Micheline R Ishay
Biographic Data
| ID | 4448936 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Micheline R Ishay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Micheline R |
| FAMILY NAME | Ishay |
| SIGNATURE | ISHAY M R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Denver |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8524-3682 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Human Rights Reader: Major Political Essays, Speeches, and Documents from Ancient Times to the Present
Human rights amidst despair in the Levant and the West
In 2019, protests in the streets of Algeria and Sudan, Lebanon and Iraq brought back the fragrance of the Jasmine revolution. Can the pendulum swing back towards democracy and human rights in the Middle East and North Africa region – and in Europe? What will it take to endure? I argue three points. First, I maintain that the human rights aspirations of the Arab Spring rippled across the West in 2011 as disenfranchised groups reacted to increasing…
Micheline Ishay Comments
The Levant Express: The Arab Uprisings, Human Rights, and the Future of the Middle East
A surprisingly hopeful assessment of the prospects for human rights in the Middle East, and a blueprint for advancing them The enormous sense of optimism unleashed by the Arab Spring in 2011 soon gave way to widespread suffering and despair. Of the many popular uprisings against autocratic regimes, Tunisia's now stands alone as a beacon of hope for sustainable human rights progress. Libya is a failed state; Egypt returned to military dictatorship…
Human Rights Under Attack: What Comes Next
Samuel Moyn argues that the human rights movement, which thrived in the 1970s and peaked after the Cold War, became dominated by a misplaced focus on sufficiency rather than equality, ultimately abetting neoliberalism. He deplores the rise and fall of an egalitarian and redistributive worldview, from the Jacobin era to the slow decline of socialism in the twentieth century, culminating in ineffectual and unambitious human rights endeavors. Here M…
Violent Islamism beyond borders: Can human rights prevail
The argument that sectarian conflicts in the Arab Middle East have been persistent since time immemorial is erroneous. While these views may seem compelling with the rise of ISIL, they are in fact very dangerous: they downgrade Islamic societies to primordial, selective and static features. I will argue for a different set of propositions. First, violence is not unique to Islamic societies. Extreme illiberal ideologies prevailed in Christian Euro…
The spring of Arab nations? Paths toward democratic transition
This article defends three basic premises. First, the same conditions and forces favorable to revolution may serve to impede efforts at post-revolutionary consolidation. Second, one can assess prospects for consolidation based on the capacity of prospective hegemonic parties to achieve several interrelated objectives: developing a shared worldview among disparate segments of the population, delivering social and economic goods, and establishing o…
The Socialist Contributions to Human Rights: An Overlooked Legacy
The nineteenth century industrial revolution and the growth of the labour movement opened the gates to previously marginalised individuals, who challenged the classical liberal economic conception of social justice. Yet, despite the important socialist contribution to the human rights discourse, the human rights legacy of the socialist – and especially the Marxist – tradition is today widely overlooked or dismissed. Bearing in mind the atrocities…
The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to Globalization
THE HISTORY OF HUMAN RIGHTS From Ancient Times to Globalization Micheline R. Ishay Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. x, 45opp, US$6o.oo cloth (ISBN 0-520-23496-0), US$24-95 paper (ISBN 0-520-23497-9)In this comprehensive and sweeping history of human rights, Micheline R. Ishay embeds the developments in thinking about human rights over thousands of years in a review of the historical successes its proponents have had in realizing th…
What are human rights? Six historical controversies
(2004). What are human rights? Six historical controversies. Journal of Human Rights: Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 359-371
Promoting human rights in the era of globalization and interventions: The changing spaces of struggle
A new cartography of geopolitical and corporate interests is reshaping the international order after September 11, calling into question the state’s ability to secure fundamental rights for its citizens and to preserve participatory democracy. If civil society tends, among human rights activists, to be the preferred venue to articulate human rights concerns against the state and other powerful entities, one may wonder whether civil society has no…
Human rights and national security: A false dichotomy 1
(1996). Human rights and national security: A false dichotomy. New Political Science: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 121-146
The historical lessons of human rights: In search of a new approach
(1996). The historical lessons of human rights: In search of a new approach. The European Legacy: Vol. 1, Fourth International Conference of the International Society for the study of European Ideas, pp. 498-503
European integration: The enlightenment legacy
What are human rights? Six historical controversies
(2004). What are human rights? Six historical controversies. Journal of Human Rights: Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 359-371
The Socialist Contributions to Human Rights: An Overlooked Legacy
