Democracy, Human Rights, and International Humanitarian Law

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course addresses issues related to democracy and fundamental freedoms. It deals with contemporary scholarship on democracy, and its variations, cases of transitions to democracy and sources of democratic stability. The relations between democracy and other values such as equality, efficiency, justice, freedom of thought including freedom of worship, freedom of expression, freedom of association and at the same time, the right to security, the protection of individuals and their property, the right of peoples to self-determination, prohibition of the use of force to dominate a nation will be discussed. In addition the course will focus on local and regional armed conflicts and the transition to democracy.