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Dr. David Cingranelli is Professor of Political Science, State University of New York, Binghamton whose research focuses on the human rights practices of governments from a cross-national comparative perspective. He conducts research on the measurement of human rights practices, the effect of the end of the cold war on government respect for human rights, the relationships among different types of human rights, the dissent/repression linkage, and the relationship between the human rights practices of the governments of developing countries and the amounts and types of foreign aid they receive. He has written Ethics and American Foreign Policy toward the Third World and edited Human Rights and Developing Countries .
Cingranelli is particularly interested in workers' rights. Some believe that workers' rights are declining as a result of expansion of the capitalist system after the end of the cold war. He is currently conducting a study of how globalization of the world capitalist economy and democratization is affecting workers' rights around the world.
In addition, Cingranelli maintains a longstanding research program focused on American public policies. He is collecting data for a book-length manuscript on the subject of workers' rights in America. This research project is designed to examine the development of U.S. policies towards workers using a variety of general theories that have been developed to explain variations in public policy over time and across space. |
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Human Rights & World Politics
Wednesday-Sunday October 25-29, 2006
East Central University Campus, Ada
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In the last four decades we have seen a substantial increase in interest in human rights and discussion of human rights related issues in the international arena. We have witnessed a proliferation of treaties, as well as the foundation of international institutions designed to enforce the human rights standards established in international law. The term “human rights” appears more and more frequently in popular newspapers, magazines, and opinion journals. When asked in opinion surveys, many people in the United States and other countries around the world profess some concern with human rights issues. Their leaders increasingly address human rights concerns when making foreign policy. Yet few people are really well informed on human rights issues.
What are the principles of “human rights” and where do they come from? What is the force of international human rights agreements? What is American policy about human rights? And how does “globalization” affect national human rights practices? These are some of the questions we will address in this seminar.
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The Class Reading List: (These books and articles supplied
by OSLEP)
- The Graves are not yet full. Bill Berkeley.2001. .
- The Umbrella of U.S. Power: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Contradictions of U.S. Policy. Noam Chomsky. 1999.
- Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice. (Second Edition) Jack Donnelly. 2003.
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