[Peace-discuss] NYT book review on "history of human rights"

[C. G. Estabrook]

  What they're actually talking about is the emergence of the liberal excuse for 
imperialism, "humanitarian intervention," the construction of which became 
necessary after the disappearance of the Communist Menace. After various 
tryouts, it was fully unveiled in Clinton's attack on Serbia.

It's absurd of course for academics to be arguing about /when /"today’s human 
rights movement emerged 'seemingly from nowhere'” without mentioning liberal 
interventionism.  What do they think the Carr Center's /for/?


On 9/26/10 1:10 PM, David Green wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/26/books/review/Cooper-t.html?ref=books
> One would have to look far and wide for an assertion more absurd than this one:
> "Today’s human rights movement emerged “seemingly from nowhere,” Moyn says, as 
> a depoliticized, moral response to disillusionment with revolutionary 
> political projects, specifically the anticolonial independence struggles of 
> the 1950s and ’60s. Moyn credibly juxtaposes the hopes placed in a new 
> internationalist “utopia” of human rights against the failure of national 
> self-determination to guarantee human dignity."
> Of course, such "failures" were in many cases the result of American 
> opposition to self-determination. The notion of "human rights" has been 
> selectively used to attack people we don't like.
> DG
>
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