Environmental human rights: power, ethics, and law
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In: Routledge Research in Human Rights v.2
In: Routledge research in human rights, 1
This book analyzes the role of human rights in the foreign policy of the George W. Bush Administrations.
In: Review of international studies: RIS, Band 37, Heft 2, S. 805-823
ISSN: 0260-2105
World Affairs Online
In: Review of international studies: RIS, Band 37, Heft 2
ISSN: 1469-9044
This article examines the human rights claims made by the George W. Bush Administrations of their post 9/11 foreign and security policy. Two common scholastic explanations of this narrative are evaluated: (i) that human rights constitute, at least in part, independent foreign policy goals and; (ii) that the human rights claims of policymakers can be dismissed as hypocritical rhetoric. The article informs and progresses this debate by revisiting the works of the early twentieth century political culture theorists Gabriel Almond, Graham Wallas and Edward Bernays. The article details the consistent use of a human rights narrative by administration officials as a technique of political discipline. The article identifies five linguistic mechanisms through which this technique of discipline was made manifest in practice. The article thereby explains how a human rights narrative was employed as an instrument to inculcate, rather than describe, reality. Adapted from the source document.
In: Review of international studies: RIS, Band 37, Heft 2, S. 805-823
ISSN: 1469-9044
AbstractThis article examines the human rights claims made by the George W. Bush Administrations of their post 9/11 foreign and security policy. Two common scholastic explanations of this narrative are evaluated: (i) that human rights constitute, at least in part, independent foreign policy goals and; (ii) that the human rights claims of policymakers can be dismissed as hypocritical rhetoric. The article informs and progresses this debate by revisiting the works of the early twentieth century political culture theorists Gabriel Almond, Graham Wallas and Edward Bernays. The article details the consistent use of a human rights narrative by administration officials as a technique of political discipline. The article identifies five linguistic mechanisms through which this technique of discipline was made manifest in practice. The article thereby explains how a human rights narrative was employed as an instrument to inculcate, rather than describe, reality.
In: European journal of international relations, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 57-76
ISSN: 1460-3713
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.
In: European journal of international relations, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 57-76
ISSN: 1354-0661
World Affairs Online
In: Review of international studies: RIS, Band 37, Heft 2, S. 805-824
ISSN: 0260-2105
In: Capitalism, nature, socialism: CNS ; a journal of socialist ecology, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 91-108
ISSN: 1548-3290
In: Capitalism, nature, socialism: CNS ; a journal of socialist ecology, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 91-108
ISSN: 1045-5752
In: Environmental politics, Band 14, Heft 5, S. 720-721
ISSN: 0964-4016
In: International journal of human rights, Band 2, Heft 3, S. 1-21
ISSN: 1744-053X
In: International journal of human rights, Band 2, Heft 3, S. 1-21
ISSN: 1364-2987