Human Rights and Foreign Policy

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6410486
AutoresJack Donnelly (0000-0001-6260-9514, College of the Holy Cross, autor correspondente)
Ano1982
Volume34
Fascículo4
Páginas574-595
Data de publicação1982-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoWorld Politics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0043-8871 • E-ISSN: 1086-3338
EditoraProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/2010336
OpenAlexW2164715160
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas16
Referências citadas16

Five recent books reveal the beginnings of important new work in conceptualizing the place of human rights concerns in national foreign policies. The moral force of claims of human rights requires that they be given serious consideration in foreign policy. Philosophical analysis also shows that categorical moral distinctions between personal (or civil and political) and economic and social rights must be abandoned. Any justifiable priority for one class of rights must rest on strategic or political, not conceptual or moral, grounds. Since human rights are only one of many foreign policy concerns, tradeoffs with other goals, interests, and values will be necessary. However, human rights and the national interest are often complementary. The “tradeoffs” actually made should be principled, instrumental decisions, rather than apparently ad hoc or cynical sacrifices of human rights

Foreign policy · Fundamental rights · Human rights · Intellectual property · International human rights law · Law and economics · Moral rights · Political science · Politics · Right to property · Sociology · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Law