Overview
- Examines the role of human rights discourse in the imperialist US foreign policy
- Provides a sophisticated and original contribution to the hegemonic human rights discourse
- Offers a novel reading of the intersection of corruption as a human rights issue with neoliberalism
Part of the book series: Human Rights Interventions (HURIIN)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book provides a novel account of the role of human rights discourse in the US foreign policy. The book analyses the US State Department’s Annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices as a means to monopolise and, more importantly, legitimise a specific framing of the human rights agenda to further US foreign policy. The US agenda’s deviation from established international human rights standards has very serious implications considering the preponderant global influence exercised by the US. Furthermore, more recently, the reports have added a separate section on "corruption" as a human rights issue. “Corruption”, a controversial concept from the outset, is understood in a narrow way as a public sector issue that largely prevails in and subverts the so-called developing and transition countries. This book shows how this recent inclusion ultimately serves the US global neoliberal imperialist agenda and becomes the hegemonic discourse in international organisations.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. Ilia Xypolia is Lecturer at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Aberdeen, UK, and the reviews editor for the Journal of Global Faultlines.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Human Rights, Imperialism, and Corruption in US Foreign Policy
Authors: Ilia Xypolia
Series Title: Human Rights Interventions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99815-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99814-1Published: 25 April 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-99815-8Published: 24 April 2022
Series ISSN: 2946-5117
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5125
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 155
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Relations Theory