Foreign Policy Essay
In Pursuit of North Korean Human Rights and Denuclearization
Andrew Yeo Sun, Mar 18, 2018, 10:00 AM
The diplomatic opening with Pyongyang is the right time to pressure Kim Jong Un on human rights.
Latest in human rights
National Security Strategy
To Strengthen Trump’s National Security Approach, Promote Human Rights
John Bellinger, Richard Fontaine Wed, Jan 10, 2018, 7:00 AM
President Donald Trump has signaled an interest in human rights in Iran. It’s a shame his National Security Strategy gives such rights short shrift.
China
China is Getting Better at Undermining Global Human Rights
Thomas Kellogg Wed, Oct 18, 2017, 4:30 PM
On [email protected], Thomas Kellogg examines China's efforts to undermine key U.N. human rights mechanisms.
Book Reviews
The Newest Idealism: Human Rights in US Foreign Policy
Barbara Keys Wed, Apr 19, 2017, 9:03 AM
A review of Joe Renouard, Human Rights in American Foreign Policy: From the 1960s to the Soviet Collapse (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016).
Book Reviews
The Human Rights Agenda and the Struggle Against Impunity
Barrie Sander Mon, Feb 6, 2017, 8:30 AM
A review of Anti-Impunity and the Human Rights Agenda, edited by Karen Engle, Zinaida Miller and D.M. Davis (Cambridge, 2016).
Transition 2016
International Law in the Age of Trump: A Post-Human Rights Agenda
Ingrid Wuerth Mon, Nov 14, 2016, 3:31 PM
The Trump administration should use the post-human rights era as an opportunity to promote a different international law agenda: building a strong core of international law dedicated to protecting international peace and security.
Book Reviews
Global Human Rights in America
Daniel J. Sargent Tue, Oct 25, 2016, 9:24 AM
A review of Mark Bradley's The World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Podcast: Samuel Moyn on “How Warfare Became Both More Humane and Harder to End"
Quinta Jurecic Sat, Oct 22, 2016, 2:08 PM
Samuel Moyn argues that we’ve moved toward a focus on ending war crimes and similar abuses, rather than a focus on preventing war’s outbreak in the first place.
Syria
The Caesar Bill: A Novel Approach to Human Rights Accountability in Syria
Mai El-Sadany Tue, Aug 30, 2016, 1:56 PM
The Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Bill, named for the Syrian military photographer who defected and smuggled photographs documenting Assad’s brutal crimes, embraces and amplifies the evolving and necessary role that the US and the international community must play in curbing impunity for war crimes.
International Law
China, Russia, and International Law
Ingrid Wuerth Mon, Jul 11, 2016, 8:30 AM
Whatever economic problems China and Russia may be experiencing, the foreign policy of both countries of growing importance to global peace and security. Russia’s military intervention in Syria and Ukraine have changed the political and military calculus in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. China’s land reclamation in the South China Sea has made that region into a global hotspot of interstate conflict, one that is unlikely to be diffused by the Permanent Court of Arbitration’s decision in Philippines v. China.