Competing concerns: balancing human rights and national security in US economic aid allocation

This paper theorizes that the effect of human rights violations on US economic aid is conditioned by the salience of US national security concerns. National security concerns will be more salient in situations where recipients contribute to maintaining US security and in temporal eras when the USA i...

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Main Author: Sandlin, Evan W. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2016
In: Human rights review
Year: 2016, Volume: 17, Issue: 4, Pages: 439-462
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Keywords:
Human Rights
Economic aid
US foreign aid
US foreign policy
National Security
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Summary:This paper theorizes that the effect of human rights violations on US economic aid is conditioned by the salience of US national security concerns. National security concerns will be more salient in situations where recipients contribute to maintaining US security and in temporal eras when the USA is perceived as being under increased external threat. As the relational and temporal salience of national security increases, any negative effect of human rights violations on US economic aid should decrease. I test this hypothesis by examining US economic aid allocations to states from 1977 to 2005. The results show that the salience of national security concerns present in the US-recipient relationship does condition the relationship between human rights violations and US economic aid. There are also significant differences between different temporal eras of US foreign aid allocation. Future work should address how conflicts between interests and values in US foreign policy are negotiated.
Item Description:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 460-462
Physical Description:Illustrationen
ISSN:1874-6306
DOI:10.1007/s12142-016-0426-2