Title: Just Politics: Human Rights and the Foreign Policy of Great Powers (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication Date: 2008
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0801446333
ISBN 13: 9780801446337
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
Weight: 1027 grams

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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.

Walldorf sets out his case in detailed studies of British alliance relationships with the Ottoman Empire and Portugal in the nineteenth century and of U.S. partnerships with numerous countries―ranging from South Africa, Turkey, Greece and El Salvador to Nicaragua, Chile, and Argentina―during the Cold War. He finds that illiberal behavior by partner states, varying degrees of pressure by nonstate actors, and legislative activism account for the decisions by democracies to terminate strategic partnerships for human rights reasons.

To demonstrate the central influence of humanitarian considerations and domestic politics in the most vital of strategic moments of great-power foreign policy, Walldorf argues that Western governments can and must integrate human rights into their foreign policies. Failure to take humanitarian concerns into account, he contends, will only damage their long-term strategic objectives.

About the Author

C. William Walldorf Jr. is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Wake Forest University.

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