Review – Debating Human Rights
Chong addresses the complexities of universal human rights and presents contemporary debates that are excellent springboard into the much contested rights discourse.
The Politics of the Humanitarian Crisis in Europe
In the face of the horrors and the tragic loss of life, allowing or even encouraging the spread of chaos by yielding to blackmail is always the wrong policy.
Iran’s Execution Spike under Rouhani: Who Is Pulling the Chairs?
The closer we get to the deadline for a final nuclear deal, its most fervent opponents will frantically flail their arms in a last ditch attempt to stay relevant.
Shall Not Perish: Remembering the Indian Ocean Tsunami
Ten years ago, the Indian Ocean Tsunami was triggered by one of the largest-ever earthquakes. But it was not just nature that broke records. So did the disaster response.
Is there a Cabin in the Woods? Reflections on Mass Surveillance and Human Rights
Contemporary impulses to surveil and Moves to securitize nearly all forms of mobility and otherness are opposed to notions of hospitality, acceptance and understanding.
Modelling the United Nations in Bristol
Students from UWE Bristol, the University of Bristol, and Sciences Po simulated whether sovereignty should be conditional in the face of severe human rights violations.
In Celebration of Senseless Acts of Kindness
There are many blogs on humanitarianism & development. They tend to be overly-technical, narrowly prescriptive, and circulate within the international aid industry. The Flesh and Blood blog will offer something different.
Tracing the Threads: Queer IR and Human Rights
Human rights and queer theory compel us to view matters in a different light. It is this potential to cut across established ideas that makes sense of the challenge to develop a queer account of human rights.
Eight Substrates for a Possible Universal Axiology
An agenda that reinforces and demonstrates the history of cultural cross-pollination is key to framing today’s era of continued globalisation in positive terms.
Interview – Steven Pinker
Professor Pinker answers questions on mankind’s tendency toward violence, Darwinism, the rights of women in Islamic societies, and his new book – The Sense of Style.
