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Beyond the Neoliberal Agenda? Human Rights Activism and Muslim Cosmopolitans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

David M. Mednicoff*
Affiliation:
University of Massachusetts, Amherst. B.A., Princeton University; , Harvard University

Abstract

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Culture
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1999

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References

1 David Mednicoff, “Act Globally, Think Locally? The Adaptation of Human Rights Norms to Social Mobilization in Two Arab Nations,” paper under review for publication.

2 The most elaborate general study of this issue remains Waltz, Susan E., Human Rights and Reform: Changing the Face of North African Politics, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.Google Scholar

3 Although I agree with Hani Sayed’s following remarks about problems defining “cosmopolitan,” I use the term for the purposes of this short article to mean actors committed to a vision of transcultural and transnational dialogue towards the end of refining and implementing ideas of a more genuinely fair and equal global society, rather than rationalizing the hegemony of a particular society’s economic or political values.

4 See, for example, Perry’s article “Is the Idea of Human Rights Ineliminably Religious?,” at 205-262, and, especially, 252 Legal Rights: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives, (Austin Sarat and Thomas Kearns, eds., 1996).