Aid Imperium: United States Foreign Policy and Human Rights in Post-Cold War Southeast Asia

The United States is the world's largest aid donor, and Aid Imperium provides the most comprehensive explanation of how US strategic assistance links to physical integrity rights outcomes in recipient countries. It highlights the active political agency of Global South states and actors as they negotiate and chart their political trajectories with the US as the core state.

Format: Hardback
Length: 328 pages
Publication date: 03 November 2021
Publisher: The University of Michigan Press

The United States, as the world's largest aid donor, has extended assistance to over 200 countries. Aid Imperium, a comprehensive book, employs global numerical data on US foreign aid and comparative historical analysis of America's post-Cold War foreign policies in Southeast Asia to unravel the intricate relationship between US strategic assistance and physical integrity rights outcomes in recipient countries. This study goes beyond previous quantitative studies by highlighting the active political agency of Global South states and actors as they navigate and shape their political trajectories with the United States as the dominant state in the international system. Drawing from a diverse range of theoretical insights from the humanities and social sciences, as well as a wealth of empirical documents, Aid Imperium offers a groundbreaking multidisciplinary exploration of how US foreign policy impacts state repression and physical integrity rights outcomes in Southeast Asia and the broader Global South.

The United States, as the world's largest aid donor, has extended assistance to over 200 countries. Aid Imperium, a comprehensive book, employs global numerical data on US foreign aid and comparative historical analysis of America's post-Cold War foreign policies in Southeast Asia to unravel the intricate relationship between US strategic assistance and physical integrity rights outcomes in recipient countries. This study goes beyond previous quantitative studies by highlighting the active political agency of Global South states and actors as they navigate and shape their political trajectories with the United States as the dominant state in the international system. Drawing from a diverse range of theoretical insights from the humanities and social sciences, as well as a wealth of empirical documents, Aid Imperium offers a groundbreaking multidisciplinary exploration of how US foreign policy impacts state repression and physical integrity rights outcomes in Southeast Asia and the broader Global South.

The United States, as the world's largest aid donor, has extended assistance to over 200 countries. Aid Imperium, a comprehensive book, employs global numerical data on US foreign aid and comparative historical analysis of America's post-Cold War foreign policies in Southeast Asia to unravel the intricate relationship between US strategic assistance and physical integrity rights outcomes in recipient countries. This study goes beyond previous quantitative studies by highlighting the active political agency of Global South states and actors as they navigate and shape their political trajectories with the United States as the dominant state in the international system. Drawing from a diverse range of theoretical insights from the humanities and social sciences, as well as a wealth of empirical documents, Aid Imperium offers a groundbreaking multidisciplinary exploration of how US foreign policy impacts state repression and physical integrity rights outcomes in Southeast Asia and the broader Global South.

Weight: 634g
Dimension: 157 x 236 x 26 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780472132782