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Key Texts (2 items)There is no single, essential text you must buy for the course, but you may find it useful topurchase one or both of the following introductory texts, since each will provide a numberof essential readings listed below.

Human rights - Michael Freeman, 2017Book | This is the 3rd edition, available as a print & e-book

Universal human rights in theory and practice - Jack Donnelly, ©2013Book | Available as a print & e-book. Note we have 2 versions of the e-book. If you are

unable to access one, try the other.

Reading and viewing for Review Essay (due Week 5) (3 items)

Night - Elie Wiesel, 1981, ©1960Book | Essential

Night ; Dawn ; The accident: three tales - Elie Wiesel, 1974Book | Essential

Hotel Rwanda (2004) - Thursday, 23 May 2013Audio-visual document

General Books (14 items)The following books are useful general texts for the course, and are available in theHeadington library. However, students may find it more useful to focus their reading onthe shorter and more concise articles and chapters given for each week.

The future of human rights - Upendra Baxi, 2002Book | Available as print & e-book

Human rights: a very short introduction - Andrew Clapham, 2015Book | 2nd edn.

Human rights: a very short introduction - Andrew Clapham, 2007Book | Available as print & e-book

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Who believes in human rights?: reflections on the European Convention - MarieBenedicte Dembour Dembour, 2006

Book

Human rights in global politics - Timothy Dunne, Nicholas J. Wheeler, 1999Book

Human rights in international relations - David P. Forsythe, 2006Book

Human rights - Michael Freeman, 2017Book | This is the 3rd edition, available as a print & e-book. 2nd edn (2011) is also

available.

Rights - Peter Jones, Albert Weale, 1994Book

Rights: sociological perspectives - Lydia Morris, 2006Book

Making sense of human rights - James W. Nickel, c2007Book

The age of rights - Norberto Bobbio, 1996Book

Crimes against humanity: the struggle for global justice - Geoffrey Robertson, 2006Book

The rise and rise of human rights - Kirsten Sellars, 2002Book

International human rights law - Rhona K. M. Smith, 2018Book | This is the 8th edition

Week 1 - Understanding Human Rights: An introduction (16 items)

What are rights? What are human rights? This lecture will explore these fundamentalquestions, focusing on a social scientific, rather than a legal perspective. The concept ofrights will be introduced and defined, and various types of rights will be introduced,including key distinctions such as liberty-rights and claim-rights, positive rights andnegative rights, and citizenship rights and human rights. This lecture will then outline thestructure of the course, and introduce the main themes, concepts, and institutions, whichwill be key to understanding human rights.

Essential Reading (7 items)

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The future of human rights - Upendra Baxi, 2002Book | Essential | Read Chapter 1 'An Age of Human Rights?'. Available as print &

e-book

Universal Declaration of Human Rights | United NationsWebpage | Essential | *Be sure to have hard or e-copy available for Seminar exercise. *

Textbook readings (2 items)Read Freeman and/or Donnelly chapters

Human rights - Michael Freeman, 2017Book | Essential | Read Chapter 1 'Introduction: Thinking about Human Rights' &

Chapter 4 'Theories of Human Rights'. This is the 3rd edition, available as print & e-book. 2nd edn (2011) is also available.

Universal human rights in theory and practice - Jack Donnelly, ©2013Book | Essential | Read Chapter 1 'The Concept of Human Rights' & Chapter 2 'The

Universal Declaration Model'. Available as a print & e-book. Note we have 2 versions of thee-book. If you are unable to access one, try the other.

Start reading Night by Elie Wiesel for Review Essay due WEEK 5 on Feb 24:

Night - Elie Wiesel, 1981, ©1960Book | Essential

Night ; Dawn ; The accident: three tales - Elie Wiesel, 1974Book | Essential

Further Reading (5 items)

Human rights: a very short introduction - Andrew Clapham, 2015Book | Chapters 1 & 2. This is the 2nd edition. We also have the 1st edition - see below.

Human rights: a very short introduction - Andrew Clapham, 2007Book | Chapters 1 & 2. Available as print & e-book

The Relative Universality of Human Rights - Jack Donnelly, 2007Article

Universal human rights: ‘as much round and round as ever onward’ - Tony Evans, 2003Article

World poverty and human rights: cosmopolitan responsibilities and reforms - ThomasWinfried Menko Pogge, 2002

Book | Chapter: 'How Should Human Rights be conceived?' Pages 58-75

Further viewing (3 items)

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For this week’s 75th anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz, Channel 4 produced thisprogram – “Auschwitz Untold: In Colour”. This will be excellent background to readingWiesel’s Night. A link can also be found under Week 3 on Moodle.

