Human Rights Foreign Policy: A Skeptical Perspective

The author critically reviews Czech human rights foreign policy (HRFP) and makes a conceptual distinction between three possible types of HRFP: pragmatic, neo-conservative, and cooperative. The article reviews Václav Havel’s neoconservative HRFP, discusses the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ attempt to transform the neoconservative HRFP to a more cooperative format, and concludes with a reflection on the impossibility of a credible HRFP.