2014 Fall / IDC 315

Human Rights in Global and Regional Context:

a Risk-Based Approach

Korea University Graduate School of International Studies

Tuesday2.00 pm-5:00pm

Professor Soh Changrok

Graduate School of International Studies

Tel: 3290 – 2402

Fax: 929 – 0402

Email:

Office Hours: By Appointment

  1. Course Overview

This course brings Human Rights into the international scene by giving importance to students’ ability to conceptualize Human Rights and ability to place Human Rights in various dimensions. International and Global Regimes of Human Rights will also be explored in order to see a collective trend of Human Rights movement around the globe for the past ten years. Since Asia is a new avenue for Human Rights proliferation, such potentials will be discussed and examined. This includes various relationships of Human Rights with foreign policy, development, culture, economy and security. Students are expected to understand how these entities have been impacted by Human Rights and vice versa. Case study research and presentation are expected throughout this course. Guest speakers will likely to be invited, to expose students with hands on experience dealing with Human Rights.

  1. Course Requirements

All students will be provided with reading materials, in which are expected to be digested prior attending lectures. This simply means, attendance is mandatory unless valid reason(s) be notified beforehand. While the lecture will be focusing on the materials, additional perspectives and case studies are expected from the students. In addition, few case studies will be assigned for half an hour presentation and 40 minute discussion in the second part of the course. There will be an in-class midterm and final examination to test on students’ grasp on theories and framework of the course.

  1. Course Evaluation
  1. Class Attendance 10%
  2. Case StudyPresent 20%
  3. Class Participation 10%
  4. Midterm 30%
  5. Final Examination 30%
  1. Course readings

Reading materials are available for purchase.

  1. Course Outline

Week 1: Introduction

Tuesday (9/2): Class Logistics and Course Briefing

Week 2: Thanksgiving Vacation

Tuesday (9/9):

Week 3: What are Human Rights? Universalism vs. Relativisim

Tuesday (9/16):

  • Claude, Richard P., Weston, Burns H. 1992. Chapter 1 in Human Rights in the World Community (University of Pennsylvania Press).
  • Donnelly, Jack. 2003. “Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice.” Cornell University Press, p. 1-21.
  • Sen, Amartya. 2004. “Elements of a Theory of Human Rights”. Philosophy and Public Affairs Vol. 32, No. 4. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, Inc.
  • Donnelly, Jack. 2003. “Markets, States and the West. Non-Western Conceptions of Human Rights.” In Universal Human Rights: in Theory and Practice (Cornell University Press) pp. 57-88
  • Ackerly, Brooke A. 2008. “Universalisms and Differences.” In Universal Human Rights in a World of Difference (Cambridge University Press)
  • Dallmayr, F. 2002. “Asian Values and Global Human Rights.” Philosophy East & West, 52 (2), 173.

Week 4: International and Regional Human Rights Regime

Tuesday (9/23):

  • Donnelly, Jack. 2003. “International Human Rights Regimes.” In Universal Human Rights: in Theory and Practice (Cornell University Press) pp. 127-154
  • Moravcsik, Andrew. 2000. “The Origins of Human Rights Regimes: Democratic Delegation in Postwar Europe.” International Organization 54: 217-252
  • Pubantz, Jerry. 2005. “Constructing Reason: Human Rights and the Democratization of the United Nations.”Social Forces 84: 1291-1302
  • Weissbrodt, David and Connie de la Vega. 2007. “International Human Rights Law: An Introduction.” Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Press. Pp. 311-341.
  • Soh, Changrok. 2007. “Enhancing Human Security in North Korea through Development of a Human Rights Regime in Asia.”Korea Review of International Studies Vol. 10, No. 1. Seoul: Global Research Institute Korea University.
  • Maria-Gabriela, Manea. 2008. “Human Rights and the interregional dialogue between Asia and Europe: ASEAN-EU relations and ASEM.”The Pacific Review, Vol. 21 No.3. London: Routledge.
  • Kraft, Herman Joseph S. 2005. “Human Rights in Southeast Asia: The Search for Regional Norms.” East-West Center Washington Working Papers No. 4. Washington: East-West Center.

Week 5: Foreign Policy and Cultural Relativism

Tuesday (9/30): Students’ Presentation 1

  • Claude, Richard Pierre and Weston Burns ed. 1992. Human Rights in the World Community Issues and Action. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Pp. 286-320.
  • Dembour, M. 2001. Following the Movement of a Pendulum: Between Universalism and Relativism, in Cowan, J., Dembour, M., and Wilson, R., (eds) Culture and Rights: Anthropological Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Donnelly, J., 2000. An Overview in: Forsythe, D.P. (ed.), Human Rights and Comparative Foreign Policy, Tokyo: United Nations University Press, pp. 310-334.
  • Dallymayr F. 2002. Asian Values and Global Human Rights. Philosophy East and West, 52 (2), 173.
  • Teeple, Gary. 2005. The Riddle of Human Rights. Aurora: Garamond Press. [Chapter 5. The Curious Unanimity]
  • Ignatieff, M. 2001. Human Rights as Politics, in Gutmann, A. (ed.), Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry, NJ: Princeton University Press. pp.3-52

