Human Rights and Foreign Aid

This book examines the role played by human rights in foreign policy and the determinants of foreign aid, documenting patterns in the relationships between trade, domestic politics and aid.

Bethany Barratt is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Roosevelt University, Illinois, USA

Introduction: The 'Rights Way' in Foreign Policy? 1. The Role of Human Rights in Foreign Policy 2. Development Assistance: From Means to End 3. Methodology: Means, not End 4. The Global Context: Cross-National Aid Patterns 1980-2004 5. Leadership out of Obligation: British Development Assistance and Human Rights 6. Neither Here nor There?: Canadian Development Assistance and Human Rights 7. 'Inherited from History and Geography': Australian Development Assistance and Human Rights 8. Context and Consideration: Three other Donor States 9. Developing a 'Rights Way': Conclusions, Implications and Possibilities