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Trump’s New, Undemocratic, Denaturalization Policy
- Analysis
- February 27, 2020
This week, the US Justice Department announced the creation of a “Denaturalization Section”, which will focus on stripping US citizenship status of those it believes had acquired it fraudulently. However, this choice contributes to the undermining of the post-World War 2 consensus that the right to citizenship is a basic human right. The press release
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Human Rights “Inflation”— What’s the Problem?
Instead of talking about “rights inflation”, we should understand what we are witnessing are new interpretations that respond to new struggles for human dignity. It is increasingly common to hear the complaint that there are too many international human rights. Those complaining raise three sorts of allegations: that new rights are being created willy-nilly, a sort
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Constructing the Liberal Enemy: The International Political Sociology of the New Right
- Analysis
- February 20, 2020
A recent cover of L’Express depicts Marine Le Pen at the president’s desk in a glittering Élysée Palace. The unthinkable has become thinkable: Opinion polls put the leader of the Rassemblement National narrowly ahead of President Macron in an assumed first round of the 2022 election. In neighbouring Germany, surveys show that nearly 50 percent
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The Coronavirus Crisis: The De Facto Quarantine of Taiwan
- Analysis
- February 13, 2020
The risk of a global pandemic coming from China is attracting a lot of attention, but it is important to avoidgiving way to hysteria. Canada and the international community should standfirm in support of Taiwanese rights to participate in the WHO’s crisisresponse. Images of panicked citizens, of overwhelmedphysicians facing a nervous breakdown in the city
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