Toward Robust Religious Liberty
Joshua White Tuesday, 6 July 2010
American foreign policy realists have long since wearied of the insistence that human rights ought to form a vital part of U.S. national security policy. These rights, and those who advocate for them, typically sit at the margin of foreign policy making, no less in liberal internationalist administrations than those which have prioritized great power politics. Yet even in the pantheon of oft-neglected human rights issues, international religious freedom has been doubly marginalized, seen within the foreign policy establishment not only as a subject that unnecessarily complicates delicate bilateral relations, but one that is intrinsically outside the purview of the state's secular policy objectives.
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