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NOV 7, 2019 • Journal Online Exclusive

Rights as Weapons: A Rejoinder

It is an honor for Ethics & International Affairs to have chosen my book, Rights as Weapons: Instruments of Conflict, Tools of Power, for an online ...

Clifford Bob

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Rethinking the Politics of Rights

Many international human rights advocates have long assumed that rights are natural, universal, indivisible, and absolute–or, as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights puts ...

Rebecca Sanders

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Law, Morality, and Culture in Rights as Weapons

I distinctly remember meeting Clifford Bob three years ago at an International Studies Association conference, and learning about the fascinating ways in which Catalan nationalists ...

Zoltán Búzás

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Ends and Means: A Response to Rights as Weapons

In Clifford Bob’s latest book, Rights as Weapons, he argues that rights are not political ends in themselves but are rather an effective means ...

Hye Yun Kang

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Sources of Firepower for Weaponized Rights

“Rights” are often portrayed as things that are universal, apolitical, inherent, or natural, and as ends in themselves. But what if “rights” are mere rhetoric, ...

Kevin D. Pham

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Ruling by Rights: Rule Making and Embedded Normativity

Clifford Bob’s Rights as Weapons offers a gripping description of the manifold ways people use rights-claims to attain strategic goals. In addition to using ...

Horia M. Dijmarescu

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A Conversation about the Politics of Rights within Rights as Weapons

Clifford Bob’s book Rights as Weapons: Instruments of Conflict, Tools of Power builds a powerful argument that rights can be weapons of political conflict. ...

Nathalia Justo

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NOV 7, 2019 • Journal Online Exclusive