Add to ORKGAs the United States moves toward the inauguration in January 2009 of a new President, greater attention is paid to what the country might do to restore and reinforce its traditional role as a leader in the promotion of human rights. This essay warns against any assumption that innovation alone will assure greater enforcement of rights; its points of reference are not only the current administration, but also one long past, that of President John F. Kennedy. Rather than jump to embrace new, global concepts like responsibility to protect, therefore, it argues for careful pursuit of local change. It then turns analysis on the locality of the United States, calling for genuine efforts to address rights issues already acute at home, ...
To address the underlying and unresolved human problems of injustice and despair, the Lecture argues...
Progress in human rights is one of the hallmark achievements of the last century. In 1914, more than...
Let me begin by expressing my gratitude to the editors of this volume, and to the University of Newc...
As the United States moves toward the inauguration in January 2009 of a new President, greater att...
Human rights have suffered sharp setbacks in the four years since the paper that follows was deliver...
The author, who was the U.S. Ambassador to the human rights conference, discusses the American tradi...
The United States prides itself on being a champion of human rights and pressures other countries to...
This essay asks whether international human rights arguments are likely to be effective in advancing...
In response to Professor Harold Hongju Koh\u27s March 2017 keynote at Washburn University, The Trum...
In scholarly discourse about rights, it is often assumed that democracy is bad for rights. Rights pr...
The challenge that human rights face today have not come out of the blue. Rather they are the result...
While human rights are often discussed as international standards, they are realized first and forem...
Human rights are increasingly described as in crisis. The rising populist tide that puts nation, rel...
This essay reviews Professor Jamie Mayerfeld\u27s book, The Promise of Human Rights. I am sympatheti...
The US’s authority as chief enforcer of human rights grows increasingly illusory as civil unrest bri...
To address the underlying and unresolved human problems of injustice and despair, the Lecture argues...
Progress in human rights is one of the hallmark achievements of the last century. In 1914, more than...
Let me begin by expressing my gratitude to the editors of this volume, and to the University of Newc...
As the United States moves toward the inauguration in January 2009 of a new President, greater att...
Human rights have suffered sharp setbacks in the four years since the paper that follows was deliver...
The author, who was the U.S. Ambassador to the human rights conference, discusses the American tradi...
The United States prides itself on being a champion of human rights and pressures other countries to...
This essay asks whether international human rights arguments are likely to be effective in advancing...
In response to Professor Harold Hongju Koh\u27s March 2017 keynote at Washburn University, The Trum...
In scholarly discourse about rights, it is often assumed that democracy is bad for rights. Rights pr...
The challenge that human rights face today have not come out of the blue. Rather they are the result...
While human rights are often discussed as international standards, they are realized first and forem...
Human rights are increasingly described as in crisis. The rising populist tide that puts nation, rel...
This essay reviews Professor Jamie Mayerfeld\u27s book, The Promise of Human Rights. I am sympatheti...
The US’s authority as chief enforcer of human rights grows increasingly illusory as civil unrest bri...
To address the underlying and unresolved human problems of injustice and despair, the Lecture argues...
Progress in human rights is one of the hallmark achievements of the last century. In 1914, more than...
Let me begin by expressing my gratitude to the editors of this volume, and to the University of Newc...