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Between Human Rights and Sovereignty : An Examination of EU–China Political Relations

Men, Jing - 2015

This paper will study the differences between the EU and China on the understanding of human rights and national … sovereignty and their impact on EU‐China political relations. The paper will be divided into the following parts. The first part … part will look at China's policy on sovereignty and human rights. The fourth part will examine EU-China political relations …

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The Right to a Peaceful World Order

Udombana, Nsongurua J. - 2011

The Author interrogates the right to a peaceful world order (PWO) in the context of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The Author begins by examining the right to peace, then tracing the search for a PWO and spotlighting reasons why that search has largely been elusive. The Author...

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US Foreign Policy and Human Rights : Change and Complexity

Forsythe, David P. - 2009

U.S. political leaders have long talked about the country as an exceptional nation, a shining city on a hill, whose divinely blessed destiny was to lead the world to greater freedom and democracy (Lipset, Smith, Ignatieff). This constructed role or self-image of American exceptionalism certainly...

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Dealing with Africa's Human Rights Problems : The Role of the United Nations, the African Union and Africa's Sub-Regional Organizations in Dealing with Africa's Human Rights Proble...

Sarkin, Jeremy - 2013

This article examines the basis for humanitarian intervention (HI) in the United Nations Charter, the African Union (AU) Charter and in a number of African sub-regional institutions. It traces the historical development of HI and argues that, while the right to HI emerged more than 100 years...

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Human Rights, Israel, and the Political Realities of Occupation

Harris, Grant T. - 2008

Various political realities influence the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and, more generally, the vitality of the international law of occupation. The law of occupation - though ill-suited to modern international relations and ill-equipped for prolonged occupation - has...

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The Organized Hypocrisy of Ethical Foreign Policy : Human Rights, Democracy and Western Arms Sales

Perkins, Richard; Neumayer, Eric - 2010

Over the past two decades, Western political leaders have scripted a more ethical foreign policy, wherein far greater weight is given to protecting the rights and freedoms of extra-territorial citizens. Using the example of arms exports to developing countries, the present paper exposes the...

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India Myanmar Relation and Human Rights

Suresh, Devare - 2015

This making known highlights the key problems about Myanmar-India relations, and therefore the main areas of concern with current Indian policy. Indian policy has modified markedly since the Nineteen Nineties, driven by realism and its own economic and strategic interests

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North Korea's Human Rights Insecurity : State Image Management in the Post-UN COI Era

Son, Sarah - 2018

The 2014 report of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea marked a watershed moment in international awareness and action on North Korea's human rights problem. It sparked widespread international condemnation, and prompted anxiety and insecurity on the part of...

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Human Rights Under Siege

Alston, Philip - 2018

There is little debate that the human rights movement is experiencing unprecedented challenges. Here Philip Alston addresses how the movement needs to respond in order to survive. Firstly, he notes the importance of maintaining perspective, reminding us that the defence of human rights has never...

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Development as a Human Right

Andreassen, Bård Anders (ed.); Marks, Stephen P. (ed.) - 2010 - 2. ed.

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