Describe the relationship between U.S. foreign policy and human rights. What are two policies used for promoting and regulating human rights abroad?

What will be an ideal response?

Answers should explain that the primary concern of U.S. foreign policy with regard to human rights relates to liberty and economic freedoms. Answers should discuss the ambivalence of a long-term U.S. stance on human rights, specifically with regard to socioeconomic equality as an element of individual liberty. Answers should also discuss the U.S. conception of human rights as freedom from any form of government that is not a democracy. Answers should further discuss policies such as foreign aid, trade, and membership in IGOs as favored plans for democratization to improve human rights. Finally, answers should consider the ambivalence and often-conflicting viewpoints of the United States in relation to global policies, such as between President George W. Bush, who viewed international institutions as a threat to U.S. sovereignty, and President Barack Obama, who sought to enhance U.S. enmeshment in the international system, discussed at the beginning of the chapter.