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Appealing To The Realist Nature Of The Problem: An Attempt To Find Common Ground, Eric K. Leonard
Appealing To The Realist Nature Of The Problem: An Attempt To Find Common Ground, Eric K. Leonard
Human Rights & Human Welfare
Whenever I teach my undergraduate course on human rights, I inevitably have one student who argues that state sovereignty trumps all and that states should act in their “national interest” in regards to issues where human rights and sovereignty clash. They usually continue the argument by stipulating that “human rights” are not defensible unless they are universally accepted, meaning contained in a universally ratified document (and they use the term “universal” literally), because all authority resides in the state. Thus, it is always an interesting discussion when we turn to the issue of migration, and more specifically, refugees.
Social Contract In A Borderless World, Daniel J. Graeber
Social Contract In A Borderless World, Daniel J. Graeber
Human Rights & Human Welfare
Addressing the American Political Science Association in 2000, the international relations theorist Robert Keohane of Princeton University noted that effective governance in a globalized world depends more on interstate cooperation and transnational networks than any type of world body. Keohane made the claim that the people and players in a globalized world stand to gain from the system through cooperation across borders and boundaries. Nevertheless, Keohane also observed that the actors may exploit interdependence in that system by transferring blame to others and that, although institutions may be essential, they can also be dangerous. So it is when confronting the …
Reconstructing Sovereignty: From Control To Responsibility, Eric K. Leonard
Reconstructing Sovereignty: From Control To Responsibility, Eric K. Leonard
Human Rights & Human Welfare
As I stood with a standing-room only crowd last fall at a United Nations University of New York (UNU-ONY) event entitled, "Prevention of Mass Atrocities: From Mandate to Realization," I began to wonder how far the responsibility to protect (R2P) could be stretched. As defined by the UNU-ONY organizers, the purpose of the event was " to explore the work of mass atrocity prevention across the UN system, with a focus on the role of the new Office of the Special Representative for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities (SRPGMA)." As I currently look at the international community's response …
July Roundtable: Introduction
Human Rights & Human Welfare
An annotation of:
"Armed and Humanitarian" by Bruce Falconer. Mother Jones. May 19, 2008.
Mission Creep: De-Militarizing Humanitarian Protection, Sonia Cardenas
Mission Creep: De-Militarizing Humanitarian Protection, Sonia Cardenas
Human Rights & Human Welfare
Over a decade ago, the U.S. military was warning liberal internationalists about the dangers of "mission creep." Today it is doing the opposite, incorporating relief and development work into its operations. In the devastating aftermath of Cyclone Nargis in Burma , the U.S. military's newfound mission may seem compelling. Unfortunately, expanding the military's role into humanitarian work reflects a flawed logic that should be resisted. There are more promising ways to protect victims of humanitarian disaster.
When Steel And Guns Meets Bread And Butter, Daniel J. Graeber
When Steel And Guns Meets Bread And Butter, Daniel J. Graeber
Human Rights & Human Welfare
Speaking before the 191-member United Nations in 2005, then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair said that "For the first time . we are agreed that states do not have the right to do what they will within their own borders but that we in the name of humanity have a common duty to protect people where their own governments will not." This notion, that of responsible sovereignty , says that nation states forfeit the right to uninterrupted internal freedoms when they no longer uphold the responsibilities associated with sovereignty.
Modern Constitutional Democracy And Imperialism, James Tully
Modern Constitutional Democracy And Imperialism, James Tully
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
To what extent is the development of modern constitutional democracy as a state form in the West and its spread around the world implicated in western imperialism? This has been a leading question of legal scholarship over the last thirty years. James Tully draws on this scholarship to present a preliminary answer. Part I sets out seven central features of modern constitutional democracy and its corresponding international institutions of law and government. Part II sets out three major imperial roles that these legal and political institutions have played, and continue to play. And finally, Part III surveys ways in which …
The Constitutive Paradox Of Modern Law: A Comment On Tully, Ruth Buchanan
The Constitutive Paradox Of Modern Law: A Comment On Tully, Ruth Buchanan
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
This commentary draws out and elaborates upon some of the more challenging aspects of Professor Tully's sophisticated taxonomy of the relationship between modern constitutional forms and constituent powers. Tully's article reveals the historical particularities of these formations, and at the same time encourages the reader to think beyond them, towards the potentially uncategorizable realm of democratic constitutionalism. Yet, how is it possible to use a taxonomy of modern constitutional democracy as a means of understanding what ties in the uncharted territory beyond? This commentary further explores to what extent this paradoxical modern configuration of constituent powers and constitutional forms may …
Editor's Notebook: A Politcal Reality Check, Michael Kryzanek
Editor's Notebook: A Politcal Reality Check, Michael Kryzanek
Bridgewater Review
No abstract provided.
