Perspective on US Human Rights Diplomacy

Author: Hong Guoqi
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Publish Date: 2003-11-01
Features: This book is the research outcome of the original National Education Commission's "Nineteen-Ninety-Five" Humanities and Social Sciences Research Planning Project, titled "Human Rights, Sovereignty, Hegemony - An Analysis of American Human Rights Diplomacy." The motivation to apply for and study this topic stemmed from a sense of responsibility among educators and the needs of teaching. Human rights issues involve knowledge from numerous disciplines such as law, political science, sociology, history, economics, and philosophy. American human rights diplomacy, in particular, is an extremely complex and sensitive issue involving the internal affairs, foreign policy, and international relations of the United States, with strong theoretical, practical, and policy implications. The book focuses on the three key points of human rights, sovereignty, and hegemony, without delving too deeply into theoretical explanations of their relationships. Instead, it aims to interpret the channels, methods, and approaches of American human rights diplomacy through a review of its origins and historical development, especially through case studies of key target countries. By using historical facts, the book analyzes the successes and failures of American human rights diplomacy, exposes its dilemmas, reveals how it uses the guise of "altruism" to achieve its self-interested goals, and uncovers the hegemonic essence of its policy of imposing power politics.