Re-inventing the Future: Linkages between Human Rights, Foreign Policy and Regional Integration:

Abstract

This paper raises questions concerning the emerging trends of regional and international relations. In this endeavour, it examines new insights from traditional perspectives. The paper explores the outer contours of the conceptual linkages between human rights, foreign policy and regional integration in the East African context. Its central argument is that the major debates in the discipline of international relations a re ultimatelycontroversies about its theoretical basis.

Key Words: international relations, human rights, foreign policy, regional integration, East Africa.