Morgenthau, Hans. “Why Are We In Iraq? Scholars who emphasize interdependence and institutions in their publications also seem to be more likely to work in interdependent ways, while those who tend to emphasize anarchy, insecurity, and competition approach their own scholarly work in more zero-sum terms, wary of entangling alliances. In other words, for realists, either the international human rights regime does not make a difference, so states will not be really bothered about it; or it does make a difference, but only as one more tool at the hands of the strong to impose their hegemonic power over the weak. 1994/95. An Alternative View: Three Ways in Which Human Rights Could Engage with Realism. Also, the Amnesty International, one of the non-governmental organizations, aimed to prevent abuse of human rights and fight for justice for those who have been violated. This chapter appraises Realism from a human rights perspective. […] A defensible realist ethic is perhaps best seen as a warning against the inappropriate application of moral standards to international political action. 2016. Nevertheless, institutions necessarily confine the contestation. International Security 20(1): 82–93. Although this possibility was envisioned by the ICISS, the UN General Assembly made clear in the World Summit Outcome Document that R2P could not bypass the UN Charter. The same is also true of Nye: Although he has written a number of books on his own, he has also collaborated with Keohane and many others over a long, prolific career. In general, realists are strongly sceptical about international law (Morgenthau 1940; Krasner 2002), and about the international proclamation of one ‘moral code’ over potentially conflicting others (Morgenthau 1948). Millennium – Journal of International Studies 21(3): 435–61. 400 B.C.E.) This chapter reflects on recent work on the theory of international law. If however, humans are essentially social individuals, individuals will gain fulfilment through society. One can indeed see international law as part of a certain idea of order in international society. 2005. Realists seek to explain international politics by examining state-to-state relations within an anarchical system of mutual distrust and suspicion, while liberals consider other international actors, as well as actors and institutions within the state, as the underlying … If one defends human rights the liberal perspective today, one is defending a status quo situation of specific types of institutions and more or less defending the highjacking of the theory in the interest of modern power relations. Realism and human rights stem from very different starting points, but they do not necessarily speak untranslatable languages. The debate continues as to which school of International Relations remains the most relevant and timely with regards to the interpretation of the international system. Commitment to individual freedom, reasoned debate and tolerance. support open access publishing. Mearsheimer, John. In the wake of the Fukuyama’s ‘end of history’: liberal theory’s triumph over its soviet/communist other, and the subsequent march of ‘globalisation’ and the ascendancy of neo-liberal ideology, this article interrogates the theoretical developments Define Liberalism. With the Rwandan genocide of 1994 still in mind, a number of observers felt compelled to justify NATO’s intervention in Kosovo in 1999, despite the Security Council’s failure to authorise it due to the Russian veto. For Michael Freeman (2002, 131), for example, ‘realism can explain the neglect of human rights by states, but it can explain neither the introduction nor the increasing influence of human rights in international relations’. On the other hand, some advocates may not feel entirely comfortable with the potential trade-offs of working for material equality, fair taxation and collective bargaining within the confines of international law. The paper makes the liberal argument for intervening by force to end or prevent serious human rights abuses. That said, international law could also be counterproductive for social justice. For legal realists, the proclamation of human rights in international law has very little connection with the actual improvement of human rights around the world, which has more to do with more interdependent trade relations and with the end of the Cold War. Just as liberal institutionalism developed to challenge the dominance of realism in IR from the 1950s onwards, so legal positivism was challenged by the emerging legal process school from the 1940s onwards. Secondly, realism advises restraint in the use of military force, leading potentially to better human rights outcomes. The American Journal of International Law 34(2): 260–84. 2004. This was basically the idea put forward by Hedley Bull and the first generation of the English School of the 1960s and 70s, which Fred Halliday (1992, 438) liked to call ‘English Realism’. Yet, I believe an alternative realist reading of human rights is possible, particularly within the more classical and pre-Waltzian realism (before the 1970s), less constrained by the international structure and more interested in counter-arguing what was seen as reckless idealism. Liberals abandon wars against liberal democracies, but sometimes do not stop the war within illiberal states (Owen 1994: 93). 2005. Studying Human Rights. 