Routledge Research in Human Rights
The EU's Human Rights Dialogue with China: Quiet Diplomacy and its Limits
1st Edition
By Katrin Kinzelbach
April 21, 2016
The European Union uses a confidential, institutionalized Dialogue to raise human rights concerns with China, but little is publicly known about its set-up, its substance, its development over time and its impact. This book provides the first detailed reconstruction and assessment of the EU’s ...
Human Rights, Power and Civic Action: Comparative analyses of struggles for rights in developing societies
1st Edition
Edited
By Bård A. Andreassen, Gordon Crawford
September 11, 2014
Human Rights, Power and Civic Action examines the interrelationship between struggles for human rights and the dynamics of power, focusing on situations of poverty and oppression in developing countries. It is argued that the concept of power is a relatively neglected one in the study of ...
Human Rights and Foreign Aid: For Love or Money?
1st Edition
By Bethany Barratt
February 27, 2009
By trying to alleviate poverty abroad, foreign development assistance tries to meet, among other things, basic human needs, which some schools of thought classify as basic human rights. However, because development abroad has often been treated as a tool for the pursuit of donor interests, rather ...
Human Rights and US Foreign Policy
1st Edition
By Jan Hancock
February 27, 2009
This book analyzes the role of human rights in the foreign policy of the George W. Bush Administrations. References to human rights, freedom and democracy became prominent explanations for post-9/11 foreign policy, yet human rights have been neither impartially nor universally integrated into ...