For the past fifteen years I have been puzzled by the extent to which human rights have
become the language of progressive politics. Indeed, for many years after the Second World …

Human Rights Ethics makes an important contribution to contemporary philosophical and
political debates concerning the advancement of global justice and human rights. Butler's …

" Human rights" has become a global agenda. As history teaches, the status of missionaries
is always ambivalent, because one can distinguish between the quality of the message and …

The two quotations draw attention to a considerable, and interesting, conundrum inherent in
any attempt to discuss the status of human rights in political theory. This is that, in recent …

Human rights are a suspect project–this seems the only sensible starting point today. This
suspicion, however, is not absolute and the desire to preserve and reform human rights …

Over the past half century the language of human rights has gained such dominance in
moral, civic, and ecclesiastical discourse that ethical and social questions are increasingly …

My students seem to be very concerned--and also very divided--on how to approach the
difficult subject of human rights in non-Western societies. Is it right, the question is often …

International Realism is widely interpreted as hostile to international human rights.“Realist”
thinkers like Henry Kissinger, Kenneth Waltz, and Danilo Zolo are typically relied on in order …

This book is presented as a liberal-egalitarian critique of multiculturalism. It seems
remarkable that Barry concentrates on this subject, instead of publishing the long-expected …