Week 12

Key IR Areas III and Pressing Challenges I

Session 23: Human Rights and Humanitarianism

Required readings:

  • Marie-Bénédicte Dembour, “What Are Human Rights? Four Schools of Thought,” Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 1 (February 2010): 1-20

Recommended readings:

  • Tobias Berger, “Human Rights beyond the Liberal Script: A Morphological Approach,” International Studies Quarterly, vol. 67, no. 3 (September 2023).
  • Rochelle Terman and Zoltán I. Buzás, “A House Divided: Norm Fragmentation in the International Human Rights Regime,” International Studies Quarterly, vol. 65, no. 2 (June 2021): 488-499.
  • United Nations Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR), The Core International Human Rights Instruments and their Monitoring Bodies. You can read the site plus all of the information on the pull-down menu bar above on: What are human rights? Topics, Instruments & mechanisms.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 10 December 1948. Public Domain.

Session 24: International Immigration

Required readings:

  • Goldin, Ian, et al. “Leaving Home: Migration Decisions and Processes.” Exceptional People, Princeton University Press, 2019, pp. 97–120.

Recommended readings:

  • Joppke, Christian. “Why Liberal States Accept Unwanted Immigration.” World Politics 50, no. 2 (1998): 266-293.
  • Hollifield, James F, et al. “The Dilemmas of Immigration Control in Liberal Democracies.” Controlling Immigration, edited by James F Hollifield et al., Stanford University Press, 2022, pp. 3–51.