Human Rights: Statist, not Cosmopolitan
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Human rights, global governance institutions, international cooperation, sovereignty, states systemAbstract
Current international law regards human rights as standards relative to the way states treat their own population. This view, which is known as the “state-centric perspective” on human rights, is now resisted by several authors. In this article I defend this view against some critiques recently suggested by Cristina Lafont in Isegoría and other prestigious journals. More concretely, I aim to show that, contrary to Lafont’s claims, the state-centric perspective accurately captures the point and purpose of contemporary human rights and is capable of preserving the interests of human beings from the threatens posed by the new globalized world.
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