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Research on international norms has yet to answer satisfactorily some of our own most important questions about the origins of norms and the conditions under which some norms win…
The international standing of the United States has taken a serious hit over the past four years. Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s strident “America first” foreign policy is…
The international standing of the United States has taken a serious hit over the past four years. Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s strident “America first” foreign policy is…
Vol. 115, Pages 257-265
Welcome. My name is Kathryn Sikkink. I am the Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and I will be your moderator for this panel on human…
Touching on points from her newly published book, The Hidden Face of Rights: Towards a Politics of Responsibilities, Kathryn Sikkink urges the global community to place…
Kathryn Sikkink maps out a plan to encourage voter turnout among college students.
College students have traditionally voted at one of the lowest rates of any group in the…
When we debate questions in international law, politics, and justice, we often use the language of rights—and far less often the language of responsibilities. Human rights…
Human rights are the result of hard fought political and social struggles in the past and in the current moment. Those who equate human rights discourse or law as the expression…
Breaking the Ban? The Heterogeneous Impact of US Contestation of the Torture Norm recent journal article by Kathryn Sikkink and Averell Schmidt
Following the attacks of 9/11, the…