International Dialogue
Abstract
In After Evil: A Politics of Human Rights, Robert Meister puts forth an original, subtle, and provocative critique of mainstream human rights discourse in contemporary global politics. He describes this discourse, which he capitalizes as Human Rights Discourse throughout the text, as “… a new discourse of global power that claims to supersede the cruelties perpetrated by both revolutionaries and counterrevolutionaries during the previous two centuries” (3). Meister argues that this discourse creates a false temporal divide between historical periods of “evil” in which gross violations of human rights are committed and post-conflict periods of justice during which parties are presumed to move beyond evil through various mechanisms of transitional justice.
Recommended Citation
DeLaet, Debra L.
(2011)
"After Evil: A Politics of Human Rights - Robert Meister,"
International Dialogue: Vol. 1, Article 12.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32873/uno.dc.ID.1.1.1012
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https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/id-journal/vol1/iss1/12
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