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History of Human Rights in International Relations (Distance Study) - YMN091

Title:	History of Human Rights in International Relations (Distance Study)
Guaranteed by:	Programme Civil Society Studies (24-KSOS)
Faculty:	Faculty of Humanities
Actual:	from 2013
Semester:	both
E-Credits:	3
Examination process:
Hours per week, examination:	0/8, C [HS]
Capacity:	winter:unknown / unknown (20) summer:unknown / unknown (20)
Min. number of students:	unlimited
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
Key competences:
State of the course:	cancelled
Language:	English
Teaching methods:	combined
Level:
Note:	course can be enrolled in outside the study plan enabled for web enrollment you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester

Guarantor:	Mgr. Selma Muhič Dizdarevič, Ph.D.
Interchangeability :	YMN058, YMN080, YMN092, YMN093
Is interchangeable with:	YMN092, YMN080, YMN00HHR, YMN164, YMN0HHR, YMN093

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Annotation -

History of Human Rights in International Relations The goal of the course is to introduce students to the following topics: current definitions of human rights, controversy over different generations of human rights, history of human rights from ancient Greece up to contemporary philosophical and political science definitions, differences between natural and human rights, disputes with moral relativism, moral vs. legal rights, claim rights and liberty rights, scope and justification of human rights, HR as the dominant geopolitical doctrine of modern times, HR in international law and HR within the UN. Special attention will be paid to theories of international relations and place of the HR agenda in it. Students will be encouraged to discuss current HR issues and illustrate the theories with political events. The creation of this course was funded by the Operational Programme Prague - Adaptability, cofinanced by the European Social Fund.

Last update: Pašková Petra, Mgr. (07.09.2011)

Syllabus -

This course will not open in the summer semester. This course will be fully replaced by the rate of the History of Human Rights YMN093

Tento kurz nebude v letním semestru otevřen, plně jej nahradí kurz s kódem YMN093

1st meeting:

The concept of human rights

The universal declaration model

Cultural relativism as opposition to HR concept, market relativism and implementation of HR

Non-Western concepts of HR

International HR regimes

HR and foreign policy

2nd meeting:

Group rights and HR

Development and HR

Institutions of HR protection

Future of HR?

Preparation for the written test.

The requirement for the course is taking a written test and attendece of both dates scheduled for lectures.

Donnelly, Jack. 2003. Universal Human Rights. New York: Cornell University Press. Available from the e-library in Moodle.

Etzioni, Amitai. The Normativity of Human Rights is Sel-Evident. In Human Rights Quarterly. Available at: http://www.gwu.edu/~ccps/etzioni/documents/The%20Normativity%20of%20Human%20Rights%20Is%20Self%20Evident.pdf

Last update: FEJFAPET (10.02.2012)