Putting the Moral in 'Moral Hazard': Agency, Human Rights, and United States Foreign Security Force Development.

The article focuses on how an alliance of human rights advocates, including non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and members of the U.S. Congress, de-legitimated the common Cold War practice of entrusting illiberal, anti-communist agents with American arms and training. The Congressional-NGO alliance framed the risk of human rights abuse as the salient agency cost within the U.S. principal-agent relationship.