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Think of Robert Keohane, who first came to prominence through his joint work with Joseph Nye, but who has subsequently co-authored or co-edited books and articles with a wide array of other scholars. The Twenty Years’ Crisis. You know: kind of the way realists think about international politics. To think otherwise is to make a mistake and it such a mistake that the realist accused the liberalist of making (Baylis et al., 2008: p … Schmitt, Carl. Many thanks! Mearsheimer, John and Walt, Stephen. Donations are voluntary and not required to download the e-book - your link to download is below. “Realist Views of International Law”. For realists, normative values and international regimes do not have power in themselves. Extracting the meaning of human rights from international law is therefore an exercise of ‘hegemonic contestation’, where international actors, including state officials, publicists, international NGOs, etc., ‘routinely challenge each other by invoking legal rules and principles on which they have projected meanings that support their preferences and counteract those of their opponents’ (2004, 199). Morgenthau, Hans. “Morality and Foreign Policy”. The Difference Between Realists and... We tend to think that scholars embrace particular theoretical orientations simply because they conclude that certain theories fit the empirical evidence better than others do. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (American Society of International Law) 96: 265–8. At the very least, Schmitt should be read by human rights defenders to get a grip of the discourse that rapidly spread throughout Western countries after September 2001. Atty. Cox, Robert. The reasons have to do with the Cold War context in which IHRL emerged, but also with the fact that most Northern human rights NGOs only started to work on issues related to ESCR in the 21st century. Is Donald Trump a Realist? They are also weaker: the European Court of Human Rights bests the European Committee of Social Rights in budget, number of cases heard per year, level of compliance by states, and pretty much any other possible variable. His most recent publications are ‘The rights we live in: protecting the right to housing in Spain’ (IJHR, 20:3, 2016) and ‘Dear fellow jurists, human rights are about politics, and that’s perfectly fine’ (chapter in edited volume Can human rights bring social justice?, 2015). Liberalism in a Realist World / 207 International Studies 46, 1&2 (2009): 203–19 The first ‘great debate’ was triggered by the World War I and its aftermath. Can human rights bring social justice? 2008. The narrative above remains the general view about realist thinking on human rights in global politics. Let us not criticise realism for not doing what it never intended to do. Morgenthau, Hans. Realism attempts to explain the satisfaction of predetermined national interests in an anarchic world based on the autonomy of politics and from a consequentialist ethical perspective. Raymond Quiocho Salas, J.D. Amsterdam: Amnesty International Netherlands. One must think critically about the political reasons why certain ideas manage to resonate in international law, while others do not. Review of International Studies 16(4): 285–303. For example, European states were willing to adopt the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights with its Article 2(1), which makes clear that obligations will depend on ‘available resources’ and rights are only to be fulfilled ‘progressively’. Liberalism, on the other hand, emphasizes the idea of being free and equal with regard to certain concepts like religion, trade, political freedom, civil rights, etc. Morgenthau, Hans. First, Realists claim that states’ material capabilities make them the principally legitimate actors in IR as opposed to NGOs’ supposed moral authority on human rights. Realism advises prudence in the use of military force. The Finnish legal scholar Martti Koskenniemi (2005) offers interesting insight on this. Stammers, Neil. Taking functional equality as a given, realists are particularly interested in the balance of power. An E-IR Edited Collection. The proclamation of human rights lacks analytical or explanatory value to account for state action. Human Rights and Foreign Policy. The New York Times, 18 April. Cambridge: Polity. Posner, Eric. The Limits of International Law. International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS). Ignatieff, Michael. All Rights Reserved | Site by Rootsy. This paper is not denying that realists are sceptical of normative values in global politics. Since the 1990s, liberal interventionism has taken hold within a big part of the global human rights community. The second idea concerns what human rights actually are. I also believe realists have a hard time explaining why states agree to the creation of independent human rights bodies they have no control over, as weak as these bodies are. Th e third section follows organically from the nar-rative about the human rights story in international relations. amount, in any currency, is appreciated. