Скачать или смотреть An Interview with Stephen Hopgood on the Endtimes of Human Rights

Stephen Hopgood (professor of international relations and co-director of the Centre for the International Politics of Conflict, Rights and Justice (CCRJ) at SOAS) explains some of the key conclusions from his book The Endtimes of Human Rights.

One vision of human rights sees their future as one of increasing influence, compliance, and impact, where global institutions like the ICC, R2P, and the emerging Convention on Crimes Against Humanity yield genuine improvements in the everyday lives of people all over the world. Hopgood expresses significant scepticism about this utopian picture for two principal reasons. First, sovereignty, far from being tamed, is making a comeback, aided in part by the relative decline of Western power and influence. Second, religion, too, is back (not that it ever went away), unavoidably creating a fault line on major social and political issues with human rights advocates for whom the prize is a world of independent, autonomous, and free individuals with the power to veto any and all collective authorities. More law is not the answer. The toleration of substantial diversity is unavoidable, while the privileging of local mobilization, along with the development of middle class constituencies, is the most promising avenue for normative change. More economic growth, not human rights, in other words, is the place to start.

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