Aid imperium : United States foreign policy and human rights in post-Cold War Southeast Asia / Salvador Santino Fulo Regilme, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Regilme, Salvador Santino F., Jr., author.

Series:

Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies series

Weiser Center for emerging democracies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--Southeast Asia.

Human rights.

History.

Economic assistance, American.

Southeast Asia.

Economic assistance, American--Southeast Asia.

Diplomatic relations.

United States--Foreign relations--Southeast Asia.

United States.

International relations.

Southeast Asia--Foreign relations--United States.

Southeast Asia--History--20th century.

Southeast Asia--History--21st century.

Physical Description:

xiv, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2021.

Summary:

Does foreign aid promote human rights? As the world's largest aid donor, the United States has provided foreign assistance to more than 200 countries. Deploying global numerical data on US foreign aid and comparative historical analysis of America's post-Cold War foreign policies in Southeast Asia, Aid Imperium provides the most comprehensive explanation that links US strategic assistance to physical integrity rights outcomes in recipient countries, particularly in ways that previous quantitative studies have systematically ignored. The book innovatively highlights the active political agency of Global South states and actors as they negotiate and chart their political trajectories with the United States as the core state of the international system. Drawing from theoretical insights in the humanities and the social sciences as well as a wide range of empirical documents, Aid Imperium is the first multidisciplinary study to explain how US foreign policy affects state repression and physical integrity rights outcomes in Southeast Asia and the rest of the Global South.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: One. Introduction

Two. United States Aid Imperium and Human Rights

Three. Human Rights Renaissance in the Philippines, 1990s

Four. From the War on Terror to the Crisis in Arroyo's Strong Republic

Five. Overcoming the Human Rights Crisis: Reforms under Obama and Aquino

Six. Human Rights Renaissance in Thailand, 1990s

Seven. From the War on Terror to Thaksin's War on Drugs and Dark Influences

Eight. Conclusion: Patterns and Possibilities

Foreign Aid and Human Rights.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0472132784

9780472132782

OCLC:

1226763445

Publisher Number:

99989233551