History of Human Rights in International Relations - YMN080
Title: History of Human Rights in International Relations
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: 0/2, C [HT]
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: full-time
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, YMN091, YMN092, YMN093
Is interchangeable with: YMN091, YMN092, YMN00HHR, YMN164, YMN0HHR, YMN093
Examination dates   Schedule   Noticeboard   
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: FEJFAPET (31.01.2012)
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 YMN092

Tento kurz nebude v letním semestru otevřen, plně jej nahradí kurz s kódem YMN092 

1.      week:  The concept of human rights

2.      week: The universal declaration model

3.      week: Cultural relativism as opposition to HR concept, market relativism and implementation of HR

4.      week: Non-Western concepts of HR

5.      week: International HR regimes

6.      week: HR and foreign policy

7.      week: Group rights and HR

8.      week: Development and HR

9.      week: Institutions of HR protection

10.   week: Institutions of HR protection

11.   week: Future of HR?

12.   week:  Preparation for the written test.

Requirement for the course is taking a written test and 80% attendence.

Required reading:

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 (31.01.2012)