Human Rights

This semester will focus on Human Rights. What exactly are Human Rights? Should international law have an impact on US behavior? Why is your iPhone not PC? Is globalization good or bad for human rights? What motivates people to engage in evil behavior that violates others' human rights? How can other people just stand by while atrocities, such as genocide, occur? What motivates others to risk their lives to try to save strangers? This course aims to investigate these and provide the necessary historical background to current conflicts. It is designed to make complex historical phenomenon understandable as well as to demonstrate to students the range of options that existed which could have significantly altered the course of the 21st century.