ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes the research that has been conducted on these issues to date, what has been learned and the goals that remain to be achieved. Research on human rights related topics has been published in the major journals of the political science discipline. The scholarly movement to study and promote human rights has grown and is quickly being institutionalized. Making prescriptions to policymakers by suggesting ways to decrease human rights abuses might increase respect for human dignity, if they were to be heeded. In demonstrating empirically that the US frequently aids human rights abusers, it is shown that this country fails to live up to its own standards, failing to act in accordance with its own laws. Research on other US policies, such as the granting of asylum by the US, has been given much less attention in empirical human rights research. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
