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To what extent has the promotion of human rights constituted a principled pillar of U.S. foreign policy? Is the human rights agenda in U.S. foreign policy driven by moral universalism or strategic self-interest?

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Human Rights as Principle or Instrument: Interrogating the Moral–Strategic Dialectic in U.S. Foreign Policy The promotion of human rights has long occupied a prominent rhetorical and institutional position within the foreign policy discourse of the United States. From Woodrow Wilson’s liberal internationalism to the post–Cold War humanitarian interventions and contemporary democracy-promotion initiatives, successive American administrations … Continue reading To what extent has the promotion of human rights constituted a principled pillar of U.S. foreign policy? Is the human rights agenda in U.S. foreign policy driven by moral universalism or strategic self-interest?