Abstract will be provided by author.Two big assumptions fuel current mobilization against and policy discussions about the U.S. war on terror and its implications for human rights and international cooperation. First, terrorism creates strong pressures on governments — especially democracies...

It is traditional to theorize about an Administration's foreign policy on human rights in terms of liberalism v. realism, with a dash of constructivism thrown in. This essay charts a different course. It notes three general benchmarks for discussing an Administration and its foreign policy on...

Since Kant the foundation of human rights has been grounded on certain features of individuals that are construed as conferring human dignity, the protection of which is the main justification for and purpose of human rights. Most often those features are subsumed under the general heading of...

In the last fifty years, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) incrementally transformed human rights in Europe. The effects and role of states in this transformation is oft debated, problematizing the degree to which national sovereignty is unwillingly diminished or conversely the...

This paper proposes a method for ranking country human rights performance that takes into account the performance of countries on a host of variables that are related to the protection of civil and political rights. The method involves two stages. The first stage employs principal component...

On June 4th 2009, President Obama gave a speech at Cairo University that sought to improve America's fractured relations with the Muslim world. While discussing contentious issues including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Iran's nuclear development and women's rights - including the right to...

Can a value pluralist maintain a commitment to human rights? In this paper, I argue that they can and, indeed, should do so. Value pluralism requires that we reject the notion that any single value can serve as a foundation for universal human rights. However, it also points us toward what is...

Political parties are essential to representative democracies and important in agenda setting and shaping the political discourse, even if they fall short of forming the government or acquiring seats in the parliament. Focusing on the case of Turkey, this paper assesses the extent to which human...

Transnational institutions, such as the Global Compact and the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VPs), commit multinational companies to human rights and social standards on a voluntary basis. The governance literature has identified a credible ‘shadow of hierarchy' cast by a...