To put it very generally, I think there are three camps on how we should organize our foreign policy today. Human rights fits differently into each one of these camps. That was out of vogue for a while at the end of the Cold War, but I think it' s coming back to a certain extent.
Human rights are very much of a sidelight, if anything, in that view.
The second group emphasizes economics above all. This is not surprising. And that's not wrong, because the United States has been in the position of having to compete in the global economy for some years now and there were real doubts about whether we were going to be able to do that. Had we not been able to do that, the welfare of huge numbers of American citizens would be seriously affected. The third vision is the global vision, and here is where human rights, the environment, population, and the great international change that's occurring is emphasized more than in the other two.