Foreign Policy in Transition? Human Rights, Democracy, and U.S. Arms Exports.
During the Cold War, U.S. foreign policy was dominated by the strategic goal to contain Communism. Human rights and democracy were of secondary importance. In the post-Cold War period, the promotion of human rights and democracy as foreign policy concerns rose in prominence. In the spirit of Andrew...
| Publicado en: | International Studies Quarterly Vol. 49; no. 4; pp. 647 - 669 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Dec2005
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