Auschwitz Untold: In Colour - Part One: The Unthinkable (2019) - Tuesday, 28 Jan 2020Audio-visual document

Auschwitz Untold: In Colour - Part Two: Untold Road to Auschwitz (2019) - Monday, 27 Jan2020

Audio-visual document

Week 2 - The Development, Scope, and Terrain of Human Rights (16items)

Where do human rights come from? When did they emerge? On what basis are theyclaimed? And why are they so special? This session will provide an overview of the historyand development of human rights. It will explore how human rights emerged from 18thcentury politics, and how in the last thirty years have emerged to be the defining featureof our moral landscape, so much that today can be said to be the ‘age of human rights’.The lecture will then summarise the main institutions and bodies concerned with humanrights norms, and will close by outlining the three main critiques of human rights, whichwill be the subject of the next three weeks of the course.

Essential Reading (6 items)

The Strange Triumph of Human Rights, 1933–1950 - Mark Mazower, 2004Article | Essential | *Be sure to have hard or e-copy available for Seminar exercise.*

Textbook readings (2 items)Read Freeman and/or Donnelly chapters

Human rights - Michael Freeman, 2017Book | Essential | Read Chapter 2 'Origins: The Rise and Fall of Natural Rights' &

Chapter 3 'After 1945: The New Age of Rights'. This is the 3rd edition, available as print &e-book. 2nd edn (2011) is also available.

Universal human rights in theory and practice - Jack Donnelly, 2013Book | Essential | Read Chapter 5 'A Brief History of Human Rights'. Available as a print

& e-book. Note we have 2 versions of the e-book. If you are unable to access one, try theother.

Continue reading Night by Elie Wiesel. Complete in time for next week’s workshopdiscussion on the book.

Night - Elie Wiesel, 1981, ©1960Book | Essential

Night ; Dawn ; The accident: three tales - Elie Wiesel, 1974

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Book | Essential

Further Reading (8 items)

The future of human rights - Upendra Baxi, 2002Book | Chapters 2 & 3. Available as print & e-book

The Recent History of Human Rights. - Kenneth Cmiel, 2004Article

Human rights in global politics - Timothy Dunne, Nicholas J. Wheeler, 1999Book | Chapter: Donnelly, J. (1999) 'The Social Construction of International Human

Rights'

Inventing human rights: a history - Lynn Hunt, 2008Book | Especially Intro, Chapter 5 and the Appendix, 'Three Declarations'

The history of human rights: from ancient times to the globalization era - Micheline Ishay,c2008

Book

The last utopia: human rights in history - Samuel Moyn, c2010Book

A problem from hell: America and the age of genocide - Samantha Power, 2003Book | ‘The Crime without a Name'

Human rights in global politics - Timothy Dunne, Nicholas J. Wheeler, 1999Book | Chapter: Kaldor, M. (1999) 'Transnational civil society'

Further Viewing (1 items)

The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History - 2009-10-28Audio-visual document | Start at minute 6

Week 3 - Reflect and Review (3 items)A preparation for your review essay on Wiesel’s Night and “Hotel Rwanda”. See yourmodule handbook for full details.

Essential reading (2 items)Finish reading Night by Elie Wiesel

Night - Elie Wiesel, 1981, ©1960Book | Essential

Night ; Dawn ; The accident: three tales - Elie Wiesel, 1974Book | Essential

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Essential viewing (1 items)

Hotel Rwanda (2004) - Thursday, 23 May 2013Audio-visual document

Week 4 - Theoretical Tension 1: Multiculturalism (19 items)The rights of individuals vs. the rights of cultural groups

What happens when the rights of individuals come into conflict with cultural traditions? Arehuman rights a ‘Western construct with limited applicability?’ Do ‘group rights’ make anytheoretical or practical sense? This week we will be looking at the first great tension withinhuman rights: between individuals and cultural groups. We will consider the relativistargument against universal human rights, and think about some examples. Then we willlook at multiculturalism, and the challenges this creates for rights in the contemporaryworld.

Essential Reading (3 items)

Human Rights, Rationality and Sentimentality - R. Rorty, 1993Chapter | Essential

Textbook readings (2 items)Read Freeman and/or Donnelly chapters

Human rights - Michael Freeman, 2017Book | Essential | Read Chapter 6 'Universality, Diversity and Difference: Culture and

Human Rights'. This is the 3rd edition, available as print & e-book. 2nd edn (2011) is alsoavailable.

