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38 Hum. Rts. Q. 1070 (2016)
United States Military Assistance and Human Rights

handle is hein.journals/hurq38 and id is 1090 raw text is: HUMAN RIGHTS QUARTERLY United States Military Assistance and Human Rights Wayne Sandholtz* ABSTRACT Since the 1970s, US law has made military assistance conditional on the human rights record of recipient governments. The prospect of receiving US military aid would, in principle, create an incentive for states to respect rights. This study assesses whether US military aid has exercised the hoped- for positive influence on human rights in recipient countries, a question for which no published research exists. The analysis of data from over 150 countries covering thirty years indicates that US military assistance is as- sociated with worse performance on human rights. I. INTRODUCTION Allocations of US military assistance must, by law, take into account the human rights performance of recipient governments. The idea underlying this requirement is that through its aid policies, the United States can pro- mote greater respect for human rights within countries that receive or hope to receive military assistance from the United States. In fact, the human rights reports that the State Department now issues annually came into be- ing because Congress required them, beginning in 1976, for every country proposed as a recipient of US security assistance. The expectation motivating US policy is that governments will avoid or reduce serious human rights Wayne Sandholtz holds the John A. McCone Chair in International Relations and is Profes- sor of International Relations and Law at the University of Southern California. His research focuses on the development, diffusion, and effects of international norms, including studies of corruption, women and globalization, wartime plundering, human rights treaties, and the International Criminal Court. Human Rights Quarterly 38 (2016) 1070-1101 © 2016 by Johns Hopkins University Press

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