Human rights as settled norms: Mervyn Frost and the limits of Hegelian human rights theory

Sutch, Peter

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“…The element of Frost's account central to our argument is his linkage between sovereignty, legitimacy, and the worldwide development of human rights culture (Sutch, 2000). In particular, Frost (1996: 93-159) challenges the notion of a dichotomy between sovereignty and respect for human rights.…”

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Human Rights Rogues in Interstate Disputes, 1980–2001

Caprioli

Trumbore

2006

Journal of Peace Research

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Rogue states have typically been characterized as those states that consistently violate accepted international norms of behavior. While US foreign policymakers and policy analysts have identified rogue states as those violating a narrow set of international norms of external conduct, specifically terrorism sponsorship and illicit pursuit of banned weapons, this article proposes an alternative understanding of rogue state status that harks back to earlier notions of international pariah states, isolated from the rest of international society, owing to their egregious treatment of their own citizens. Building on Galtung's concept of structural violence and feminist insights concerning the interconnectedness of violence at all levels of human society, the authors develop a rogue state index to identify human rights rogues, based on ethnic and gender discrimination and the violation of personal integrity rights. An important part of the rogue state formula developed by policymakers over the recent decades is the expectation that such states represent dangers to international peace and stability. Focusing on the recognized international human rights norms of non-discrimination and security of person, and informed by the causal mechanisms inherent in the normative explanation for the democratic peace, this article tests whether human rights rogues are more likely to become involved in militarized interstate conflicts and violent interstate conflicts. The results of the analysis show that human rights rogues are more likely to become involved in militarized interstate disputes in general, and violent interstate disputes specifically, than other states during the period 1980–2001, suggesting that policymakers must keep a close watch on serial human rights abusers, while seeking to identify future threats to international security.

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Section: Which Norms Matter? Human Rights Roguesmentioning

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Human Rights Rogues in Interstate Disputes, 1980–2001

Caprioli

Trumbore

2006

Journal of Peace Research

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“…Third, the norms literature provides insights on the constitutive nature of the diffused norms and their impact. It has focused on a broad variety of norms, such as human rights (Keck and Sikkink 1998; Merry 2006; Powell 2004; Risse et al 1999; Sutch 2000), disarmament and non‐proliferation (Carpenter 2011; Müller and Wunderlich 2018; Price 1998; Wunderlich 2011), environmental conservation (Deitelhoff and Zimmermann 2018; Keck and Sikkink 1998), labor standards (Payne 2001), transitional justice (Boesenecker and Vinjamuri 2011; de Greif 2010; Sriram 2007; McEvoy and McGregor 2008; Shaw 2005; Shaw et al 2010), and the responsibility to protect (Acharya 2013a; Bellamy 2013; Kirn 2011; Prantl and Nakano 2011). Aiming to show the independent causal force of norms as a rebuttal to rationalist accounts, early constructivists examined the rise of new norms in the international system and traced changes not only in the behavior of actors, but also in their interests, which facilitated the adoption of these new norms (Finnemore and Sikkink 1998; Keck and Sikkink 1998; Klotz 1995; Risse and Sikkink 1999).…”

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How Norms Matter in Mediation: An Introduction

Hellmüller

Pring

Richmond

2020

Swiss Political Sci Review

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International mediators are often tasked to promote liberal norms. However, dilemmas created in diffusing these norms, influenced by the mediators' interaction with the conflict parties and a decline of the liberal international order, have fueled debates about how norms are diffused through mediation, whether mediators should and can promote norms, and what norms they promote. The IR literature provides rich theoretical frameworks on norms, which could help navigate these questions. Yet, mediation scholars have not systematically integrated ideational aspects in their analyses. This Special Issue fills this gap by providing the first comprehensive analysis of how norms matter in mediation. It thereby not only shares novel analytical insights on norms in mediation, but also enriches the conceptualizations of three central notions in the norms literature: the norm diffusion process, the agency of actors, and the nature of the diffused norms.

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Justice, Community and Dialogue in International Relations

Shapcott

2001

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Shapcott investigates the question of justice in a culturally diverse world, asking if it is possible to conceive of a universal or cosmopolitan community in which justice to difference is achieved. Justice to difference is possible, according to Shapcott, by recognising the particular manner in which different humans identify themselves. Such recognition is most successfully accomplished through acts of communication, and in particular, conversation. The accounts of understanding developed by H. G. Gadamer provide a valuable way forward in this field. The philosophical hermeneutic account of conversation allows for the development of a level of cosmopolitan solidarity that is both 'thin' and universal, and which helps to provide a more just resolution of the tension between the values of community and difference. Students and scholars of international relations, international ethics and philosophy will be interested in this original study.

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Human rights as settled norms: Mervyn Frost and the limits of Hegelian human rights theory

Cited by 17 publications

References 3 publications

Human Rights Rogues in Interstate Disputes, 1980–2001

Human Rights Rogues in Interstate Disputes, 1980–2001

How Norms Matter in Mediation: An Introduction

Justice, Community and Dialogue in International Relations

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