THE FIRST HUMAN RIGHT: RELIGIOUS LIBERTY AND THE AMERICAN DIPLOMATIC TRADITION

Andrew Preston

The Review of Faith & International Affairs, 2013, vol. 11, issue 1, 9-14

Abstract: Although presidential administrations have promoted and protected religious liberty abroad fitfully and inconsistently, the freedom of religion has long been seen as both a symptom of, and a cure for, tensions within the United States' relations with the wider world. In keeping with a faith-inflected version of democratic peace theory, many US foreign policy makers have perceived the absence of religious liberty in foreign countries as a warning sign that such countries will behave aggressively. The clearest expression of this worldview came during what was perhaps America's gravest foreign policy challenge: the world crisis of the late 1930s and the outbreak of World War II.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/15570274.2012.760978

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