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Rights Stuff

Nicholas Bequelin

A newsletter about the politics of international human rights, from a practitioner's perspective.

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The Age of Defensive Democracy

Friends, I hope you’re keeping well. As the Munich Security Conference takes stock of the state of the world, Foreign Policy has published my latest essay on whether democratic regimes can survive the current era of autocratization.

There...

3 months ago
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Human Rights in World Politics

I am pleased to share a great conversation with the excellent team at on how international human rights grew in the shadow of US hegemony, and what it means going forward. Spoiler alert: it is not your traditional account of how human righ...

a year ago
3

Trump's Foreign Policy Makes Perfect Sense

Friends,

I don’t usually use Rights Stuff to share articles I publish elsewhere, but I am making an exception this time for this Foreign Policy essay published today in an effort to show the coherence between domestic and foreign policies...

a year ago
2

From Setbacks to Strategy: How Human Rights Can Fight Back

“I suggest we analyze and copy the strategy of the enemy; theirs has worked, and ours has not.” There comes a time in one’s professional career as a human rights advocate when Barry Goldwater’s words begin to ring sorely true.

The context,...

a year ago
1

The World Order is What States Make of It

“Any system of world order, to be sustainable, must be accepted as just”. If you find yourself agreeing with this noble statement, you’ll be thrilled to hear that it comes from the late Henry Kissinger, whose personal commitment to “just” o...

2 years ago
1

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    I write the Rights Stuff newsletter while working on a book at the intersection of geopolitics and individual rights at Yale Law School. I worked in Asia for two decades, at Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. No fight, no rights.

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