US Foreign Policy Directions on Human Rights Issues during the George W. Bush and Barack Obama Eras

Document Type : Original Article

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International Political Relations Researcher - Faculty of Economics and Political Science - Alexandria University

Abstract

The foreign policy of all American presidents witnessed the necessity of emphasizing the values ​​of human rights and promoting the file externally, especially in the Middle East for the purpose of implementing administrative and political reform processes, by providing economic aid and grants to developing countries through civil society organizations and exporting the human rights file to them in order to achieve their goals nationalism.
As a result of the events of September 11, this situation changed radically, when the United States concluded that the prevailing political, cultural and economic conditions were responsible for the production of terrorism in the Arab countries. In imposing the values ​​of democracy and the issue of democratization in the world in general, and the countries of the Middle East in particular, and this is what made the United States try to impose its vision of democracy on the world Which made it rule out all threats and challenges, and then generated an impulse in the White House to change these situations, especially the political one. Consequently, spreading the values ​​of human rights and democracy in the Middle East in general, and the Arab world in particular, has become one of the declared political goals of the American administration in the region. The best example of this is the attempt to make Iraq a model for democratic transformation to be emulated in the Middle East.

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