Looking back at the evolution of international laws on human rights, the U.S., as a superpower after World War II, has changed its attitude toward related issues along with the different presidents in office.
Generally speaking, in the early post-war period, the U.S. was more active in human rights issues and declared it would uphold the “rules-based international order.” However, with the formation and disintegration of the bipolar pattern between the United States and the Soviet Union, during the Cold War and a long period after the end of it, human rights became a tool for the U.S. to interfere in the internal affairs
