This text reviews human rights policies of individual donor governments and the European Union. Donors' practices are examined through a selection of cases in each decade: Cuba, Rhodesia, South Africa and Israel in the 1960s; Uganda, Chile and Ethiopia in the 1970s; and Turkey, Indonesia, Burma and Chile in the 1980s. Electoralism is discussed as a recent complement to continued punitiveness. The book concludes that neither sanctions nor elections...