The Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies presents
Book Launch & Panel: HUMAN RIGHTS FUTURES, Cambridge University Press, 2017
Brief presentations followed by debate and discussion with contributors:
Leslie Vinjamuri,Associate Professor of International Relations, Director of the Centre on Conflict, Rights, and Justice at SOAS, University of London: “Human Rights Backlash.”
Jack Snyder, Belfer Professor of International Relations, Columbia: “Empowering Rights through Mass Movements and Religion.”
Shareen Hertel, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Connecticut, editor of The Journal of Human Rights: “Reframing Economic Rights.”
Alexander Cooley, Claire Tow Professor of Political Science at Barnard College and Director of Columbia’s Harriman Institute: “Dictators without Borders: Counternorms to Human Rights.”
and discussants:
Sarah Mendelson, Former U.S. Ambassador to the Economic and Social Council at the United Nations
Sarah Leah Whitson, Director of the Middle East and North Africa division of Human Rights Watch
Andrew Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia; board member of the National Endowment for Democracy and the Advisory Committee of Human Rights Watch, Asia