Universal human rights in theory and practice - Jack Donnelly, ©2013Book | Essential | Read Chapter 6 'The Relative Universality of Human Rights' & Chapter

7 'Universality in a World of Particularities'. Available as a print & e-book. Note we have 2versions of the e-book. If you are unable to access one, try the other.

Further Reading (15 items)

Are Human Rights Universal? - Shashi Tharoor, 2000Article

The future of human rights - Upendra Baxi, 2002Book | Chapter 6. Available as print & e-book

Human rights: opposing viewpoints - Mary E. Williams, ©1998Book | Chapter: Kausikan, B. (1993) 'A Universal Definition of Human Rights Ignores

Cultural Diversity' New

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Perspectives Quarterly, Fall 1993. Reprinted in this book, pp. 21-24.

Human rights in global politics - Timothy Dunne, Nicholas J. Wheeler, 1999Book | Chapter: 'Booth, K. (1999) 'Three Tyrannies of Human Rights'

Culture and rights: anthropological perspectives - Jane K. Cowan, MarieBenedicte Dembour, Richard Wilson, 2001

Book | Available as print and e-book

Who believes in human rights?: reflections on the European Convention - MarieBenedicte Dembour, 2006

Book | Chapter 1

Human Rights and Human Dignity: An Analytic Critique of Non-Western Conceptions ofHuman Rights - Jack Donnelly, 1982

Article

The Attack on Human Rights. - Michael Ignatieff, 2001Article

Human Rights, Group Rights, and Peoples' Rights - Peter Jones, 1999Article

Identities, politics, and rights - Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns, 1997Book

Human rights: a political and cultural critique - Makau Mutua, c2002Book

Making sense of human rights - James W. Nickel, c2007Book | Chapters 10 and 11

Human rights: cultural and ideological perspectives - Adamantia Pollis, Peter Schwab, 1980Book | Chapter: Pollis, A. and Schwab, P. (1979) 'Human rights: a western construct with

limited applicability', pp 1-17.

International law from below: development, social movements and Third World resistance -Balakrishnan Rajagopal, 2003

Book | Chapter 7

Relativism and the Search for Human Rights - Alison Dundes Renteln, 1988Article

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Week 5 - Theoretical Tension 2: Globalisation (16 items)The rights of individuals vs. the rights of states

What happens when the rights of individuals come into conflict with the sovereign right ofgovernments? Do rights have any meaning without the institutions of the state? Whateffect has globalisation had on the application of human rights norms and the power ofstate sovereignty? This week we will be looking at the second great tension within humanrights: between individuals and states. We will consider the legal positivist critique ofhuman rights, and draw on some key examples. We will then look at how globalisation hasaltered this critique, producing institutionalised human rights norms that challenge theauthority of the nation-state.  

Essential Reading (3 items)

Introduction: Transnational Threats and Opportunities - A. Brysk, 2002Chapter | Essential

Human Rights as Politics - Michael Ignatieff, 2001Chapter | Essential | Available as a print & e-book.

Human rights - Michael Freeman, 2017Book | Essential | Read Chapter 7 'The Politics of Human Rights'. This is the 3rd edition,

available as print & e-book. 2nd edn (2011) is also available.

Further Reading (12 items)

People out of place: globalization, human rights, and the citizenship gap - Alison Brysk,Gershon Shafir, 2004

Book | Chapter: Shafir, Gershon (2004) ‘Citizenship and human rights in an era ofglobalization’

Non-state actors and human rights - Philip Alston, 2005Book

Globalization and human rights - Alison Brysk, 2002Book

Human rights and private wrongs: constructing global civil society - Alison Brysk, 2005Book | Chapter 1

Human rights obligations of non-state actors - Andrew Clapham, Academy of EuropeanLaw, 2006

Book | Especially Chapter 6

Globalization from below: transnational activists and protest networks - Donatella DellaPorta, 2006

Book

International human rights - Jack Donnelly, 2007Book | Chapter: ‘Globalisation and Human Rights’

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Human rights: confronting myths and misunderstandings - Andrew Fagan, 2009Book | Chapter 2

Privatisation and human rights in the age of globalisation - K. de Feyter, FelipeGomez Isa, c2005

Book

Human rights fifty years on: a reappraisal - Tony Evans, c1998Book | McGrew, Anthony (1998) ‘Human Rights in a Global Age: Coming to Terms with

Globalisation'

The power of human rights: international norms and domestic change - ThomasRisse-Kappen, Steve C. Ropp, Kathryn Sikkink, 1999

Book

Law and globalization from below: towards a cosmopolitan legality - Boaventura de SousaSantos,Cesar A.Rodriguez Garavito, 2005

