Human rights as a common concern
By: BEITZ, Charles R
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ArticlePublisher: 2001American Political Science Review 95, 2, p. 269-283Abstract: The doctrine of human rights has come to play a distinctive role in internation life. This is primarly the role of a moral thouchtones -a standard of assessment and criticism for domestic institution, as standar of aspritaion for their reform, and increasingly a standar of evaluation for the policies and practices of international economic and political institutions. International practice has followed the controlling documents of international law in taking a broad view of the scope of human rights. Many political theorist argue, however, that this view is excessively broad and that genuine human rights, if they are to be regarded as a truly commom concern of world society , must be construed more narrowly. I argue against that perspective and in favor of the view implicit in contemporary international practice, using the right to democratic institutions as an example
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The doctrine of human rights has come to play a distinctive role in internation life. This is primarly the role of a moral thouchtones -a standard of assessment and criticism for domestic institution, as standar of aspritaion for their reform, and increasingly a standar of evaluation for the policies and practices of international economic and political institutions. International practice has followed the controlling documents of international law in taking a broad view of the scope of human rights. Many political theorist argue, however, that this view is excessively broad and that genuine human rights, if they are to be regarded as a truly commom concern of world society , must be construed more narrowly. I argue against that perspective and in favor of the view implicit in contemporary international practice, using the right to democratic institutions as an example
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