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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 …
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.