The Role of Human Rights in Foreign Policy

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Peter R. Baehr, Monique Castermans-Holleman

   Pages 1-22

3. Contemporary Issues

   • Peter R. Baehr, Monique Castermans-Holleman

   Pages 23-44

4. Dilemmas of Foreign Policy

   • Peter R. Baehr, Monique Castermans-Holleman

   Pages 45-68

5. Policy Instruments

   • Peter R. Baehr, Monique Castermans-Holleman

   Pages 69-88

6. Actors: States and Intergovernmental Organizations

   • Peter R. Baehr, Monique Castermans-Holleman

   Pages 89-114

7. Non-state Actors

   • Peter R. Baehr, Monique Castermans-Holleman

   Pages 115-128

8. Concluding Observations

   • Peter R. Baehr, Monique Castermans-Holleman

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9. Back Matter

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Governments use human rights both as a tool and as an objective of foreign policy. The Role of Human Rights in Foreign Policy analyses conflicting policy goals such as peace and security, economic relations and development co-operation. The use of diplomatic, economic and military means is discussed, together with the role of state actors, intergovernmental organizations and non-state actors.

• conflict
• foreign policy
• government
• human rights
• Policy

• Utrecht University, The Netherlands

  Peter R. Baehr, Monique Castermans-Holleman

PETER R. BAEHR is Honorary Professor of Human Rights and a former Director of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) at Utrecht University. He has served as Staff Director and later member of the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) in The Hague. He is a member of the Commission on Human Rights of the Netherlands Advisory Council on International Affairs (AIV). He has been Professor of International Relations at the University of Amsterdam and Professor of Human Rights and Foreign Policy at Leiden University.

MONIQUE CASTERMANS-HOLLEMAN is sometime Assistant Professor of Human Rights and Foreign Policy at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Her publications include Human Rights in the Foreign Policy of the Netherlands (2002, with Peter R. Baehr and Fred Grünfeld).

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