POLB80H3 Lecture Notes - Humanitarian Intervention, Lesson Learned, Cultural Relativism
27 Feb 2014
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Human rights in world politics: what are human rights, freedom from harm, set of principles (for everyone, universal human rights vs. 2nd: social/economic rights of individuals: discussed at the same time as 1st generation after wwii/cold war, based on political ideology. 3rd: group rights: more recent phenomenon, right to peace democracy, development, political debate/conflict. In trying to define universal standards, esp. politically relevant standards: common concerns/sovereignty concerns, come out of religion, social construction, practice, international community to protect notions of human rights, universal human rights. All humans have certain set of entitlement: cultural relativism. Whether diff cultures might have diff ideas about rights that humans should have. Idea of what people are entitled to develops differently in different cultures. No way to judge amongst different systems/ideas about what rights people have. Huge philosophical debate (not talked about in class: developing a human rights regime. No: can if enforced, only go so far, diversity between states.