Celebrating 35 Years Of Canadian Studies, Michael Kryzanek
Celebrating 35 Years Of Canadian Studies, Michael Kryzanek
Bridgewater Review
No abstract provided.
Exile: Why The Human Rights Council Will Not Work, Daniel J. Graeber
Exile: Why The Human Rights Council Will Not Work, Daniel J. Graeber
Human Rights & Human Welfare
The Economist writes in an April 24th edition that the U.N.’s Human Rights Council, the predecessor to the sixty-year-old U.N. Commission on Human Rights, is a “one-sided Israeli-bashing” organization. The Economist argues that the inclusion of second- and third-tier countries from the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) and the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) makes it a forum for targeting offenses committed by the Israeli government against the Palestinian people.
Raharimanana : « Le Viol Des Douceurs », Patricia Célérier
Raharimanana : « Le Viol Des Douceurs », Patricia Célérier
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
constant and paradoxical paradigm, violence is at the core of the Malagasy writer, Jean-Luc Raharimanana’s work. What are its representations, its modulations and functions in his shortstories, his novel, Nour, 1947, and his narrative, L’arbre anthropophage ? His poetic elaboration of violence puts his production at the juncture of postmodern and committed literatures and gives it a singular value in the world of postcolonial literature.
Christina M. Cerna On Truth And Reconciliation In South Africa, Did The Trc Deliver? Edited By Audrey R. Chapman And Hugo Van Der Merwe. Philadelphia: University Of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. 346 Pp., Christina M. Cerna
Human Rights & Human Welfare
A review of:
Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa, Did the TRC Deliver? Edited by Audrey R. Chapman and Hugo van der Merwe. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. 346 pp.
The Myth Of Membership: Reforming The U.N. Human Rights Council, Sonia Cardenas
The Myth Of Membership: Reforming The U.N. Human Rights Council, Sonia Cardenas
Human Rights & Human Welfare
The purportedly new-and-improved Human Rights Council is, by most accounts, failing to live up to its promise. Critics accuse the Council of following in the footsteps of its predecessor the U.N. Human Rights Commission because it permits rights abusers among its ranks and it focuses overwhelmingly on Israel. The dominant assumption, articulated by the United States, is that this is a problem of membership; more stringent criteria would result in a less biased body. This, however, is wishful thinking. Changing the rules of membership would only substitute one set of biases for another. A productive dialogue about reforming the Human …
Stephen James On The Battle For Welfare Rights: Politics And Poverty In Modern America By Felicia Kornbluh. Philadelphia: University Of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. 287pp., Stephen James
Human Rights & Human Welfare
A review of:
The Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in Modern America by Felicia Kornbluh. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. 287pp.
June Roundtable: Introduction
Human Rights & Human Welfare
An annotation of:
"A Screaming Start: The UN and Human Rights." The Economist. April 24, 2008.
The Human Rights Council: A Failure In Global Governance, Eric K. Leonard
The Human Rights Council: A Failure In Global Governance, Eric K. Leonard
Human Rights & Human Welfare
“The UN and Human Rights: A Screaming Start,” makes several valid points of concern in regards to the recently formed Human Rights Council. As the article stipulates, in many ways the Council does not look radically different from its predecessor, the Human Rights Commission, in that it fails to provide membership regulations that would keep “not free” states of the Council (with only twenty-three out of forty-seven states defined as free) and it lacks the clout in the political hierarchy to truly accomplish anything of substance. However, the article does point out that the one mechanism that could prove useful …
E-Government For Development: A Case Study From Mozambique, Gertrudes Macueve
E-Government For Development: A Case Study From Mozambique, Gertrudes Macueve
The African Journal of Information Systems
This paper draws upon Amartya Sen’s concept of "development as freedom" as an effective approach to analyze e-government for development initiatives. An interpretive analysis of three projects ongoing in Mozambique report that although some "freedoms" are currently reachable through these initiatives, a lot needs to be done to achieve "development as freedom." The use of this theoretical approach provides a valuable contribution to the research domain of ICTs for development. This article also draws practical recommendations to assist managers of e-government projects in Mozambique, as well as other developing countries.
May Roundtable: Introduction
Human Rights & Human Welfare
An annotation of:
"China's Olympic Delusion" by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom. Nation. March 19, 2008.
Sport And Politics, Christine Bell
Sport And Politics, Christine Bell
Human Rights & Human Welfare
I found the reflection interesting, but unsurprising. Protestors use the Olympic spotlight (or should we say torch?) to shine on China’s flaws, and China tries to re-direct or extinguish its beams.