Book

Week 6 - Theoretical Tension 3: Marxism (18 items)Positive rights and negative rights

What happens when the right to freedom or liberty conflicts with the right to food orwater? Which is more important, our rights to freedom or our rights to subsistence? Arethey mutually exclusive? Is it fair to say that human rights do not offer true freedom, justan illusionary bourgeois freedom? This week we will be looking at the third great tensionwithin human rights: between positive rights (rights to social and economic goods) andnegative rights (rights to be free from interference). We will consider the Marxist critique ofhuman rights, and draw on some key examples. We will then look at contemporaryneoliberalism, and the decline in Marxism as an ideological and critical force in thecontemporary world. We will examine whether the idea of a right to food, healthcare andother social and economic goods is viable in today’s world.

Essential Reading (4 items)

Basic rights: subsistence, affluence and U.S. foreign policy - Henry Shue, c1996Book | Essential | Chapter 2

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Political Theory and the Rights of Man - 1967Book | Chapter: Cranston, M. (1967) 'Human rights, real and supposed'. Pages 43-54.

Book not in Library

Textbook readings (2 items)Read Freeman and/or Donnelly chapters

Human rights - Michael Freeman, 2017Book | Essential | Read Chapter 8 'Globalization, Development and Poverty: Economics

and Human Rights'. This is the 3rd edition, available as print & e-book. 2nd edn (2011) isalso available.

Universal human rights in theory and practice - Jack Donnelly, ©2013Book | Essential | Read Chapter 3 'Economic Rights and Group Rights' & Chapter 14

'The West and Economic and Social Rights'. Available as a print & e-book. Note we have 2versions of the e-book. If you are unable to access one, try the other.

Further Reading (13 items)

In What Sense Is the Right to Subsistence a Basic Right? - Elizabeth Ashford, 2009Article

What Future for Economic and Social Rights? - D. Beetham, 1995Article

Freedom from poverty as a human right: who owes what to the very poor? - ThomasWinfried Menko Pogge, 2007

Book | Chapter: Caney, S. (2007), ‘Global Poverty and Human Rights: The case forpositive duties’. Pages 275-302

Social rights under the constitution: government and the decent life -Cecile Fabre, 2000

Book | Chapter 2

Marxism and Human Rights - Leszek Kolakowski, 1983Article

On The Jewish Question by Karl MarxWebpage

Making sense of human rights - James W. Nickel, c2007Book | Chapters 8 & 9

Whose Rights? A Critique of the "Givens" in Human Rights Discourse - V. Spike Peterson,1990

Article | A feminist perspective

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World Poverty and Human Rights - Thomas Pogge, 2005Article

Freedom from poverty as a human right: who owes what to the very poor? - ThomasWinfried Menko Pogge, 2007

Book

International law from below: development, social movements and Third World resistance -Balakrishnan Rajagopal, 2003

Book | Chapter 7

Defending Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Practical Issues Faced by an InternationalHuman Rights Organization - Kenneth Roth, 2004

Article

Basic rights: subsistence, affluence and U.S. foreign policy - Henry Shue, c1996Book | Chapter 3

Week 7 - Rights in practice 1: Refugees and asylum seekers (14 items)

Why do refugees and asylum seekers need special protections in the international systemof nation-states? What protections are provided in international law, and by human rightsconventions? What are the problems with the narrow, legal definition of the refugee, andwhat alternatives are there? What problems do the presence of refugees cause, both forethics, and for global politics? In this lecture we discuss human rights and refugees. It isestimated that one person in every 115 alive today is a refugee or displaced person. Thislecture will define refugees and asylum seekers, and will then examine why thesecategories of people pose a problem to the international system of states. We will look indetail at the 1951 Refugee Convention, and then examine how human rights have beenmobilised as a way of deepening and complementing the protections available to refugees.This lecture will draw on the theories of logical positivism and republicanism, and providesome concrete examples.

Essential Reading (2 items)

Refugees: A Global Human Rights and Security Crisis - Gil Loescher, 1999Chapter | Essential

Transforming refugees into migrants: institutional change and the politics of internationalprotection - Lama Mourad, Kelsey P Norman, 2019

Article | Essential

Further Reading (11 items)

Globalization and human rights - Alison Brysk, 2002Book | Chapter 1

The Geopolitics of Refugee Studies: A View from the South - B. S. Chimni, 1998

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Article | Essential

From the margins of globalization: critical perspectives on human rights - Neve Gordon,2004

Book | Chapter: Feldman, Andreas, and Olea, Helena (2004) ‘New Formulas, Old Sins:Human Rights Abuses against Migrant Workers, Asylum Seekers, and Refugees in theAmericas’

The ethics and politics of asylum: liberal democracy and the response to refugees -Matthew J. Gibney, 2004

Book

The price of indifference: refugees and humanitarian action in the new century - Arthur C.Helton, Council on Foreign Relations, 2002

Book | Available as a print & e-book.

