Human rights and democracy in a global context: decoupling and recoupling
Human rights and democracy have been regarded as a mutually reinforcing couple by many political theorists to date. The internationalisation of human rights post-1945 is often said to have severed those links, however. Accounting for the legitimacy of international human rights requires exploring ho...
Main Author: | Samantha Besson |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis Group
2011-03-01
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Series: | Ethics & Global Politics |
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Online Access: | http://www.ethicsandglobalpolitics.net/index.php/egp/article/view/6348/7957 |
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