"Instant Karma": How Globalization Contests China's Abuses, Alison Brysk
"Instant Karma": How Globalization Contests China's Abuses, Alison Brysk
Human Rights & Human Welfare
China’s rise from impoverished backwater to prospective superpower has been accompanied by the repression of tens of millions of its own people, at the hands of a nationalist, developmentalist government. Under contemporary conditions of globalization, suppression of civil liberties, domination of ethnic minorities, and unholy alliances with resource-rich dictatorships are no longer plausible requisites of this model—if they ever were. The broadening and deepening of economic globalization towards a more sustainable complex of political influence involves “soft power,” including international reputation and norms. Thus, China’s Olympian reach for true hegemony provides the best chance for human rights advocates to weave …
Beijing's Olympics: Pride, Appearance And Human Rights, Thomas Beal
Beijing's Olympics: Pride, Appearance And Human Rights, Thomas Beal
Human Rights & Human Welfare
One lazy summer evening in Beijing, about fifteen years ago, my wife and I were strolling down Jianguomenwai, the bustling street adjacent to our flat in the Qijiayuan Diplomatic Compound. The day had been sweltering, and as the sun began to set the sidewalks filled with pedestrians who, like us, had escaped their stuffy apartments to take in a cool, soothing breeze.
The Olympic Spotlight: The Beijing Games And China As A Future World Leader, Eric A. Heinze
The Olympic Spotlight: The Beijing Games And China As A Future World Leader, Eric A. Heinze
Human Rights & Human Welfare
According to Jeffrey Wasserstrom’s article, if the Chinese think they can censor the Olympics, and the political showcasing that will almost certainly accompany them, they are sorely mistaken. I am persuaded by the thrust of this argument. I just hope that as China vies for global leadership and influence, whatever truths the Olympic spotlight reveals about its potential in this regard are more farcical than tragic.
Seductions Of Imperialism: Incapacitating Life, Fetishizing Death And Catastrophizing Ecologies, Anna M. Agathangelou
Seductions Of Imperialism: Incapacitating Life, Fetishizing Death And Catastrophizing Ecologies, Anna M. Agathangelou
Human Rights & Human Welfare
“China’s Olympic Delusion” is a great piece which gestures to the ironies and/or contradictions of political systems in bed with imperialist-capitalism as we know it at this time: the tensions between a dominant idea that liberal democracy is the best political system to pay attention to and address human rights, and capitalism with no limits, can go hand-in-hand. This is merely the delusion, and also the fantasy, that keeps “us” (i.e., citizens, intellectuals etc) put, and from thinking critically.
Actor Preference And The Implementation Of Ins V. Chadha, Darren A. Wheeler
Actor Preference And The Implementation Of Ins V. Chadha, Darren A. Wheeler
Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law
No abstract provided.
Slavery And "Abuse Regeneration", Christine Bell
Slavery And "Abuse Regeneration", Christine Bell
Human Rights & Human Welfare
Skinner’s depiction of modern day slavery is graphic and challenging. Anyone viewing prohibitions on slavery, or abolition, as historical anachronism, or requiring reinterpretation for modern-day practices, must think again. Skinner persuades us that slavery in its most old fashioned sense is alive and well and, worse than that–on the rise.
Slavery: From Public Crime To Private Wrong, Alison Brysk
Slavery: From Public Crime To Private Wrong, Alison Brysk
Human Rights & Human Welfare
The fight against slavery was the first international human rights movement, and the elimination of legalized bondage represented a hallmark of Western civilization. But the persistence and revival of this ancient evil shows that in an era of globalization, a prohibited public crime has morphed into a massive private wrong.
April Roundtable: Introduction
April Roundtable: Introduction
Human Rights & Human Welfare
An annotation of:
“A World Enslaved" by E. Benjamin Skinner. Foreign Policy (March/April) 2008.
Forget Me Not: Bodies As Last Colonies Of Capitalism?, Anna M. Agathangelou
Forget Me Not: Bodies As Last Colonies Of Capitalism?, Anna M. Agathangelou
Human Rights & Human Welfare
Slavery is one technology of imperialism that serves to generate more profits worldwide. Skinner brings this issue to our attention, arguing that many people think that slavery ended in the 19th century, but the current turning of peoples into slaves proves otherwise. Skinner points out that since 1817, there have been more than a dozen international conventions signed banning the slave trade and yet, the number of people sold as slaves is in the millions. He calls modern day slavery a “monstrous crime” and proceeds to provide us with insights from his research. He begins making his point through what …
Combating The Slave Trade: Why Governments Are Not Good At Governing, Eric A. Heinze
Combating The Slave Trade: Why Governments Are Not Good At Governing, Eric A. Heinze
Human Rights & Human Welfare
It is difficult to read Benjamin Skinner’s revealing piece on the international slave trade and not feel revolted that we still live in a world where so many people live in bondage. What is particularly disturbing is that much of the modern-day slave trade takes place with the full knowledge, and even acquiescence of, state governments.