POL101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Omnipotence, Atlantic Charter, Autocracy
4 Nov 2016
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Whether rhetoric or reality, human rights are a global phenomenon. Yet all this is little more than half a century old. The language of rights as it emerged at the time of the french and american revol- utions at the end of the eighteenth century had had only a minor impact on diplomatic practice. Eleanor roosevelt" version says it happened because a number of noble and heroic individuals shamed the powers into action by their tireless advocacy of the cause. It all came down in the end to the power of a vision and its visionaries. Recent studies of roosevelt herself, raphael lemkin, and others all provide highly personalized accounts of key activists. Argues that widespread revulsion at nazi wickedness galvanized the world into action. Both offer history as morality tale: good triumphed through the acts of selfless few or out of the depths of evil".
