Barratt - Human Rights and Foreign Aid

1 Human Rights and US Foreign Policy

Jan Hancock

2 Human Rights and Foreign Aid

For love or money?

Bethany Barratt

LONDON AND NEW YORK

In the course of writing this book I have learned a lot about generosity. This book would not exist without the kindness and talent of countless people.

First, Heidi Bagtazo, Harriet Brinton and Amelia McLaurin at Routledge have been boundlessly supportive and patient.

My colleagues have been extremely generous with their time and expertise. My dissertation chair, Scott Gartner, who has done excellent work primarily in the field of conflict studies and the domestic determinants of international behavior, spent hours listening and thinking about issues of development and human rights during the course of my graduate work at the University of California, Davis. My work is incalculably the better for the close and critical reading of various components by David Black, Sabine Carey, Mark Gibney, Joanne Gowa, Rhoda Howard-Hassmann, Pat James, Leslie Johns, Brian Lai, Carol Lancaster, Todd Landman, David Morrison, Marc OReilly, Steve Poe, Richard Taylor, Jenifer Whitten-Woodring, and four anonymous reviewers for Routledge. Invaluable data assistance was provided by Doug Bond and Joe Bond of the PONSACS project.

Earlier versions of this work were presented at meetings of several professional associations, including the Journeys in World Politics Workshop at the University of Iowa, the American Political Science Association, the International Studies Association and the Midwest Political Science Association. Numerous discussants and audience members there afforded invaluable insights.

Excellent research assistance was provided by Wendy Bohan and Ron Fried-man. My friend Therese Boling supplied similarly superlative research assistance at several stages, along with unflagging support and enthusiasm.

Tireless staff at DfID, CIDA and AusAID have been extremely generous toward a nosy and persistent researcher. Many have given boundlessly of their time, effort, good humor and tour-guiding skills. Richard Ball and Alex Carrasco, as well as the entire information management section of the Asia branch at CIDA, were very generous with their time and their scanners. Steve Taylor at AusAID went from being my email sparring partner to being my friend and fellow kangaroo-seeker in Canberra. Richard Sharp at DfID had the dubious distinction of being the first person at any of the agencies to answer my repeated requests for access to information. Without my friends David Barker and Richard Taylor at DfID, my archival research would have been much more difficult, and infinitely less fun.

NGO staff have been tireless in answering questions and reaffirming the importance of this work, chief among them Andre Frankovitz at HRCA and Tim OConnor at Aidwatch.

Despite the best efforts of these and many other fine people, the work which follows retains a host of imperfections, the responsibility for which is entirely my own.

My undergraduate advisor at Duke, Ole Holsti, has not read this work but has been an invaluable mentor in my career and my life for the past 15 years.

Final and most important thanks go to my colleague and ever-patient partner, Christian Erickson.

As this book was in production, one of the founders of quantitative human rights scholarship passed away suddenly. Steve Poe was not only at the forefront of research in the field, but was among the kindest and most intellectually generous colleagues I have ever met. He has left a great hole in our community, and is sorely missed.