Woodrow Wilson revisited

Human rights discourse in the foreign policy of the George W. Bush Administration

Bibliographic Data

ID6061200
AuthorsJan Hancock (Cape Breton University, Nova Scotia, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume16
Issue1
Pages57-76
Publication date2010-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Journal of International Relations (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1354-0661 • E-ISSN: 1460-3713
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1354066109344007
OpenAlexW2125564313
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited34

The George W. Bush Administrations presented foreign policy in terms of universal liberal values, including human rights. This has led to a number of scholastic comparisons being drawn with the foreign policy of Woodrow Wilson. This article seeks to contribute to this debate by identifying and accounting for three internal rules common to the human rights discourse expressed by the Wilson and Bush Administrations. Bush is argued to indeed be an inheritor of the Wilsonian legacy but not because the Administrations were characterized by the naive advocacy of idealistic values. Instead, human rights have been discursively co-opted by both Presidents as a technique of governance in the sense of producing reality by insisting on one specific interpretation of identities and intents

Corporate governance · Economics · Foreign policy · Human rights · Law and economics · Management · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · International Law and Human Rights · Law · Philosophy · Public Administration

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