2015/16 IPS-Nathan Lectures: Lecture IV (The Myth of Universality: The Geopolitics of Human Rights)

The series of 2015/16 IPS-Nathan Lectures is titled “Dealing with an Ambiguous World”.
The fourth lecture will expose some of the conceptual complexities and complications of the ideas of human rights and democracy and examine their evolving role in international relations. Simplistic views of the concepts and their imprudent application have added to post-Cold War uncertainties.


Downloads

• Report on Lecture IV – The Myth of Universality: The Geopolitics of Human Rights
• Speech by Mr Bilahari Kausikan
• 2015/16 IPS-Nathan Lecture Series: Lecture IV by Mr Bilahari Kausikan (Soundcloud)

Video

Media Coverage

• The Straits Times. 2016. No clear-cut, single definition of human rights: Bilahari Kausikan. 30 April