The Role of Human Rights in Foreign Policy

M. Castermans-Holleman

ISBN 10: 1403904642 / ISBN 13: 9781403904645

Published by Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Role of Human Rights in Foreign Policy
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1403904642
• ISBN 13: 9781403904645
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 214W x 139H x 10D millimeters 214 millimeters width by 139 millimeters height by 10 millimeters depth
• Weight: 231 grams

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Synopsis

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 such as peace and security, economic relations and development co-operation. The use of diplomatic, economic and military means is discussed, together with the role of state actors, intergovernmental organizations and non-state actors.

About the Author

PETER R. BAEHR is Honorary Professor of Human Rights and a former Director of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) at Utrecht University. He has served as Staff Director and later member of the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) in The Hague. He is a member of the Commission on Human Rights of the Netherlands Advisory Council on International Affairs (AIV). He has been Professor of International Relations at the University of Amsterdam and Professor of Human Rights and Foreign Policy at Leiden University.

MONIQUE CASTERMANS-HOLLEMAN is sometime Assistant Professor of Human Rights and Foreign Policy at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Her publications include Human Rights in the Foreign Policy of the Netherlands (2002, with Peter R. Baehr and Fred Grünfeld).