%0 Journal Article
%T The place of human rights in the foreign policy of Cameron¡¯s conservatives: Sceptics or enthusiasts?
%A Matt Beech
%A Peter Munce
%J The British Journal of Politics and International Relations
%@ 1467-856X
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1369148118819066
%X The purpose of this article is to explain the place of human rights in the foreign policy thinking of David Cameron¡¯s Conservatives (2005¨C2016). The article asks three interrelated questions: First, what role has human rights come to acquire in international political discourse? Second, did the Conservative Party¡¯s view on the place of human rights result in a change to their approach to foreign policy on humanitarian intervention? Third, to what extent was there a tension between increasing scepticism towards the Human Rights Act and the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights and the Conservative Party¡¯s approach to foreign policy? The authors employ a mixed methodological approach which combines hermeneutic textual analysis of speeches from leading Conservatives with semi-structured, elite interview material from four former Conservative Foreign Secretaries
%K conservative party
%K David Cameron
%K ECHR
%K foreign policy
%K human rights
%K humanitarian intervention
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1369148118819066