Human Rights Review articles from October 2000

Human Rights Review archives from October 2000

Controversies in the Current International Human Rights Debate [1].
October 1, 2000... Scholarship thrives on academic debate. If there is overall consensus, if everybody agrees on everything, the dynamics of thinking are at risk. The quiet of the grave is not suited for the development of thought. What is true of scholarship in...

The Perils of Democratization: Nationalism, Markets, and Human Rights.
October 1, 2000... 1. Human Rights and Democratic Transitions Immediately after the end of the Cold War there was much talk of a "New World order," and even of the "end of history." [1] The general idea was that one of the two great political ideologies of...

The Multidimensionality of Human Rights and Duties.
October 1, 2000... Introduction In this article I will focus principally on three aspects of (basic) human rights. First, I wish to stress that only through a multidimensional examination of the values to which human rights are tied can we obtain a true...

The Contamination of Universalism: Nihilism and Human Rights after Kosovo.
October 1, 2000... Introduction After the Cold War ended, human rights became part of the new international security paradigm. Deterrence, balance of power, nuclear disarmament, proxy wars arid other Cold War tools went down on the security agenda, while...

The So-Called Right of National Self-Determination and Other Myths.
October 1, 2000... "Nations enjoy the right of self-determination"--so we have been told for so long that this claim appears, at least at first sight, to have as great a claim to certifiable veracity as the law of gravity. Even though complications and even...

Nationalism, Democracy, and Human Rights [*].
October 1, 2000... The Hidden Dimension As Isaiah Berlin has very accurately noted, [1] nationalism has possibly been the greatest social and political phenomenon of the last two centuries, even if the social sciences have scarcely understood it. Berlin also...

Baedeker Barbarism: Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon and Robert Kaplan's Balkan Ghosts.
October 1, 2000... At the end of the twentieth century, the economic and technological interconnectedness of the world gave rise to the concept of the "global village." Yet, at the same time, the fall of communism and the growing recognition of the rights of...

Involuntary Sterilization and the Mentally Retarded, Revisited.
October 1, 2000... Historically, the complexity of the issues that surround the care of mentally retarded individuals has created challenging questions that have confounded public opinions and reactions, the judicial system, and professionals in the medical and...

Gesture Without Motion? Poetry and Politics in Africa.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Gesture Without Motion? Poetry and Politics in Africa. A Review Essay on The Burden of Memory, The Muse of Forgiveness by Wole Soyinka (Oxford University Press, 1999) Can symbolic gestures organized around notions of human fights have any...