1. Political Science
... view implicit in contemporary international practice, using the right to democratic institutions. More than fifty years have passed since the U.N. General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and in that time the doctrine of human rights has come to play a distinctive and in some respects an unexpected role in international life. Perhaps the most visible is the increasing willingness to regard concern ... about human rights violations as an acceptable justification for various kinds of international intervention, ranging from diplomatic and economic sanctions to m...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate