Rights-Based Order Under a Multipolar International Regime
It is argued that potential benefits to governing authority from reaching a stable negentropic-equilibrium of contending interests is an essential prerequisite for establishing and sustaining a rights-based order. This is based on an analysis of similar socioeconomic conditions under which individua...
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| Published in: | ICFAI journal of international relations 2023-04, Vol.17 (2), p.25-42 |
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| Language: | eng |
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| Summary: | It is argued that potential benefits to governing authority from reaching a stable negentropic-equilibrium of contending interests is an essential prerequisite for establishing and sustaining a rights-based order. This is based on an analysis of similar socioeconomic conditions under which individual rights were recognized under statebased and alternative legal systems. Through this lens, a pattern is discerned in modern history where technological advances through the three stages of Industrial Revolution changed the nature of production and patterns of global trade relations. The postwar political scenario allowed for recognition of human rights that evolved across three generations. However, after the Cold War, political will was subverted by Big Business' influence that increased in democratic countries around the world through overbearing lobbying. A serpentine symbiotic relation developed between democracies and 'autocracies' around common commercial interests unaffected by seemingly adversarial relations between major powers and their allies. As stability has become a secondary interest, the geopolitical environment has turned increasingly hostile for a rights-based order. |
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| ISSN: | 0973-8509 |