The nineteenth century industrial revolution and the growth of the labour movement opened the gates to previously marginalised individuals, who challenged the classical liberal economic conception of social justice. Yet, despite the important socialist contribution to the human rights discourse, the human rights legacy of the socialist – and especially the Marxist – tradition is today widely overlooked or dismissed. Bearing in mind the atrocities…
Human rights and national security: A false dichotomy 1
(1996). Human rights and national security: A false dichotomy. New Political Science: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 121-146
European integration: The enlightenment legacy
Human rights and national security: A false dichotomy 1
(1996). Human rights and national security: A false dichotomy. New Political Science: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 121-146
The historical lessons of human rights: In search of a new approach
(1996). The historical lessons of human rights: In search of a new approach. The European Legacy: Vol. 1, Fourth International Conference of the International Society for the study of European Ideas, pp. 498-503
What are human rights? Six historical controversies
(2004). What are human rights? Six historical controversies. Journal of Human Rights: Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 359-371
Promoting human rights in the era of globalization and interventions: The changing spaces of struggle
A new cartography of geopolitical and corporate interests is reshaping the international order after September 11, calling into question the state’s ability to secure fundamental rights for its citizens and to preserve participatory democracy. If civil society tends, among human rights activists, to be the preferred venue to articulate human rights concerns against the state and other powerful entities, one may wonder whether civil society has no…
The Socialist Contributions to Human Rights: An Overlooked Legacy
The nineteenth century industrial revolution and the growth of the labour movement opened the gates to previously marginalised individuals, who challenged the classical liberal economic conception of social justice. Yet, despite the important socialist contribution to the human rights discourse, the human rights legacy of the socialist – and especially the Marxist – tradition is today widely overlooked or dismissed. Bearing in mind the atrocities…
The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to Globalization
THE HISTORY OF HUMAN RIGHTS From Ancient Times to Globalization Micheline R. Ishay Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. x, 45opp, US$6o.oo cloth (ISBN 0-520-23496-0), US$24-95 paper (ISBN 0-520-23497-9)In this comprehensive and sweeping history of human rights, Micheline R. Ishay embeds the developments in thinking about human rights over thousands of years in a review of the historical successes its proponents have had in realizing th…
The spring of Arab nations? Paths toward democratic transition
This article defends three basic premises. First, the same conditions and forces favorable to revolution may serve to impede efforts at post-revolutionary consolidation. Second, one can assess prospects for consolidation based on the capacity of prospective hegemonic parties to achieve several interrelated objectives: developing a shared worldview among disparate segments of the population, delivering social and economic goods, and establishing o…
Violent Islamism beyond borders: Can human rights prevail
The argument that sectarian conflicts in the Arab Middle East have been persistent since time immemorial is erroneous. While these views may seem compelling with the rise of ISIL, they are in fact very dangerous: they downgrade Islamic societies to primordial, selective and static features. I will argue for a different set of propositions. First, violence is not unique to Islamic societies. Extreme illiberal ideologies prevailed in Christian Euro…
Human Rights Under Attack: What Comes Next
Samuel Moyn argues that the human rights movement, which thrived in the 1970s and peaked after the Cold War, became dominated by a misplaced focus on sufficiency rather than equality, ultimately abetting neoliberalism. He deplores the rise and fall of an egalitarian and redistributive worldview, from the Jacobin era to the slow decline of socialism in the twentieth century, culminating in ineffectual and unambitious human rights endeavors. Here M…
The Levant Express: The Arab Uprisings, Human Rights, and the Future of the Middle East
A surprisingly hopeful assessment of the prospects for human rights in the Middle East, and a blueprint for advancing them The enormous sense of optimism unleashed by the Arab Spring in 2011 soon gave way to widespread suffering and despair. Of the many popular uprisings against autocratic regimes, Tunisia's now stands alone as a beacon of hope for sustainable human rights progress. Libya is a failed state; Egypt returned to military dictatorship…
Human rights amidst despair in the Levant and the West
In 2019, protests in the streets of Algeria and Sudan, Lebanon and Iraq brought back the fragrance of the Jasmine revolution. Can the pendulum swing back towards democracy and human rights in the Middle East and North Africa region – and in Europe? What will it take to endure? I argue three points. First, I maintain that the human rights aspirations of the Arab Spring rippled across the West in 2011 as disenfranchised groups reacted to increasing…
Micheline Ishay Comments
Human Rights Reader: Major Political Essays, Speeches, and Documents from Ancient Times to the Present
Political science (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Human rights (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (7 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · International Law and Human Rights (5 works) · Democracy (4 works)