Refugees in a global era - Philip Marfleet, 2006Book

Refugee rights and realities: evolving international concepts and regimes - FrancesNicholson, Patrick M. Twomey, 1999

Book | Available as a print & e-book.

Who Is a Refugee? - Andrew E. Shacknove, 1985Article

Limits of citizenship: migrants and postnational membership in Europe - YaseminNuhoglu Soysal, 1994

Book

Development and displacement - Jenny Robinson, 2002Book | Essential | Chapter: Turton, D. (2002) 'Forced displacement and the

nation-state'. Pages 19-76

Escape from violence: conflict and the refugee crisis in the developing world - Aristide R.Zolberg, Astri Suhrke, Sergio Aguayo, 1989

Book

Week 8 - Rights in practice 2: The Environment and Human Rights (21items)

Is there such a thing as a human right to a clean environment? How would this work inpractice? Would the right to a clean environment exist in harmony or in conflict with otherrights? And how would any conflicts be resolved? This week we will be looking at therecent idea of environmental rights, and will consider whether using the discourse of rightsis the best way to guarantee an adequate standard of living in a world of terribleenvironmental degradation and climate change. We will discuss the advantages and

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disadvantages of including the environment within rights claims, we will look at how theserights might be enforced, and we will discuss some alternative approaches for dealing withenvironmental collapse and the effect it can have on humans.

Essential Reading (4 items)No textbook readings this week.

The Right to a Green Future: Human Rights, Environmentalism, and IntergenerationalJustice - Richard P. Hiskes, 2005

Article | Essential

The Human Right to a Safe Environment: Philosophical Perspectives on Its Scope andJustification - J. Nickel, 1993

Article | Essential | This article also appears in the book below

The philosophy of human rights - Patrick Hayden, 2001Book | Essential | Nickel, J. (1993) 'Human Right to a Safe Environment: Philosophical

Perspectives on Its Scope and Justification'. Also available as a journal article as above.

Draft Principles On Human Rights And The Environment, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1994/9, Annex I -1994

Webpage | Essential

Further Reading (16 items)

Human Rights in an Ecological Era - William Aiken, 1992Article | Journal not available in Brookes library

Conjuring up New Human Rights: A Proposal for Quality Control - Philip Alston, 1984Article

A Moral Imperative: The Human Rights Implications of Climate Change - S. Aminzadeh,2007

Article

Human rights approaches to environmental protection - Alan E. Boyle, Michael R. Anderson, c1996

Book | Introduction & Chapter 1

Human rights, climate change, and discounting - Simon Caney, 2008Article

Democracy and green political thought: sustainability, rights, and citizenship - BrianDoherty, Marius de Geus, 1996

Book | Chapter: Eckersley, R. (1996) 'Greening liberal democracy: the rights discourserevisited'. Pages 207-231

Ecological thought: an introduction - Tim Hayward, 1995Book

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Constitutional Environmental Rights: a Case for Political Analysis - Tim Hayward, 2008Article

The Right to a Green Future: Human Rights, Environmentalism, and IntergenerationalJustice - Richard P. Hiskes, 2005

Article

Human rights and climate change - Stephen J. Humphreys, 2009Book

Life and death matters: human rights, environment and social justice - Barbara RoseJohnston, 2016

Book

Life and death matters: human rights and the environment at the end of the millennium -Barbara Rose Johnston, ©1996

Book

Linking human rights and the environment - 2010Book

Climate Change and Human Rights - A. Sinden, 2007Article

Human rights: new dimensions and challenges - Janusz Symonides, Unesco, c1998Book | Chapter: Trindade, C. and Augusto, A. (1998) ‘Human Rights and the

Environment’

Human rights and the environment: conflicts and norms in a globalizing world - LyubaZarsky, United Nations Environment Programme, 2002

Book

Week 9 - Rights in practice 3: Humanitarian Intervention and theResponsibility to Protect (46 items)

This week we ask whether it is right to start a war on the grounds of human rights? Thequestion presents us with a normative tension. If human rights abuses are beingcommitted somewhere, with certain evidence, is it right to declare war on the offendingstate to protect these rights? What are the moral, legal, and political arguments foranswering yes or no to the above? Also what difference, if any, has been made by theemerging international norm: the Responsibility to Protect.

