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- ISBN 9780472132782
- Weight: 333g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 03 Nov 2021
- Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Salvador Santino Fulo Regilme Jr. is a tenured Associate Professor of International Relations based at the History and International Studies Section, Institute of History, Leiden University in the Netherlands.
