Recent Articles
FEB 9, 2000 • Article
Democracy Beyond the State: The European Dilemma and the Emerging Global Order
States and citizens within the European Union are now far along in a vast experiment involving an attempt to use the dynamism of market-capitalism to ...
FEB 2, 2000 • Article
Lesson for Israel: Reconciliation Begins at Home
Security issues do not justify many of the inconsistencies in how Israel treats its Arab minority.
DEC 10, 1999 • Article
Managing the Social Consequences of Economic Crisis
Paper presented at the Workshop on Social Policy Principles and The Social Development Agenda Pocantico Conference Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund December 3-5, 1999.
DEC 9, 1999 • Article
The Political Consequences of Global Inequality within and between Regions of the World
Over the past quarter-century, in most of the world, liberal democracy has flourished and the status of women has improved. Yet, during the same period ...
DEC 5, 1999 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 1 (Winter 2000): Human Rights for All? The Problem of the Human Rights Box: Articles: To Our Readers: Human Rights for All? The Problem of the Human Rights Box
In this issue we examine the barriers that prevent a broad cross-section of people from embracing and benefiting from human rights.
DEC 5, 1999 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 1 (Winter 2000): Human Rights for All? The Problem of the Human Rights Box: Articles: Why More Africans Don't Use Human Rights Language
What explains the current crisis of human rights and the retreat from the human rights paradigm as an engine of struggle? To begin to ...
DEC 5, 1999 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 1 (Winter 2000): Human Rights for All? The Problem of the Human Rights Box: Articles: Reflections on Human Rights at Century's End
Larry Cox reflects on the record of human rights throughout the past century as well as what the future holds for the human rights movement ...
DEC 5, 1999 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 1 (Winter 2000): Human Rights for All? The Problem of the Human Rights Box: Articles: Crime: A Latin American Challenge for Human Rights
Carlos Basombrío writes on the the issue of crime in Latin America. Crime presents human rights advocates with challenges that must be resolved if ...
DEC 5, 1999 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 1 (Winter 2000): Human Rights for All? The Problem of the Human Rights Box: Articles: Human Rights in the Aftermath of Kosovo
In the Balkans, where human rights discourse was used to morally justify the loss and destruction of thousands of lives, the human rights language, ...
DEC 5, 1999 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 1 (Winter 2000): Human Rights for All? The Problem of the Human Rights Box: Articles: The Credibility Crisis of International Human Rights in the Arab World
International groups should collaborate with the local Arab movement to develop strategies to build the moral standing of human rights among the public and improve ...