Governments use human rights both as a tool and as an objective of foreign policy. The Role of Human Rights in Foreign Policy analyses conflicting policy goals

International human rights issues perpetually highlight the tension between political interest and idealism. Over the last fifty years, the United States has la

Although our era is marked by human rights rhetoric, human wrongs continue to be committed with impunity, and the idea of human rights is becoming impoverished.

In Freedom on the Offensive, William Michael Schmidli illuminates how the Reagan administration's embrace of democracy promotion was a defining development in U

Demonstrates how the Reagan administration and members of Congress shaped US human rights policy in the late Cold War.