Introduction

From the outset of this administration, President Joe Biden and his Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken have said time and again that human rights is at the center of their foreign policy. This was intended to be a shift, not only from the Trump administration, which openly dismissed values-based foreign policy, but also from a history of US foreign policy that has long overlooked human rights. But as Biden's promise shift really played out, we're delving into what it would mean to put human rights at thecenter of US foreign Policy. Our guests to discuss this are Sarah Yeager, the Washington Director, at Human Rights Watch; Stephen Feldstein, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for