dc.contributor.author | SNYDER, Jack | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-04-05T07:37:54Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-04-05T07:37:54Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/76768 | |
dc.description | MWP Lecture delivered at the European University Institute in Florence on 12 April 2023. | en |
dc.description | Jack Snyder (Columbia University) was interviewed by MWP Fellow Miha Marčenko (LAW) and STG Fellow Zselyke Csaky (PLF) on 13 April 2023. | en |
dc.description | Interview link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2S_mn87GT0&list=PLra9SpLONBtLfPTLFev1SMifeRrZkmJ2r&index=5 | en |
dc.description.abstract | Mainstream human rights activists typically attribute the signature successes of their movement—anti-slavery, Gandhi, Martin Luther King—to their uncompromisingly principled stance on behalf of the weak and the exploited. Naming and shaming and ending impunity loom large in their lore. This attitude works well to recruit idealistic activists, but their moralism, legalism, and secular universalism miss the central role of the self-interest of the majority in powering the progress of human rights. A core of idealists defined aspirational goals, but progress depended on support from majority mass movements and reform parties that gained power through expedient compromise. The human rights enterprise is now facing fierce pushback from illiberal strongmen and populists who counter-shame the liberal order as decadent, degenerate, and threatening to deeply rooted values. Too often contemporary rights rhetoric plays into the hands of these illiberal critics. Human Rights for Pragmatists explains how rights-based societies can recover a more accurate narrative of their past pragmatic successes, repair their tactical flaws, and withstand illiberal challenges. | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/video | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | European University Institute | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | MWP | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Video Lecture | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | 2023/04 | en |
dc.relation.uri | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGH0IXOwVwE&list=PLra9SpLONBtK-TwGN1LJJoR6GhS73UYqh&index=5 | en |
dc.title | Human rights for pragmatists : social power in modern times | en |
dc.type | Video | en |