Are Human Rights Mainly Implemented by Intervention?

Rawls's Law of Peoples: A Realistic Utopia?

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 263-277

  Nickel, James W ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Human rights; Imprisonment; Internal autonomy; International justice; Massacre

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EID: 84891309606     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470776612.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

References (29)

1. John Rawls, The Law of Peoples, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.
2. "This monograph... is neither a treatise nor a textbook on international law" (The Law of Peoples, p. 5).
3. Rawls did compare his list to that of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in The Law of Peoples, fn 23, p. 80.
4. John Rawls, Political Liberalism, New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1993 (paperback edition 1996).
5. The Law of Peoples, pp. 9-10.
6. United Nations, 1948.
7. The Law of Peoples, p. 80.
8. These treaties include the Genocide Convention (1948)
9. the European Convention of Human Rights (1950)
10. the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966)
11. the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (1966); the American Convention on Human Rights (1978)
12. the African Charter on Human and People's Rights (1981).
13. A. Bayefsky, The UN Human Rights Treaty System: Universality at the Crossroads, Ardsley, NY: Transnational, 2001.
14. The Law of Peoples, p. 74.
15. The Law of Peoples, p. 79.
16. Rawls distinguishes five different kinds of peoples: (1) "reasonable liberal peoples"; (2) "decent peoples"; (3) "outlaw states"; (4) "societies burdened by unfavorable conditions"; and (5) "benevolent absolutisms" (The Law of Peoples, p. 4).
17. See, for example, H. Steiner and P. Alston, eds., International Human Rights in Context, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 562-648.
18. International Human Rights in Context, pp. 648-704.
19. International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (1966)
20. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women4 (1979)
21. Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989).
22. International Human Rights in Context, pp. 705-88.
23. Ryan Goodman and Derek Jinks, "How to Influence States: Socialization and International Human Rights Law," Duke Law Journal, 54/3 (2004): 621-704.
24. The Law of Peoples, p. 63.
25. M. Walzer, On Tolerance, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999, p. 115. I am indebted to Rex Martin for this reference.
26. The Law of Peoples, p. 29.
27. T. Stein, "The Approach of the Different Drummer: The Principle of the Persistent Objector in International Law," Harvard International Law Journal, 26 (1985). I recognize that some human rights are not subject to the persistent objector rule because they are jus cogens.
28. See John Tasioulas, "In Defence of Relative Normativity: Communitarian Values and the Nicaragua Case," Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 16 (1996): 85-128.
29. This sense of "basic right" is not the same as Henry Shue's. See his Basic Rights, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996.