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Dethroning Prince Charming: Problematizing Human Rights In The World’S Last Shangri-La, Mende Thuji Yangden
Dethroning Prince Charming: Problematizing Human Rights In The World’S Last Shangri-La, Mende Thuji Yangden
International Affairs Senior Theses
In the 21st century universalization of Human Rights has appeared as a contested concept. The Savage, Victim, Savior (SVS) metaphor has become a common rhetoric that universalization of human rights has promoted. The savage is represented as a non western nation-state, the victims are portrayed as minorities, women, children etc, and the saviors are usually the western nations or international institutions such as the UN, HRW, Amnesty International. The SVS complex leads to a one-dimensional, incomplete, racist, neo colonial and bias standpoint. It limits our understanding of the actual issue. Ethnic cleansing is an instance where universalization of human rights …
Neoliberalism: The Genesis Of The Central American Security Crisis, Camila Meléndez
Neoliberalism: The Genesis Of The Central American Security Crisis, Camila Meléndez
International Affairs Senior Theses
Neoliberalism has been for long a popular subject in the assessment of development models and their effect in emerging and developing countries. The study of this model’s implications has remained however, focused to the realities and context of the 1990s disregarding the undeniable and interminable effect of rigid, universal, uni-dimensional and out-of context set of policies. This work therefore expands the study of neoliberalism assessing its political, economic and social implications and continuous role in the current crisis in the Central American countries. This work achieves the exploration of the neoliberalism-insecurity nexus by studying the conceptual framework of security, the …