Taking stock of the impact of economic and financial globalization on the growth of inequality within nations and the connected articulation of a variety of new political demands, this paper reflects on the significance of populist claims from an international law perspective. It identifies three challenges that populism poses to international lawyers and human rights activists. The first challenge concerns the threat to liberal democracy, charged with being unable to protect the interests and rights of the ‘real people’, as opposed to those of the elites. The second is the challenge to economic globalisation itself and the inequalities that it has brought about with all the ensuing consequences from a human rights perspective. The third may be defined as the challenge of ‘national populism’, which targets the international liberal order in the name of a parochial version of national sovereignty. It argues that the complexity of these challenges poses not only practical but also theoretical problems concerning, inter alia, the philosophy of international law and the function of international lawyers in the twenty-first century.
The Challenges of Populism: What Role for International Law Scholars? / Carcano, Andrea. - In: DIRITTI UMANI E DIRITTO INTERNAZIONALE. - ISSN 1971-7105. - 14:1(2020), pp. 5-31. [10.12829/96805]
The Challenges of Populism: What Role for International Law Scholars?
Carcano Andrea
2020
Abstract
Taking stock of the impact of economic and financial globalization on the growth of inequality within nations and the connected articulation of a variety of new political demands, this paper reflects on the significance of populist claims from an international law perspective. It identifies three challenges that populism poses to international lawyers and human rights activists. The first challenge concerns the threat to liberal democracy, charged with being unable to protect the interests and rights of the ‘real people’, as opposed to those of the elites. The second is the challenge to economic globalisation itself and the inequalities that it has brought about with all the ensuing consequences from a human rights perspective. The third may be defined as the challenge of ‘national populism’, which targets the international liberal order in the name of a parochial version of national sovereignty. It argues that the complexity of these challenges poses not only practical but also theoretical problems concerning, inter alia, the philosophy of international law and the function of international lawyers in the twenty-first century.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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