Essential reading (3 items)

Paradoxes in humanitarian intervention - Martha FinnemoreChapter | Essential | Temporary electronic access during COVID-19. You will be

prompted to set up a Kortext library for this ebook: use your Brookes login details.

Whose Responsibility to Protect? The Duties of Humanitarian Intervention - James Pattison,

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2008Article | Essential

Universal human rights in theory and practice - Jack Donnelly, ©2013Book | Essential | Read Chapter 15 'Humanitarian Intervention against Genocide'.

Available as a print & e-book. Note we have 2 versions of the e-book. If you are unable toaccess one, try the other.

Further reading (42 items)

When Duty Calls: A Pragmatic Standard of Humanitarian Intervention - Robert A. Pape,2012

Article

Human rights, intervention, and the use of force - Philip Alston, Euan MacDonald, 2008Book

The new politics of protection? Côte d'Ivoire, Libya and the responsibility to protect - Alex J.Bellamy, Paul D. Williams, 2011

Article

Ethics and foreign intervention - Deen K. Chatterjee, Don E. Scheid, 2003Book | Chapter: Brown, C (2003) “Selective humanitarianism: in defence of

inconsistency”, pp. 31-50.

The Road to Military Humanitarianism: How the Human Rights NGOs Shaped a NewHumanitarian Agenda - David Chandler, 2001

Article

Waging war: a philosophical introduction - Ian Clark, 1990, c1988Book | Chapters 1 and 2

International Ethics and the Responsibility to Protect. - Michael W. Doyle, 2011Article

Humanitarian intervention: ethical, legal, and political dilemmas - J. L. Holzgrefe, Robert O.Keohane, 2003

Book

Does R2P matter? Interpreting the impact of a norm - Luke Glanville, 2016Article

The Moral Hazard of Humanitarian Intervention: Lessons from the Balkans - Alan J.Kuperman, 2008

Article

War and massacre - Thomas Nagel, 1972Article

The case for pacifism - R. Norman, 1988

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Article | Article not available online. Print journal held at Harcourt Hill Library.

Humanitarian Intervention: An Overview of the Ethical Issues - Michael J. Smith, 1998Article | Journal not available at Brookes Library

Crisis in Kosovo: A Just Use of Force - Brian Orend, 1999Article

Reading humanitarian intervention: human rights and the use of force in international law- Anne Orford, 2003

Book

NATO's ‘Humanitarian War’ over Kosovo - Adam Roberts, 1999Article

Humanitarian intervention: ideas in action - Thomas G. Weiss, 2016Book

Humanitarian intervention and international relations - Jennifer M. Welsh, 2004Book

Humanitarian intervention and international relations - Jennifer M. Welsh, 2004Book

Humanitarian War: A New Consensus? - Susan L. Woodward, 2001Article

Saving strangers: humanitarian intervention in international society - Nicholas J. Wheeler,2000

Book | Available as a print & e-book.

The Responsibility to Protect - ICISSDocument | See also the link below to website

International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect (ICRtoP)Website | The website of this organisation also contains background studies

Humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect: who should intervene? - JamesPattison, 2010

Book

Humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect: who should intervene? - JamesPattison, 2010

Book

Humanitarian intervention - American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. Meeting,2006

Book | Chapter: Tan, Kok-Chor 'The Duty to Protect', pp. 84-116.

Humanitarian intervention: An Inquiry Into Law and Morality - Fernando R.Teso

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n, 2005

Book | Book not available at Brookes Library

The United Nations Security Council and war: the evolution of thought and practice since1945 - A. V. Lowe, 2008

Book | Chapter: Walzer, Michael 'The Security Council and Humanitarian Intervention',pp. 535-62.

The United Nations Security Council and war: the evolution of thought and practice since1945 - A. V. Lowe, 2008

Book | Chapter: Walzer, Michael 'The Security Council and Humanitarian Intervention',pp. 535-62.

Responsibility to Protect or Trojan Horse? The Crisis in Darfur and HumanitarianIntervention after Iraq - Alex J. Bellamy, 2005

Article | Journal not available at Brookes Library

The Delusion of Impartial Intervention - Richard K. Betts, 1994Article

Intervention in world politics - Hedley Bull, 1986Book | Book not available at Brookes Library

Ethics and foreign intervention - Deen K. Chatterjee, Don E. Scheid, 2003Book | Chapter: Coady, C.A.J., “War for Humanity: A Critique,‟ pp.