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 204–54. Most importantly, he asks whether relations among states towhich power is crucial can also be guided by the norms ofjustice. “The Obama Doctrine”. And with their stress on national interests, balance of power and prudence, realists may march by their side on this. In their view, it is unwise to judge other states’ actions from a moral perspective (Morgenthau 1979; Kennan 1985). For them, states’ relative power vis-à-vis each other does not depend on their role in the system, but on their economic weight and military strength. Halliday, Fred. But if we’re honest, we have to admit that almost all social science theories aren’t especially powerful and that the available evidence for assessing them is often ambiguous or mixed. Goldsmith, Jack, and Posner, Eric. The Nomos of the Earth: In the International Law of the Jus Publicum Europeaum. Each has done important solo work, but their CVs are also full of joint publications and collaborative projects. I am thinking here of scholars such as E.H. Carr, Hans J. Morgenthau, Kenneth Waltz, Robert Gilpin, John Mearsheimer, Stephen Krasner (and myself, for that matter). 2003. Although some of these scholars occasionally wrote with others and were important providers of various collective goods, they generally worked alone. 2013. 2002. Their respective positions and agendas are not intrinsically irreconcilable. 2016. New York: Columbia University Press. 1992. This paper has advocated a measured change for human rights defenders and academics to open up to what realism has to offer. Second, Realism holds that states pursue their interests defined in terms of power as opposed to things like human rights. As noted by Rosenberg (1990, 299), realists grow stronger when criticised on ethical grounds, because such criticism gives realism the opportunity to proclaim its alleged value-free condition. Realism allows for a nuanced view of international law as the product of a pluralist international society. 2005. In short, realists appear to view the academic enterprise as a “self-help” system, where each scholar toils on his or her own and where scholarly standing is mostly the result of individual achievement. The primary focus is on the apparent recent colonisation of international law by a theoretical paradigm which has become popular in the social sciences and in particular in the theory of … bandwidth bills to ensure we keep our existing titles free to view. I contend, first, that realism creates the space for a political critique of international law, which helps us understand the political reasons why certain claims get framed in the language of human rights law. One that favors cooperation, multilateralism, and globalization; and another one that inclines towards nationalism and isolationism, while being skeptical of international institutions. This premise is not shared by one of the most influential legal realists of the 20th century, Carl Schmitt. The dialogue is not only possible with authors long gone, like E. H. Carr, who adopted an ambivalent position about the marriage between ideals and power: ‘The characteristic vice of the utopian is naivety; of the realist, sterility’ (Carr 2001, 12). “We Are Deluding Ourselves in Vietnam”. Realism reminds us that the legal and the political spheres do not match inside out. human rights norms in modern international society. One must beware that from the very moment human rights get institutionalised, they are subject to the constraining effects of international law, where states are still the main gatekeepers. 1995. All content on the website is published under the following Creative Commons License, Copyright © — E-International Relations. He only advocated framing them within a political structure defined mostly by national interests. Our beliefs about how the world works are also shaped by our life experiences, by whom we happened to meet in college or graduate school, by important real-world events, and even by purely instrumental incentives such as the availability of research funding. 1948. 1993. State of Exception. As noted by Donnelly (2008, 157, 159), who is not a realist. Human rights analysts could use some realism to unravel the politics behind the different form of institutionalisation of ESCR and CPR in international law, but also to reconsider the pitfalls of IHRL-based advocacy for social justice. 2002. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. However, individual complaint mechanisms on ESCR are newer and more inexperienced: the UN Committee dealing with ESCR issued its first decision in summer 2015, while the one on CPR examined the first cases in the late 1970s. Walt, Stephen. “An unnecessary war”. States would be reluctant to accuse each other of human rights violations because they could be accused of the same thing in reciprocity, and their sovereignty would be undermined as a result (Krasner 1993, 164). Let me emphasize that I am not suggesting one way of doing scholarship is superior to the other; rather, my question is whether there is a connection between one’s scholarly affinities and one’s personality or Weltanschauung. In Our Own Best Interest: How Defending Human Rights Benefits Us All. And yes: Evidence plays an important role; indeed, it can sometimes force us to rethink even our most fundamental theoretical assumptions. The lessons from Iraq and Libya do however suggest a change in course. Like other classical political theorists, Thucydides(c. 460–c. Freeman, Michael. Liberal interventionists were also behind the idea of the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ (R2P), initially formulated by an independent group of experts gathered in Canada (ICISS 2001), and partly embraced later in the UN World Summit Outcome of 2005 (UN General Assembly 2005, A/RES/60/1, para. London: Palgrave. For example, Morgenthau (1965) was an ardent critic of American intervention in Vietnam, which he saw as ‘delusional’ because both the US and the Soviet Union had comparable strategic interests in South East Asia. 2006. If that is the case, other factors are likely to play a role in determining which theories we believe. States’ human rights obligations are not borne towards each other, but towards their own people, or, even more, towards anybody within their jurisdiction. Feminism has provided some new perspectives to the discourse on human rights over the years. