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).