Week 6: Non-State Actors and Human Rights

Tuesday: (10/7): Students’ Presentation 2

  • Clapham, Andrew. 2006. “Human Rights Obligations of Non-State Actors.” Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 195-270
  • Pegg, Scott ed. “An Emerging Market for the New Millennium: Transnational Corporations and Human Rights.” In Transnational Corporations and Human Rights. NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Welch, Jr., Claude E. 2001. “NGOs and Human Rights: Promise and Performance.” Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press. P. 1-13.
  • Mutua, Makau. “Human Rights International NGOs.” In NGOs and Human Rights: Promise and Performance. Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Week 7: Human Rights and Development

Tuesday (10/14): Students’ Presentation 3

  • Alston, Philip and Robinson, Mary ed. “The Challenges of Ensuring the Mutuality of Human Rights and Development Endeavor.” In Alston, Philip and Robinson, Mary. 2005. Human Rights and Development, Oxford University Press.
  • Olivier de Schutter. “Transnational Corporation as Instruments of Human Development.” In Alston, Philip and Robinson, Mary ed. 2005. Human Rights and Development, Oxford University Press.
  • Wolfensohn, James D. “Some Reflections on Human Rights and Development.” In Alston, Philip and Robinson, Mary ed. 2005. Human Rights and Development. Oxford University Press.

Week 8: Assessment

Tuesday (10/21): Mid-Term

Week 9: Business and Human Rights

Tuesday (10/28): Students’ Presentation 4

  • David Weissbrodt, “Business and Human Rights” 74 U. Cin. L. Rev. 55 (2005-2006)
  • John Ruggie, “Business and Human Rights: The Evolving International Agenda” The American Journal of International Law Vol. 101, No. 4 (Oct., 2007), pp. 819-840.
  • David Weissbrodt and Maria Kruger, “Norms on the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with Regard to Human Rights” The American Journal of International Law Vol. 97, No. 4 (Oct., 2003), pp. 901-922.

Week 10: Proposal Presentation

Tuesday (11/4):

Week 11: Humanitarian Intervention: Use of Force to Save Lives

Tuesday (11/11):Students’ Presentation 5

Smith, Michael. “Humanitarian Intervention: An Overview of Ethical Issues.” Ethics and International Affairs 12 (1998): 271-295.

BarryR.Posen."Military Responses to Refugee Disasters."InternationalSecurity 21, No. 1 (Summer 1996): 72-111.

Luttwak, Edward. “Give War a Chance.” Foreign Affairs (July/August 1999): 36-44.

Gareth Evans and Mohamed Sahnoun, "The Responsibility to Protect," Foreign Affairs 81, No. 6 (November/December 2002): 99-110.

Michael W. Doyle, "The Folly of Protection: Is Intervention Against Qaddafi's Regime Legal and Legitimate?" inThe New Arab Revolt(Washington D.C.: Council on Foreign Relations, 2011): 263-268.

Week 12: Special Lectures on Islam and Human Rights; Cosmopolitan Memories

Tuesday (11/18):

Week 13: Current Challenges of Refugee Protection and Humanitarian Emergencies

Tuesday (11/25): Students’ Presentation 6

  • Zolberg, A. & Benda, P. 2001. “Global Migrants, Global Refugees: Problems and Solutions.” Oxford: Bergaghn: 1-19
  • Haddad, Emma. 2008. “The Refugee in International Society: Between Sovereigns.” Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press: 1-19, 70-96.
  • Smith, Michael. “Humanitarian Intervention: An Overview of Ethical Issues.” Ethics and International Affairs 12 (1998): 271-295
  • Gareth Evans and Mohamed Sahnoun, “The Responsibility to Protect,” Foreign Affairs 81, No. 6 (November/December 2002): 99-110.
  • Morten Buus, Juliet Charman, Philippa Lawson, and Oliver Smythe, “Now A Necessity to Intervene in Syria on Humanitarian Grounds? Human Security vs Power Politics Dilemma 2013, University of Exeter, 2013.

Week 14: Humanitarianism and Human Rights

Tuesday (12/2): Students’ Presentation 7

  • Barnett, Michael and Thomas G. Weiss. 2011. Humanitarianism Contested: where angels fear to tread. Routledge: New York. Chapter 2. (pp. 8-32)
  • Chandler, David. 2001. The Road to Military Humanitarianism: How the Human Rights NGOs Shaped a New Humanitarian Agenda. Human Rights Quarterly 23, no. 3: 678-700.
  • Fox, Fiona. 2001. New Humanitarianism: Does It Provide a Moral Banner for the 21st Century? Disasters. Vol. 25, Issue 4.
  • Slim, Hugo. 2002. Not Philantrophy but Rights: The proper politicization of humanitarian philosophy.Centre for Development and Emergency Practice, Oxford Brookes University.
  • Flanagan-Rieffer, Barbara Ann. 2009. Is Neutral Humanitarianism Dead? Red Cross Neutrality: Walking in the Tightrope of Neutral Humanitarianism. Human Rights Quarterly 31, no.: pp. 888-915.

Week 15: Assessment

Tuesday (12/9): Final Examination

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