April 1, 2017

Don’t Ignore Putin’s Trail of Blood

Talk about Russia and Vladimir Putin fills the news in the Euro-Atlantic region. But in considering the problematic aspects of cooperating with the Russian government, too many focus on relatively trivial and ambiguous issues such as Russian operativ...

August 3, 2016

The UN’s Politicized Human Rights Vision

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon does not appear to understand human rights as they were formulated in Classical and Enlightenment philosophy, adhering instead to a political notion of human rights, one originating in Socialism and Progre...

November 3, 2012

Exceptional No More

(Hamburg, Germany) Human rights received only a brief mention -- by Governor Romney -- in the presidential debate on foreign policy, despite having often been claimed a top international priority. But in fact, the Obama administration's hum...

August 19, 2012

Does Universal Human Rights Mean Anything Anymore?

The United Nations' top human rights official has acknowledged that the U.N. human rights system is failing due to bureaucratic overload.  Yet the Office of the High Commissioner is supporting promulgation of a duplicative international treaty t...