Between Sanctions and Elections : Donors' Human Rights Performance

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Reviews human rights policies of individual donor governments and the European Union. Donor's practices are examined through a selection of precedent cases in three decades: Cuba, Rhodesia, South Africa, and Israel in the 1960s; Uganda, Chile, and Ethiopia in the 1970s; and Turkey, Indonesia, Burma, and China in the 1980s. Concludes that neither sanctions nor elections benefit human rights, because donors' practices have been slanted against vulnerable recipients, and undermine human rights protection by their reliance on external policing and sanctioning. For students and academics in foreign policy, international relations, and human rights, as well as those in government agencies and NGOs. Distributed by Books International. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.