Shame is an emotion that is the cornerstone of International Relations (IR) human rights
scholarship but remains undertheorized from an explicitly emotional perspective. Given the …

International actors at times seek to help bring peace, democracy, and human rights. Studies
of how international actors help enforce political bargains between incumbent governments …

How do the human rights practices abroad affect decisions about the allocation of foreign
aid? This article provides a new approach to this long-standing question. We bring donor …

Most research on private governance examines the design and negotiation of particular
initiatives or their operation and effectiveness once established, with relatively little work on …

How can information campaigns of nongovernmental human rights organizations (HROs) to
“name and shame” human rights violators improve human rights conditions? Is the effect …

International 'naming and shaming'campaigns rely on domestic civil society organizations
(CSOs) for information on local human rights conditions. To stop this flow of information …

Governments have increasingly adopted laws restricting the activities of international non-
governmental organizations INGOs within their borders. Such laws are often intended to …

Do public condemnations by the United Nations human rights bodies lead to foreign direct
investment (FDI) loss for abusive regimes? The Human Rights Commission and later …

Conventional thinking proposes that naming and shaming pushes publics to oppose
government policies that are claimed to violate human rights. We explore the extent to which …

Scholars contend that embedding human rights conditionality in trade agreements can
improve human rights. We argue that human rights interests may collide with trade …