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Article: Power and human rights: a post-Cold War dilemma.
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- March 1, 1995
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President Bill Clinton's team-up with the Haitian military and his acknowledgment last summer that trade sanctions would not hasten democracy's development in China are only the latest signs that America's human fights policy has collapsed. The signs of America's failure to achieve the policy's objectives appear everywhere: from the halls of power in defiant Beijing to the streets of Port-au-Prince, from the mountains of Bosnia to the tenant farms of rebellious Chiapas in southern Mexico. At least as important, the policy has antagonized or simply turned off numerous democratic countries, as well as endangered a broad range of U.S. strategic and economic interests in key ...