POLITSC 4455 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Anti-Imperialism, Utopia, Atlantic Charter
17 Oct 2014
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2: what other promise present in the atlantic charter did human rights displace, which question, according to moyn, was genuinely pressing in the postwar, who captured the language of human rights during the cold war, according to moyn, in the 1940s, human rights were not: (enumerate, when did the term human rights" appear for the first time in the united states and what was the meaning of the term in each of these times, what does the participation of non western diplomats say about the multicultural credentials of the un. Like practically all other anticolonialists, ho placed popular liberation first, not individual human rights directly. The utopia that still mattered most was postcolonial, collective liberation from an empire, not individual rights canonized in international law: as moyn notes, the failure of human rights to engage anticolonial movements was not for the lack of international engagement of these groups.
