Strategic US Foreign Assistance

Callaway, Rhonda L.

doi:10.4324/9781315610979

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“…As Callaway and Matthews observe, the US continues to grant 'extensive amounts of foreign aid to countries with poor human rights records in the name of national security'. 43 Intuition suggests that at least some of the resources transferred will find their way towards coercive purposes-another dimension of the garrison state.…”

Section: Deriving Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Are US Foreign Policy Tools Effective in Improving Human Rights Conditions?

Choi¹,

James²

2017

The Chinese Journal of International Politics

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This is the first empirical study to evaluate, in combination, the relative impact of the US's four major foreign policy tools (i.e., military intervention, military assistance, economic sanctions, and economic assistance) on human rights conditions abroad. This study presents a Hegemonic Intervention Hypothesis, which cautions against US action to promote human rights, and a Coercion Hypothesis, which assesses punitive actions as likely to be more harmful than acts of assistance. Relying on a dataset of 144 countries for the years 1975-2005, this study finds that, contrary to Washington's stated desire to promote human rights, all forms of US foreign policy intervention are either neutral in effect or linked to increases in the level of state repression. Human Rights in the New Millennium International politics and foreign policy in the new millennium have witnessed a greater degree of human rights consciousness. Even the longstanding norm of sovereignty is evolving towards one of a more 'contingent' nature due to multiple factors, among which highprofile interventions intended to promote human rights play a key role. 1 Concerns about human rights are manifested particularly in the official US Department of State website. 2 Furthermore, the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labour claims that 'the United States uses a wide range of tools to advance a freedom agenda, including bilateral diplomacy, multilateral engagement, foreign assistance, reporting and public outreach, and

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Section: Deriving Hypothesesmentioning

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Are US Foreign Policy Tools Effective in Improving Human Rights Conditions?

Choi¹,

James²

2017

The Chinese Journal of International Politics

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“…Scholarly work focused on the impact of military aid on human rights has demonstrated that military aid is more harmful to human rights than other types of aid. 7 Also, some studies contend that its pervasive effect diminishes the positive impact of programs such as aid for democracy. 8 Similarly, research on U.S. drug policies toward Latin America has demonstrated that this aid is associated with violence 9 and the erosion of human rights.…”

Section: Previous Research On the Effects Of Military Aid On Human Rimentioning

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Understanding the Effect of Security Assistance on Human Rights: The Case of Plan Colombia

Fajardo-Heyward

2015

The Latin Americanist

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Existing large-N research argues that governments that rely on their citizens for their revenue are more accountable to their citizens and thus have more incentives to protect human rights. This argument predicts that other sources of revenue fail to provide such incentives. Due to this, governments that rely on alternative sources of revenue will experience poor human rights conditions. This article is aimed at exploring this expectation by looking at one particular type of alternative source of revenue: security assistance. According to the argument, security assistance should negatively impact human rights conditions due to its effect on governments' efforts to protect and respect human rights. This article uses the case of Plan Colombia to assess this argument. By looking at the way in which foreign assistance interacts with domestic institutions, the case suggest that the negative effect is caused by the erosion on checks and balances and, most importantly, by changes in civil-military relations.

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confidence: 99%

“…The acetaldehyde-ammonia trimer can be used to produce amines by hydrogenation [5,6] or as building block in organic synthesis [7]. Other reported applications include its use as scavenger for sulfhydryl compounds (thanks to its analogy to amines [4]) or as precursor for ammonia production [8].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%