Human rights and the culture wars: globalization and the universality of human rights

From: International Journal | Date: January 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Globalization theory is posing a new challenge to the view that human rights are universal in principle and ought to be so in practice. The challenge comes from some of its analyses of global change which reinforce the view that human rights are an important part of the 'culture wars,' a Western cultural imposition on other parts of the world.

Globalization theory focusses on quantitative and qualitative changes in communications, technology, and the market that are creating a new, closer, global world in the twenty-first century. One aspect of this change is purported to be the ...

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