Understanding U.S. Human Rights Policy

<p>This book provides a comprehensive historical overview and analysis of the complex and often vexing problem of understanding the formation of US human rights policy over the past thirty-five years a period during which concern for human rights became a major factor in foreign policy decision-making. </p><p>Clair Apodaca demonstrates that the history of American human rights policy is a series of different paradoxes that change depending on the presidential administration showing that far from immobilizing the progression of a genuine and functioning human rights policy these paradoxes have actually helped to improve the human rights protections over the years. Readers will find in a single volume a historically informed argument driven account of the erratic evolution of US human rights policy since the Nixon administration.<br><br><em>Understanding U.S. Human Rights Policy</em> will be an essential supplement in courses on human rights foreign policy analysis and decision-making and the history of US foreign policy.</p>