274-95.

Beyond Westphalia?: state sovereignty and international intervention - Gene Lyons,Michael Mastanduno, 1995

Book | Kratochwil, Friedrich. "Sovereignty as Dominium: Is There A Right ofHumanitarian Intervention?", pp. 21-42.

Just intervention - Anthony F. Lang, c2003Book

Hard choices: moral dilemmas in humanitarian intervention - Jonathan Moore, 1998Book

Expanding global military capacity for humanitarian intervention - Michael E. O'Hanlon,c2003

Book

Reading humanitarian intervention: human rights and the use of force in international law- Anne Orford, 2003

Book

Humanitarian intervention in contemporary conflict: a reconceptualization - OliverRamsbotham, Tom Woodhouse, 1996

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Humanitarian action in war: aid, protection and impartiality in a policy vacuum - AdamRoberts, International Institute for Strategic Studies, c1996

Book

Condemned to repeat?: the paradox of humanitarian action - Fiona Terry, 2002Book

From Kosovo to Syria: the transformation of NATO Secretaries General's discourse onmilitary humanitarian intervention - Tal Dingott Alkopher, 2016

Article

Week 10 - Rights in Practice 4: Women’s Rights as Human Rights (26items)

What are the central issues concerning human rights for women? Are existing humanrights instruments capable of advancing the welfare of women? What prospects orproblems do feminism and difference present to the transnational project of women’srights? Drawing on a number of prominent examples we will look at how the use of rightscan be both positive and negative for women, depending on the contexts in which womenare situated

Essential Reading (3 items)No textbook readings this week.

Becoming Human: The Origins and Development of Women's Human Rights - Arvonne S.Fraser, 1999

Article | Essential

Reclaiming a Human Rights Culture: Feminism of Difference and Alliance - M. DuttChapter | Essential

Women’s Rights as Human Rights: The Transnational Production of Global FeministSubjects - Inderpal Grewal, 2005

Chapter | Essential

Further Reading (22 items)

Faith and freedom: women's human rights in the Muslim world - Mahnaz Afkhami, 1995Book

The changing political economy of the third world - Manochehr Dorraj, 1995Book | Chapter: Arat, Z. (1995) “Women Under Layers of Oppression: The (Un)changing

Political Economy of Gender”

Human Rights: A Feminist Perspective - Gayle Binion, 1995Article

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The human rights revolution: an international history - Akira Iriye, Petra Goedde, William I.Hitchcock, 2012

Book | Chapter: Black, A. (2011) 'Are Women 'Human'? The U.N. and the Struggle toRecognize Women's Rights as Human Rights'

Enemies or Allies? Feminism and Cultural Relativism as Dissident Voices in Human RightsDiscourse - Eva Brems, 1997

Article

Routledge international encyclopedia of women: global women's issues and knowledge -Cheris Kramarae, Dale Spender, 2000

Book | Chapter: Bunch, Charlotte, and Samantha Frost (2000), “Women’s HumanRights: An Introduction”

Women's Rights as Human Rights: Toward a Re-Vision of Human Rights - Charlotte Bunch,1990

Article

Human rights of women: national and international perspectives - Rebecca J. Cook, 1994Book | Chapter: Charlesworth, H. (1994) “What are ‘Women's International Human

Rights’?

Women's Rights Are Human Rights - Hillary Rodham Clinton, 1996Article

New directions in feminism and human rights - 2014Book

Women's Human Rights and African Customary Laws: Between Universalism andRelativism--Individualism and Communitarianism. - Anne Hellum, 1998

Article

Women's rights: a Human rights quarterly reader - Bert B. Lockwood, c2006Book

The philosophy of human rights - Patrick Hayden, 2001Book | Chapter: MacKinnon, C (2001) “Rape, Genocide, and Women’s Human Rights”

Rights: sociological perspectives - Lydia Morris, 2006Book | Chapter: Morris, L. (2006), “Women’s Rights are Human Rights: Campaigns and

Concepts”

Capabilities and Human Rights - M. Nussbaum, 1997Article

Women, culture and development: a study of human capabilities - Martha C. Nussbaum,Jonathan Glover, 1995

Book | Chapter: Nussbaum, M. (1995) ‘Human Capabilities, Female Human Bodies”.Pages 61-105

Feminism, women's human rights, and cultural differences. - Susan Moller Okin, 1998

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Article

Women's rights, human rights: international feminist perspectives - Julie Peters, AndreaWolper, 1995

Book | Chapter: Rao, A. (1995) 'The Politics of Gender and Culture in InternationalHuman Rights Discourse'

