This book analyzes the role of human rights in the foreign policy
of the George W. Bush Administrations.
References to human rights, freedom and democracy became
prominent explanations for post-9/11 foreign policy, yet human
rights have been neither impartially nor universally integrated
into decision-making. Jan Hancock addresses this apparent paradox
by considering three distinct explanations. The first position
holds that human rights form a constitutive foreign policy goal,
the second that evident double standards refute the first
perspective. This book seeks to progress beyond this familiar
discussion by employing a Foucaultian method of discourse analysis
to suggest a third explanation. Through this analysis, the author
examines how a discourse of human rights has been artificially
produced and implemented in the presentation of US foreign policy.
This illuminating study builds on a wealth of primary source
evidence from human rights organizations to document the
contradictions between the claims and practice of human rights made
by the Bush Administrations, as well as the political significance
of denying this disjuncture.
Human Rights and US Foreign Policy will be of interest to
advanced students and researchers of US foreign policy, human
rights, international relations and security studies.
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