ECH 2310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Statism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Conflict Studies and Human Rights
• Course: ECH 2310
• Professor: Michael Williams

Document Summary

This term is not used as much as it used to be. Harper government rumored to have banned the term r2p from foreign affairs department. Rsp allows us a good way of looking at how emerge when dealing with human rights. Despite its criticisms, r2p is not a naive doctrine. Created to help deal with some very big issues in international relations. Practice around power -> exercise power by reframing the problem of intervention and by trying to set a series of criteria for which the agenda can get discussed. Not necessarily looking to be made a legal doctrine, statist idea. Even a statist understanding of rights does not mean that there is no such thing as rights that transcend the state. Change framework of how people think of rights and interventions. What sovereignty means in the modern world (do we have obligations to anyone else?) State sovereignty and universal rights (we are trying to put the two together through.