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Ottawa: International Development Research Centre. Mearsheimer, John. Regardless of their personal beliefs and preferences, as academics, realists would only care about the human rights situation in other countries if that situation may result in regional instability or a shift in the balance of power. Regime Theory and International Relations, edited by Volker Rittberger. The 17th century philosopher John Locke is often credited with founding liberalism as a distinct philosophical tradition. Order is not necessarily states’ only goal, but it must outdo justice insofar as its maintenance is the primary goal. The revolutionary strength of these tools is considerably limited, and they are unlikely to energise individuals and communities left out from an unfair distribution of global resources (find an insightful debate on this in the volume edited by Lettinga and van Troost 2015). Hence, international human rights law (IHRL) does not deserve much attention. This paper, however, has shown three ways in which human rights could do better with a pinch of realism. Liberal ideas resulted from the breakdown of feudalism in Europe that were replaced by a market capitalistic society. Any H. Carr wrote his Twenty Years’ Crisis (2001) to warn about what he saw as an excess of wishful thinking among the idealists of the inter-war period. This means that governments should feel legitimised to send their troops to countries where serious human rights abuses are taking place, even without a clear mandate from the Security Council. Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Renée Belfer professor of international relations at Harvard University. Human rights groups have already voiced serious concerns about the plan to move thousands of refugees to an uninhabited island. It relies on twin assumptions of liberal moral and political theory: that the primary purpose of governments is to protect human rights, and that victims of grievous injustice are entitled to outside help. Koskenniemi, Martti. Cambridge Review of International Affairs 17(2): 197–218. States may negotiate, draft and ratify international human rights treaties inasmuch as they do not breach the fundamental tenets of international order, among them the principle of national sovereignty. The next paragraphs will give examples in three areas where human rights analysis and advocacy could benefit from some realist thinking. 1985. Introduction: when thinking about how the world works IR scholars usually subscribe to one of two dominant theories, realism or liberalism. (My joint work with Mearsheimer on the Israel lobby is an exception that does not disprove the rule, as it was not a work of IR theory and working together was essential for withstanding the firestorm of vituperation we knew we would and did receive). Resolution 60/1. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Schmitt’s representation of sovereignty as the power to decide over the confines of the rule and the exception is particularly enlightening to understand the retrogression of human rights during the so-called War on Terror (see Agamben 2005). And Afghanistan?)”. As human rights scholars and practitioners, we should instead focus on engaging with realism if only to get a better sense of the different understandings of the world we intend to change. Lastly, I’m not arguing that scholars who work in the liberal tradition are less ambitious, less driven, or less competitive than their realist counterparts. Considering its prudence in international affairs, realism may prove most valuable in making sure that we exhaust all available resources before going to war. The tragic figure behind the Hungarian populist leader’s efforts to remake his country’s theater. “The Ethics of Realism”. The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics. Some will always say realism is politics as it is while liberalism is an example of … The Twilight of Human Rights Law. With sporadic exceptions (like Schulz 2001 and Mahanty 2013), for most human rights academics and practitioners realism remains anathema and realists are seen as intellectual adversaries. The second section provides an alternative perspective. 