Morten B. Pedersen - Principled Engagement: Negotiating Human Rights in Repressive States

As an early anti-apartheid campaigner I was a very reluctant convert to any kind of dealing with repressive regimes. But experience with Myanmar and elsewhere has taught me that careful, selective engagement can advance human rights in the hardest of situations. The case studies and foreign policy and aid strategies analysed here deserve the attention of all serious-minded policymakers. Principled Engagement is intelligent, lucidly written and compelling.

Gareth Evans, Foreign Minister of Australia 198896, President of the International Crisis Group 200009, Chancellor of The Australian National University, Australia

Negotiating Human Rights in Repressive States

MORTEN B. PEDERSEN

DAVID KINLEY

First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge

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Principled engagement : negotiating human rights in repressive states / edited by Morten B. Pedersen and David Kinley.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4094-5538-7 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-1-3156-0214-1 (ebook) -- ISBN 978-1-3170-7590-5 (epub) 1. Human rights. 2. Discrimination--Law and legislation. 3. Civil rights. 4. Political persecution I. Pedersen, Morten B., editor of compilation. II. Kinley, David, lecturer in law, editor of compilation.

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