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This course is aimed at exploring the relationship between politics, democracy and human rights, explore the foundations and the legitimacy of international law, and investigate the norms, institutions, applications of – and challenges to – human rights. The course will also address the role of civil society and non-state actors, the question as to whether or not collectivities can have rights, the trade-off between security and liberty, the relationship between democracy and economic development, the protection of minority rights, and the international responses to political violence. Ultimately, the aim of this course is to investigate how the moral, judicial, social and economic dimensions of human rights interact with their essential political dimension in contemporary world of politics