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Aid Imperium: United States Foreign Policy and Human Rights in Post-Cold War Southeast Asia
Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr.
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Does foreign aid promote human rights? As the world's largest aid donor, the United States has provided foreign assistance to more than 200 countries. Deploying global numerical data on US foreign aid and comparative historical analysis of America's post–Cold War foreign policies in Southeast Asia, Aid Imperium provides the most comprehensive explanation that links US strategic assistance to physical integrity rights outcomes in recipient countries, particularly in ways that previous quantitative studies have systematically ignored. The book innovatively highlights the active political agency of Global South states and actors as they negotiate and chart their political trajectories with the United States as the core state of the international system. Drawing from theoretical insights in the humanities and the social sciences as well as a wide range of empirical documents, Aid Imperium is the first multidisciplinary study to explain how US foreign policy affects state repression and physical integrity rights outcomes in Southeast Asia and the rest of the Global South.
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Illustrations
Abbreviations
One. Introduction
Two. United States Aid Imperium and Human Rights
Three. Human Rights Renaissance in the Philippines, 1990s
Four. From the War on Terror to the Crisis in Arroyo’s Strong Republic
Five. Overcoming the Human Rights Crisis
Six. Human Rights Renaissance in Thailand, 1990s
Seven. From the War on Terror to Thaksin’s War on Drugs and Dark Influences
Fig. 1.3. US Military Assistance to the Philippines and Thailand, 1992–2015 (constant 2015 USD). The data used to create this figure is available on our Fulcrum platform at https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12036762.cmp.17
Fig. 1.4. Civilian Deaths Caused by State Agents in the Philippines and Thailand, 1989–2016. The data used to create this figure is available on our Fulcrum platform at https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12036762.cmp.17
Fig. 3.1. Annual Number of Political Killings per Year in the Philippines (approximate), per Presidential Administration. The data used to create this figure is available on our Fulcrum platform at https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12036762.cmp.17
Fig. 3.3. US Foreign Aid to the Philippines, 1986–2000 (constant 2016 USD). The data used to create this figure is available on our Fulcrum platform at https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12036762.cmp.17
Fig. 4.1. US Military and Economic Aid to the Philippines, 1992–2010 (constant 2016 USD). The data used to create this figure is available on our Fulcrum platform at https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12036762.cmp.17
Fig. 4.2. Geographic Location of Civilian Deaths due to State-Based Violence in the Philippines, 2001–2010. (Data from Uppsala Conflict Database. Map of the Philippines by Michael Gonzalez, via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BlankMap-Philippines.png)
Fig. 5.2. US Foreign Aid to the Philippines, 2000–2016 (in constant 2016 USD). The data used to create this figure is available on our Fulcrum platform at https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12036762.cmp.17