The Concept of International Law

Allott, Philip

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“…See also, for example, BBC News (2011). 10 For one view, see Allott (2001): ''The Degradation of Universal Values: the emergence of potentially universal values after 1945 suffered a deformation as the emerging values were subjected to almost instant rationalization, legalizing, institutionalizing, and bureaucratizing. That is to say, they were corrupted before they could begin to act as transcendental, ideal, supra-societal, critical forces in relation to the emerging absolute statism of society, including democratic society.''…”

Section: The Social Dimension Of International Human Rights Lawmentioning

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Quality circles and human rights: tackling the universalism and cultural relativism divide

Kathrani¹

2012

AI & Soc

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The implementation of international human rights law has traditionally been undermined by the dichotomy between universalism and cultural relativism. Some groups regard human rights as more reflective of other culture's and are unwilling to subscribe to them. One response to this is to enable groups to take co-ownership of human rights. Quality Circles based on institutions and technology, and the collaboration they encourage, provide one such means for doing so. What is required is for states to facilitate rather than undermine and censor these processes. Human Rights Quality Circles at different levels represent one way in which the cultural relativism and universalism division can be addressed, particularly in an ever-globalising world.

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Section: The Social Dimension Of International Human Rights Lawmentioning

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Quality circles and human rights: tackling the universalism and cultural relativism divide

Kathrani¹

2012

AI & Soc

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“…38 Allott (1999), at 46. states. One of the main issues concerning its consolidation is the adoption of a common language of reference to be used by and among as the selecting a venue, the qualities and characteristics of the participants, the sitting arrangement of the negotiators at the table, etc.…”

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Semiotics of International Law

Carvalho¹

2011

Law and Philosophy Library

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“…This disillusionment with the narrow or selfish interests of realpolitik , and its legitimisation through democratic mandates, has resulted in a growing attention to the prioritisation of ethical or moral approaches. Philip Allott (1999, p. 34), for example, argues that traditional international relations theory is based on Machiavellism, ‘the overriding of general moral duty by raison d’etat ’, a paradoxical ‘morality of immorality’. For Allott, this privileging of the political sphere over the ethical meant that international relations theory tended to be innately conservative and uncritical:…”

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“…Those ideas – especially ideas of justice and natural law, but also all those philosophies which speak of ‘the good’ or ‘the good life’– were transcendental and aspirational and critical in character; that is to say they were conceived of as an ideal which could not be overridden or even abridged by the merely actual , and in relation to which the actual should be oriented and would be judged. The ideal makes possible a morality of society (Allott, 1999, p. 35).…”

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New Rights for Old? Cosmopolitan Citizenship and the Critique of State Sovereignty

Chandler

2003

Political Studies

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Cosmopolitan international relations theorists envisage a process of expanding cosmopolitan democracy and global governance, in which for the first time there is the possibility of global issues being addressed on the basis of new forms of democracy, derived from the universal rights of global citizens. They suggest that, rather than focus attention on the territorially limited rights of the citizen at the level of the nation-state, more emphasis should be placed on extending democracy and human rights to the international sphere. This paper raises problems with extending the concept of rights beyond the bounds of the sovereign state, without a mechanism of making these new rights accountable to their subject. The emerging gap, between holders of cosmopolitan rights and those with duties, tends to create dependency rather than to empower. So while the new rights remain tenuous, there is a danger that the cosmopolitan framework can legitimise the abrogation of the existing rights of democracy and self-government preserved in the UN Charter framework.How should we assess the trend towards increasing prominence for individual rights in the international sphere and the restricted interpretation of traditional rights of sovereign independence and self-government? Over the last decade, many leading international relations theorists have developed a cosmopolitan perspective, which sees current trends as benign or potentially positive.

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The Concept of International Law

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Quality circles and human rights: tackling the universalism and cultural relativism divide

Quality circles and human rights: tackling the universalism and cultural relativism divide

Semiotics of International Law

New Rights for Old? Cosmopolitan Citizenship and the Critique of State Sovereignty

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