Recent Articles
JUN 5, 1998 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 1, Number 11 (Summer 1998): Toward a "Social Foreign Policy" with Asia: Exploring Commonality: On International NGO Cooperation: A View from the American Grassroots
Madelyn Hoffman discovered that a great many of the political and social concerns of Asians are shared by Americans who work diligently at the grassroots ...
JUN 5, 1998 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 1, Number 11 (Summer 1998): Toward a "Social Foreign Policy" with Asia: Exploring Commonality: Developing a "Social Foreign Policy" for the Lived Realities of Migrant Workers
Irene Fernandez recognizes that economic, social, and cultural rights receive less attention in the international community than do civil and political rights, hence a "social ...
JUN 5, 1998 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 1, Number 11 (Summer 1998): Toward a "Social Foreign Policy" with Asia: Cultural and Institutional Requisites for a Shared Problems Approach: The Challenges to a Shared Problems Approach to Foreign Policy
Catharin Dalpino asks, how do you nudge the U.S. government toward a shared problems approach? Dalpino has some recommendations and address the obstacles in ...
JUN 5, 1998 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 1, Number 11 (Summer 1998): Toward a "Social Foreign Policy" with Asia: Cultural and Institutional Requisites for a Shared Problems Approach: Does Culture Matter?
Abdullahi A. An-Naím addresses the problem of culture’s relevance. In particular he underscores the notion that globalization is not a power-neutral process.
MAY 12, 1998 • Article
Morgenthau Lectures (1981–2006): Directions in U.S. Foreign Policy: Interests and Ideals
On the one hand, more people (in Africa, Asia, and elsewhere) are living in democracies, thanks in large part to globalization. On the other, there ...
NOV 25, 1997 • Article
Nizer Lectures (1994–1998): Technology and Social Justice
"How can we make ethics drive technology in such a way that the evil consequences are minimized and the good maximized?" In this insightful and ...
SEP 5, 1997 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 1, Number 10 (Fall 1997): Efforts, East and West, to Improve Human Rights Assessments: Articles: ESC Rights Assessments at the UN
United Nations system for monitoring implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), is done by the Committee on Economic, Social, ...
SEP 5, 1997 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 1, Number 10 (Fall 1997): Efforts, East and West, to Improve Human Rights Assessments: Articles: The Need for an Intercivilizational Approach to Evaluating Human Rights
Onuma Yasuaki is engaged in a critique of some of the standards currently used by Western NGOs to assess the state of human rights within ...
SEP 5, 1997 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 1, Number 10 (Fall 1997): Efforts, East and West, to Improve Human Rights Assessments: Articles: Human Rights for the Next Century
Chris Jochnick provides his view on the future of human rights along with the predicted efforts of the United Nations and other NGOs.
SEP 5, 1997 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 1, Number 10 (Fall 1997): Efforts, East and West, to Improve Human Rights Assessments: Articles: "The West" Is Not Only the United States: European Assessments of Human Rights
Peter R. Baehr analyzes the human rights of European nations. These countries continue to contribute to the development of more balanced human rights assessments in ...