Human rights and U.S. foreign policy
Subtitle: principles and applications
Contributors: MacLean, Douglas, eds
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Lexington, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780669043266
Subjects: Development aid; International law; Human rights; Politics
Description: Recent human rights provisions in U.S. law governing foreign policy.

Part I. Background : the new initiative:

1. A new Administration's new policy : the rise to power of human

Rights, by Mark L. Schneider.

2. Human rights and foreign aid : forging an unbreakable link, by

Part II. Principles : the nature and justification of human

3. Human rights and foreign assistance programs, by Hugo Adams Bedau.

4. Human rights and social justice, by Charles R. Beitz.

5. Rights in the light of duties, by Henry Shue.

6. Human rights as a neutral concern, by Thomas M. Scanlon.

7. Constraints, goals, and moralism in foreign policy, by Douglas MacLean.

Part III. Principles : international issues:

8. Domestic jurisdiction, intervention, and human rights : the

International law perspective, by Thomas Buergenthal.

9. The ethics of intervention : two normative traditions, by J. Bryan

10. Human rights and intevention, by Mark R. Wicclair.

Part IV. Applications : information and interpretation:

11." ... in the national interest", by Peter G. Brown.

12. Monitoring human rights violations : how good is the information? by

13. Human rights violations and U.S. foreign assistance : the

Latin American connection, by William L. Wipfler.

Part V. Applications : problems of implementing a human rights

14. Can a human rights policy be consistent? by Abraham M. Sirkin.

15. Security assistance in perspective, by Howard M. Fish.

16. Human rights in the Philippines and U.S. responsibility, by

17. Arms sales and human rights : the case of South Korea, by

18. Arms sales and human rights : the case of Iran, by Richard W. Cottam.
Notes: Contents:

Introduction.

Tom Harkin.

Rights:

Hehir.

John Salzberg.

Policy:

Richard P. Claude.

Jerome A. Cohen