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SEP 4, 1995 • Article

Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 1, Number 2 (Fall 1995): About the Human Rights Initiative: Articles: The Language of Human Rights in East Asia

Human rights are widely advocated for their instrumental worth, but this strategy may change. Political and civil rights may eventually be championed for their own ...

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Morgenthau Memorial Lecture, 1995

MAY 26, 1995 • Article

Morgenthau Lecture: The New Dimensions of Human Rights

"The interface between ethics and science will hence be the new frontier of politics—the third new dimension of human rights," warns Zbigniew Brzezinski. 

DEC 7, 1994 • Article

Nizer Lectures (1994–1998): William Faulkner's Old Verities: "It's Planting Time in America"

"Faulkner's words stir a dark, punishing wisdom, a plain, spare design for civic conduct," says Jack Valenti. Introduction by Robert Myers.

Portrait of Hans J. Morgenthau by O. Donnandi.

MAY 26, 1994 • Article

Morgenthau Lecture: Intervention: From Theories to Cases

J. Bryan Hehir argues that the legal norm against intervention in other nations' affairs is eroded once it is impossible to ignore human rights violations.

MAY 4, 1994 • Article

Privatization Project (1991–1994): Privatization and Investment Opportunities in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan has enormous resources and a literate population, but this large country is heir to exploitative methods of economic development that have ravaged the environment.

MAY 4, 1994 • Article

Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 1, Number 1 (Spring 1994): Human Rights in the Post-Cold War Era: Articles: Refining Definitions of Human Rights

There is agreement in the West that human rights are absolute, but diverse opinion about the place of human rights in foreign affairs.&...

MAY 4, 1994 • Article

Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 1, Number 1 (Spring 1994): Human Rights in the Post-Cold War Era: Articles: What Can and Should the International Community Do to Promote Human Rights?

In opening a discussion of human rights, countries must consider cultural and security contexts. The key to an effective human rights policy is ...

MAY 4, 1994 • Article

Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 1, Number 1 (Spring 1994): Human Rights in the Post-Cold War Era: Articles: In Conclusion

This report deals especially with what the international human rights community should do to promote human rights in Asia. In doing so, it also describes ...

MAY 4, 1994 • Article

Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 1, Number 1 (Spring 1994): Human Rights in the Post-Cold War Era: Articles: The Republic of Korea's Role in the Emerging Debate

While only a few years ago, Korea was alarming the international human rights community with egregious human rights violations toward its citizens, in 1993 it&...

MAR 2, 1994 • Article

Privatization Project (1991–1994): Improving Municipal Services through Empowerment

"There is no more clear experience of what happens when you allow government to establish a monopoly than that of driving a Trabant versus driving ...