这本书对人权话语在美国外交政策中的作用进行了新颖的描述。这本书分析了美国国务院关于人权实践的年度国别报告，将其作为垄断手段，更重要的是，将人权议程的具体框架合法化，以推进美国外交政策。考虑到美国在全球的主导影响力，美国议程偏离既定的国际人权标准具有非常严重的影响。此外，最近，报告增加了关于“腐败”作为人权问题的单独章节。“腐败”从一开始就是一个有争议的概念，它被狭隘地理解为一个公共部门问题，主要在所谓的发展中国家和转型期国家盛行并颠覆。这本书展示了最近的包容如何最终服务于美国的全球新自由主义帝国主义议程，并成为国际组织中的霸权主义话语。
Human Rights, Imperialism, and Corruption in US Foreign Policy
This book provides a novel account of the role of human rights discourse in the US foreign policy. The book analyses the US State Department’s Annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices as a means to monopolise and, more importantly, legitimise a specific framing of the human rights agenda to further US foreign policy. The US agenda’s deviation from established international human rights standards has very serious implications considering the preponderant global influence exercised by the US. Furthermore, more recently, the reports have added a separate section on “corruption” as a human rights issue. “Corruption”, a controversial concept from the outset, is understood in a narrow way as a public sector issue that largely prevails in and subverts the so-called developing and transition countries. This book shows how this recent inclusion ultimately serves the US global neoliberal imperialist agenda and becomes the hegemonic discourse in international organisations.
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