Human Rights. Sovereignty. Hegemony: Peering into US Human Rights Diplomacy

Author: Hong Guoqi
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Publish Date: 2003-11-01
Features: The book focuses on three key points: human rights, sovereignty, and hegemony. It does not intend to excessively elaborate on the relationship among these three concepts from a theoretical perspective. Instead, it aims to explain the origins, historical development, and evolution of U.S. human rights diplomacy through a review of its historical trajectory, particularly through case studies of key target countries. By using historical facts, the book elucidates the channels, methods, and approaches of U.S. human rights diplomacy, summarizes its successes and failures, exposes its dilemmas, reveals how it uses the guise of "altruism" to achieve its "selfish" goals, and uncovers the hegemonic essence of its authoritarian politics.