Trading Disgraces: The influence of human rights trade agreement conditionality

• In Event: Political Change and Treaty Ratification

Brief Overview

We reexamine the argument that human rights trade conditionality has had a positive influence on human rights. We find that conditionality is ineffective at increasing respect for human rights because of the influence of vested domestic interests.

Authors

• Gray Barrett, Emory University

• David R. Davis, Emory University

• Eric Reinhardt, Emory University