Understanding U.S. Human Rights Policy: A Paradoxical Legacy - Softcover

Apodaca, Clair

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415954231 ISBN 13: 9780415954235

Publisher: Routledge, 2006

Synopsis

This book provides a comprehensive historical overview and analysis of the complex and often vexing problem of understanding the formation of US human rights policy over the past thirty-five years, a period during which concern for human rights became a major factor in foreign policy decision-making.

Clair Apodaca demonstrates that the history of American human rights policy is a series of different paradoxes that change depending on the presidential administration, showing that far from immobilizing the progression of a genuine and functioning human rights policy, these paradoxes have actually helped to improve the human rights protections over the years. Readers will find in a single volume a historically informed, argument driven account of the erratic evolution of US human rights policy since the Nixon administration.

Understanding U.S. Human Rights Policy will be an essential supplement in courses on human rights, foreign policy analysis and decision-making, and the history of US foreign policy.

About this title

About the Author

Clair Apodaca is Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations at Florida International University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415954231
• ISBN 13: 9780415954235
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 252