Learn · Letters and Science 140D - Spring 2010
Lecture 8 of 262010-02-111 h 17 min
Lecture 8: Imperialism and Human Rights in War and Peace: The problem of exceptions
Thomas W. LAQUEUR · University of California, Berkeley
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All the lectures
- Lecture 1
- Lecture 2: Why care: the history of the humanitarian narrative
- Lecture 3: Human rights before "human rights" (Guest: Kinch Hoekstra)
- Lecture 4: Human rights in the Age of Revolutions
- Lecture 5: Abolitionism as the first great human rights movement
- Lecture 6: Humanitarianism, cosmopolitanism, and the State in the nineteenth and early twentieth century
- Lecture 7: The rights of War from Grotius to the Hague Conventions
- Lecture 8: Imperialism and Human Rights in War and Peace: The problem of exceptions
- Lecture 9: Genocide before the Holocaust: The case of Armenia (Guest: Michelle Tusan)
- Lecture 10: The Holocaust: was it legal and who was guilty
- Lecture 11: The U.S. South and the Civil Rights Movement (Guest: Mark Brilliant)
- Lecture 12: South Africa and the making of Apartheid (Guest: Gillian Hart)
- Lecture 13: The UN, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Geneva Conventions
- Lecture 15: 1970s: The Helsinki Accords, Helsinki Watch, and Human Rights Watch
- Lecture 16: Dissent Culture in Eastern Europe and the Western Response (Guest: John Connelly)
- Lecture 17: Human Rights in the International Politics of States (Guest: Daniel Sargent)
- Lecture 18: The Rise of the NGO in national and international politics
- Lecture 19: Can it be stopped: Rwanda, Cambodia, Bosnia/Kosovo and the international community
- Lecture 20: Trials for Genocide and the possibility of international human rights law (Guest: David Cohen)
- Lecture 21: Indigenous Rights (Guest: Cory Haydon)
- Lecture 22: Woman's Rights (Guest: Alice Miller - Boalt Law School)
- Lecture 23:
- Lecture 24: Immigrants and guest workers (Guests: Harley Shaiken and Beatriz Manz)
- Lecture 25: The Rights of the Dead
- Lecture 26: The problem of perpetual War and the state of exception
- Lecture 28: Conclusion