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The Hidden Face of Rights: Toward a Politics of Responsibilities

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In her latest book, The Hidden Face of Rights: Toward a Politics of Responsibilities (Yale University Press), Kathryn Sikkink puts forward a framework of rights and responsibilities; moving beyond the language of rights that has come to dominate...

Kathryn Sikkink elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

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Kathryn Sikkink, the Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, will be inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Political Science (AAPSS) in 2021. Read more here

International Norm Dynamics and Political Change

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Norms have never been absent from the study of international politics, but the sweeping “ideational turn” in the 1980s and 1990s brought them back as a central theoretical concern in the field. Much theorizing about norms has focused on how they create...

The Hidden Face of Rights: towards a politics of responsibilities

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Why we cannot truly implement human rights unless we also recognize human responsibilities

When we debate questions in international law, politics, and justice, we often use the language of rights—and far less often the language of responsibilities. Human...

Taking Stock: The Constructivist Research Program in International Relations and Comparative Politics

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Constructivism is an approach to social analysis that deals with the role of human consciousness in social life. It asserts that human interaction is shaped primarily by ideational factors, not simply material ones; that the most important ideational...