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Foreign Policy as a framework for advancing the cause of human rights is an emerging scholarly interest in the Academy.This book demonstrates the challenges and limitations of using foreign policy as a framework to advance the cause of human rights.It explains the convoluted relationship between human rights and other foreign policy goals in the context of post 1991 US-Ethiopia relations. The writer argues that effective advancement of human rights using the foreign policy framework is not only limited to the choice of US foreign policy makers/diplomats but the domestic political context is also equally important.The author further argues that human rights is advanced in a way that serves the overall US strategic foreign policy.But it has been highly politicized as it is invested with claims of sovereignty, national interest, power politics and manipulation when it comes to the Ethiopian government. The book is particularly important as it brings out the human rights variable into the main discourse of diplomatic analysis of US-Ethiopia relations.It is, hence, interesting to human rights activists and students of International relations and Human rights.

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Seife Ayalew, got his Law degree at Mekelle University Faculty of Law and MA on Human rights at the Center for Human Rights in Addis Ababa University (AAU). Currently working as- Acting Manger and a Regional Coordinator for a project called Legal Literacy, Rights Advice and Information at the Center for Human rights (AAU).

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