Perkins, Richard 
ORCID: 0000-0002-4963-6494 and Neumayer, Eric ORCID: 0000-0003-2719-7563
(2010)
The organized hypocrisy of ethical foreign policy: human rights, democracy and Western arms sales.
Geoforum, 41 (2).
pp. 247-256.
ISSN 0016-7185
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Abstract
Over the past two decades, Western political leaders have scripted a more ethical foreign policy, wherein far greater weight is given to protecting the rights and freedoms of extra-territorial citizens. Using the example of arms exports to developing countries, the present paper exposes the organized hypocrisy underlying countries’ self-declared ethical turn. We show that the major Western arms supplying states – France, Germany, the UK and the US – have generally not exercised export controls so as to discriminate against human rights abusing or autocratic countries during the post-Cold War period. Rather, we uncover ongoing territorial egoism, in that arms have been exported to countries which serve supplying states’ domestic economic and security interests.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescriptio... |
| Additional Information: | © 2009 Elsevier |
| Divisions: | Geography & Environment |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Apr 2010 13:22 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Nov 2024 08:12 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/27735 |
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