Jack Donnelly
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 303.871.2563
Website: http://mysite.du.edu/~jdonnell/
Address: 304A Ben M. Cherrington Hall
Josef Korbel School of International Studies
University of Denver
2201 South Gaylord Street
Denver, CO 80208 USA
Education
University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D., 1982.
Georgetown University, B.S.F.S., 1973, M.A., 1975.
Teaching Experience
Andrew W. Mellon Professor, Graduate School of International Studies,
University of Denver, 1992- .
Associate Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 19871992. (Assistant Professor, 1984-87.)
Assistant Professor, College of the Holy Cross, 1981-1984.
Visiting Instructor, Tulane University, 1980-1981.
Instructor, Mills College, 1979-1980.
Visiting Professor:
University of Connecticut, 2002.
Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, 1996.
National University, Heredia, Costa Rica, 1994.
University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay, 1990.
Publications
Books
2006.� International Human Rights (Third Edition).� Boulder, CO:