International Human Rights: Latin American Delegations and Social Rights

Seminar Questions:

Core Reading:

• Engstrom, Par. 2016. "The Inter-American Human Rights System and U.S.-Latin American Relations." InCooperation and Hegemony in US-Latin American Relations: Revisiting the Western Hemisphere Idea, eds., Juan Pablo Scarfi and Andrew Tillman, 209-247. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

• Thornton, Christy. 2022. “Establishing the Limits of the Liberal International Order: Latin America and the Demand for Development.”Cambridge Review of International Affairs 35 (5): 680–97.

Further Reading:

• Par Engstrom (ed.) The Inter-American Human Rights System: Impact Beyond Compliance
• Juan Pablo Scarfi and Andrew Tillman (eds.) Cooperation and Hegemony in US-Latin American Relations: Revisiting the Western Hemisphere Idea. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Cabranes, José A. 1967. "Human Rights and Non-Intervention in the Inter-American System." Michigan Law Review 65(6): 1147-1182.
• Cooper, Andrew F. and Thomas Legler. Intervention without Intervening?: The OAS Defense and Promotion of Democracy in the Americas. Springer, 2006.
• Cabranes, José A. 1967. "Human Rights and Non-Intervention in the Inter-American System." Michigan Law Review 65(6): 1147-1182.
• Cooper, Andrew F. and Thomas Legler. 2001. "The OAS Democratic Solidarity Paradigm: Questions of Collective and National Leadership." Latin American Politics and Society 43(1): 103-26
• Scarfi, Juan Pablo. 2017. The Hidden History of International Law in the Americas: Empire and Legal Networks. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Greg Grandin, 'Human Rights and Empire's Embrace: A Latin American Counterpoint' in Wasserstrom et al (eds.), Human Rights and Revolutions (Lantham, 2007), 191-212.
• Mark Mazower, No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations (Princeton: 2009).
• Philip Alston and Gerard Quinn, 'The Nature and Scope of States Parties' Obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights', Human Rights Quarterly 9: 2 (1987), 156-229.
• Winter, Jay, '1948: Human Rights' in Dreams of Peace and Freedom in the Twentieth Century (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008)