Politics of Globalization and human rights

CFU: 6

Year: II

Instructor: Lucia Re

Introduction; "politics of globalisation...and human rights"; the HR doctrine: theory, norms and implementation; "globalization": origin of the word and possible interpretations; the liberal standpoint and its critics; the "great globalization debate"; the nation-state and national legal order in the global era; global order, war and HR; HR: an hegemonic project?; the "new rights"; HR and global migrations; HR and gender.

A selected bibliography will be given and presented to students in the first part of the course.