Cohen v. Cohen

why a human right to (domestic and global) democracy derives from the right to self-determination

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  • Nahuel Maisley

Palabras clave:

Joshua Cohen, self-determination, peoples, democracy, human rights, participation, international law

Resumen

In this paper, I challenge Joshua Cohen’s denial of the existence of a human right to democracy, using for that purpose arguments presented by Cohen himself in other occasions. In a first section, I explain five contradictions in which I believe Cohen incurs with respect to his previous works. In a second section, I explain two conclusions that I believe can be derived from this development: first, that the right of peoples to self-determination does not impede the existence of a human right to democracy (on the contrary, self-determination is impossible without democracy), and second, that this reasoning is not only applicable to the domestic order, but also to global decision-making.

Biografía del autor/a

Nahuel Maisley

CONICET, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Grupo de Filosofía Política
nahuel.maisley@gmail.com
Secretaria de Investigación, Av. Figueroa Alcorta 2263 (C1425CKB), CABA, Argentina

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2015-10-10

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