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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