Feb 8: Issues, Roots, Definitions: What are Human Rights? Who Abuses them and why?

Richard Pierre Claude and Burns H. Weston, Editors, Human Rights in the World Community
Issues and Action(2006), Chapter 1.

Sam Moyn, "On the Genealogy of Morals," The Nation, April 16, 2007.

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Conway W. Henderson, "Conditions Affecting the Use of Political Repression," The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 35, No. 1. (Mar., 1991), pp. 120-142. (BLACKBOARD)

Shannon Lindsey Blanton, "Instruments of Security or Tools of Repression? Arms Imports and Human Rights Conditions in Developing Countries," Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 36, No. 2. (Mar., 1999), pp. 233-244. (BLACKBOARD)

Arne Johan Vetlesen, "Genocide: A Case for the Responsibility of the Bystander," Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 37, No. 4, Special Issue on Ethics of War and Peace. (Jul., 2000), pp. 519-532. (BLACKBOARD)

Helen M. Hintjens, "Explaining the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda," The Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 37, No. 2. (Jun., 1999), pp. 241-286. (BLACKBOARD)