Cohen v. Cohen: why a human right to…
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COHEN V. COHEN: WHY A HUMAN RIGHT TO (DOMESTIC AND GLOBAL) DEMOCRACY DERIVES FROM THE RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION
[Cohen v. Cohen: por qué el derecho humano a la democracia (local y global) deriva del derecho a la autodeterminación]
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
ABSTRACT
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.
Key words: Joshua Cohen – Self-Determination – Peoples – Democracy – Human Rights – Participation – International Law
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