2001. The Oxford Handbook of International Relations, edited by Christian Reus-Smit and Duncan Snidal. the Divine Rights of a King. Find out more about E-IR’s range of open access books here. Considering the persistent instability in the country and in the region, President Obama would later regret the American decision in relation to Libya (Goldberg 2016), which pushed him not to intervene against President al-Assad in Syria, even though credible reports confirmed that he had used chemical weapons against defenceless civilians. Not that far from classical realism, in the English School terminology, IHRL can be seen as the product of a political tension between a certain idea of international order, defended by some states, and a certain view of global justice, advocated by independent UN experts, scholars and NGOs. From the United States, both John Mearsheimer (2014) and Stephen Walt (2016) have sustained that abuses committed by American forces abroad pose a serious risk to national security, and that the best strategy to promote democracy and human rights abroad is to do a better job at protecting them at home. Human Rights and Social Movements. And adjacent to realism, we can conceptualise IHRL as the product of a political tension between order and justice in international society. Other goals can be pursued as long as order is not put at risk. Your donations allow us to invest in new open access titles and pay our On the one hand, international law is based on states’ will and has the virtue of concreteness, but when it is too closely related to actual state practice, and fails to create new obligations for states, it becomes ‘apologetic’ of existing power, providing an excuse or a justification for it. 1986. In one word: realism is prudent. I cannot imagine how they could explain the high degree of state compliance with the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. By combining conceptual analysis with an emphasis on procedures and mechanisms of implementation, this volume provides a multidimensional overview of human rights. Likewise, European states endorse the R2P programmatically, provided it is made compatible with the procedures of the UN Charter, and knowing that they would not have to suffer the consequences of a foreign intervention on their soil. How business interests prevent Lebanon from rebuilding its infrastructure, government, and economy. The enemy manages to get into the political sphere but remains outside the legal one. For example, Michael Ignatieff (2003), who had been part of the group of experts that came up with the idea of R2P, publicly defended US and British intervention in Iraq on humanitarian grounds. I. 1999. 2015. Realism is best read as a cautionary ethic of political prudence rooted in a narrow yet insightful vision of international politics. Each of the liberal theorists, like the realists, makes some assumption about the interstate system, human nature and domestic society. “Realists, Too, Can Stand for Human Rights”. 2009. Abstract. On the other hand, international law constitutes an ideal or a plurality of ideals of state behaviour, and it can assert the autonomous normative power of the law; its potential vice, however, is that it risks being ‘unreal’ if it remains too disconnected from actual practice. The underlying idea, Schmitt taught us, is that society’s enemies should not enjoy the rights and benefits society bestowed upon itself. Realism is static, prone to the status quo, suspicious of change. Carr, E. H. 2001. “Why Is American So Bad at Promoting Democracy in Other Countries?”. Liberalism also brings the idea of democratic peace. A Liberal and Realist Perspective of China’s rise By Edmund Balogun. E-IR is an independent non-profit publisher run by an all volunteer team. Human rights are a vital concern of free men and women, espe cially since the emergence of Koskenniemi, Martti. ; (And Liberia? More generally, realists cannot account for the existence of an international regime that imposes non-reciprocal obligations on states. “Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory”. ESCR remain second-class rights in international law, and there are not theoretically compelling reasons to explain it. “The Twilight of International Morality”. His History of the Peloponnesian War is in factneither a work of political philosophy nor a sustained theory ofinternational relations. I can think of a few exceptions to this pattern, but it is striking how few card-carrying realists are prolific collaborators and how few liberal IR scholars are consistent lone wolves. The English School accepted the realist premise of the logic of anarchy, but claimed that an international society can emerge out of that anarchy. When drawing their strategic priorities, social justice advocates may prefer to stand behind a radically leftist candidate than to spend their resources on policy papers about the legal meaning of Article 2(1) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Realist and Liberal Approaches in International Relations ... interpretation of human rights and understanding the principle of equality. ), but they would mean different things in the above-mentioned dialectics for hegemonic contestation between utopia and apology of state action (Koskenniemi 2004 and 2005). This is what Stammers (2009) refers to as the ‘paradox of institutionalisation’, or what Koskenniemi calls the ‘colonisation of political culture by a technocratic language’ (1999, 99). Publications and collaborative projects what most realists would not feel comfortable with sensitive to relative gains feebly to. Said, international law 34 ( 2 ): 435–61 th e third section organically... 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