The philosophy of human rights - Patrick Hayden, 2001Book | Chapter: Rao, A (2001) 'Right in the Home: Feminist Theoretical Perspectives on

International Human Rights'

Seeking justice : the prosecution of sexual violence in the Congo War - Human RightsWatch, 2005

Document

The human rights revolution: an international history - Akira Iriye, Petra Goedde, William I.Hitchcock, 2012

Book | Chapter: Shannon, K. (2011) 'The Right to Bodily Integrity: Women's Rights asHuman Rights and the International Movement to End Female Genital Mutilation,1970s-1990s'

Women's Human Rights and the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights - Donna J.Sullivan, 1994

Article

Week 11 - Rights in Practice 5: Multinational Corporations and HumanRights (15 items)

The question of the relationship of business to society is a long-standing one. However, ina more global world of laissez-faire neo-liberal governance that role has becomeincreasingly problematic. Different institutional and business initiatives and discourses,such as Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Citizenship, have been elaboratedwhich attempt to influence business practices to provide business with a social licence tooperate and achieve social legitimacy. In relation to human rights, are businessesprotecting, doing no harm, or in fact doing harm? We will explore the context in whichbusiness and human rights norms have started to develop. Then we will focus on thepolitical, moral and legal arguments underpinning debates on business responsibility forhuman rights: is it about protecting or respecting? Is it about responsibility or duty? Is itabout positive or negative responsibility? Should it be binding or voluntary? With whatscope? 

Essential Reading (4 items)No textbook readings this week.

Business and Human Rights: The Evolving International Agenda - John Gerard Ruggie, 2007Article | Essential

The Ruggie Framework: An Adequate Rubric for Corporate Human Rights Obligations? -David Bilchitz, 2009

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Article | Essential

Ethics, Enlightened Self-Interest, and the Corporate Responsibility to Respect HumanRights: A Critical Look at the Justificatory Foundations of the UN Framework. - WesleyCragg, 2012

Article | Essential

Corporate Responsibility for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Rights in Search of aRemedy? - Justine Nolan, Luke Taylor, 2009

Article | Essential

Further Reading (10 items)

Transnational Corporations and the Duty to Respect Basic Human Rights. - Denis G. Arnold, 2010

Article

Corporate social and human rights responsibilities: global, legal, and managementperspectives - Karin Buhmann, Lynn M. Roseberry, Mette Morsing, 2011, [i.e. 2010

Book

Human Rights and Business Ethics: Fashioning a New Social Contract. - Wesley Cragg,2000

Article

Human Rights Obligations of Business: Beyond the Corporate Responsibility to Respect? -2013

Book

Private Political Authority and Public Responsibility: Transnational Politics, TransnationalFirms, and Human Rights. - Stephen J. Kobrin, 2009

Article

Multinational Corporations and the Ethics of Global Responsibility: Problems andPossibilities - Mahmood Monshipouri, Claude E. Welch Jr., Evan T. Kennedy, 2003

Article

Human rights and multinationals: is there a problem? - Peter T. Muchlinski, 2001Article

Implementing the New UN Corporate Human Rights Framework: Implications for CorporateLaw, Governance, and Regulation. - Peter Muchlinski, 2012

Article

Just business: multinational corporations and human rights - John Gerard Ruggie, 2013Book

The New Political Role of Business in a Globalized World: A Review of a New Perspective onCSR and its Implications for the Firm, Governance, and Democracy - Andreas GeorgScherer, Guido Palazzo, 2011

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Selected websites and other useful resources (25 items)

Universal Declaration of Human Rights | United NationsWebpage

Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human RightsWebpage

United Nations Human Rights CouncilWebpage

Human Rights Treaty BodiesWebpage

UN Women Watch | Curated news and events on gender equality from across the UnitedNations

Website

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against WomenWebpage

Indigenous peoplesWebpage

UNICEFWebsite

INTERPOL Trafficking in human beingsWebpage

International Programme on the Elimination of Child LabourArticle

Special Rapporteur on traffickingWebpage

UN Global CompactWebsite

Business & Human Rights Resource CentreWebsite

Human Rights and Business Dilemmas ForumWebsite

UN High Commissioner for RefugeesWebsite

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United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)Website

United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for RwandaWebsite

International Criminal Tribunal for the former YugoslaviaWebsite

Refugee CouncilWebsite

Death Penalty Information CenterWebsite

Amnesty InternationalWebpage

Anti-SlaveryWebpage

Human Rights Library- University of MinnesotaWebsite

Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM)Webpage

United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education (1995-2004)Webpage

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