Just politics
Subtitle: human rights and the foreign policy of great powers
By: C. William Walldorf, Jr.
Series: Cornell studies in security affairs
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780801446337
Subjects: Human rights; International relations; Alliances; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989; Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1837-1901
Description: "Many foreign policy analysts assume that elite policymakers in liberal democracies consistently ignore humanitarian norms when these norms interfere with commercial and strategic interests. Today's endorsement by Western governments of repressive regimes in countries from Kazakhstan to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia in the name of fighting terror only reinforces this opinion. In Just Politics, C. William Walldorf, Jr., challenges this conventional wisdom. arguing that human rights concerns have often led democratic great powers to sever vital strategic partnerships even when it has not been in their interest to do so."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : human rights and foreign policy; title: Humanitarianism and commitment termination; title: Suffering Christians in British-Ottoman relations; title: Torture and summary execution in U.S. Latin American relations; title: Apartheid in U.S. South African relations; title: Human rights and vital security; title: The implications of enforced humanitarian norms.