Aid Imperium

United States Foreign Policy and Human Rights in Post-Cold War Southeast Asia
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-0-472-03927-2
Verlag: University of Michigan Press

Buch, Englisch, 308 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Does foreign aid promote human rights? As the world’s largest aid donor, the United States has provided foreign assistance to more than 200 countries. Deploying global numerical data on US foreign aid and comparative historical analysis of America’s post–Cold War foreign policies in Southeast Asia, Aid Imperium provides the most comprehensive explanation that links US strategic assistance to physical integrity rights outcomes in recipient countries, particularly in ways that previous quantitative studies have systematically ignored. The book innovatively highlights the active political agency of Global South states and actors as they negotiate and chart their political trajectories with the United States as the core state of the international system. Drawing from theoretical insights in the humanities and the social sciences as well as a wide range of empirical documents, Aid Imperium is the first multidisciplinary study to explain how US foreign policy affects state repression and physical integrity rights outcomes in Southeast Asia and the rest of the Global South.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1. Acknowledgements
- 2. List of Figures
- 3. List of Tables
- 4. Abbreviations
- 5. Introduction
- 6. United States Aid Imperium and Human Rights
- 7. Human Rights Renaissance in the Philippines, 1990s
- 8. From the War on Terror to the Crisis in Arroyo’s Strong Republic
- 9. Overcoming the Human Rights Crisis: Reforms under Obama and Aquino
- 10. Human Rights Renaissance in Thailand, 1990s
- 11. From the War on Terror to Thaksin’s War on Drugs and Dark Influences
- 12. Conclusion
- 13. Appendix
- 14. Bibliography
- 15. About the Author