
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