Topics in IR: International Advocacy

This course addresses the challenges of international advocacy by considering the strategies that the international human rights movement has developed. We examine methods that the human rights movement uses, from shaming abusive governments to conditioning access to various diplomatic & economic benefits. We consider a range of countries, a variety of multilateral institutions that contribute to the defense of human rights (the UN & the International Criminal Court); and a panoply of human rights abuses, from war-time atrocities to authoritarian repression, from issues affecting climate change to economic, social & cultural rights.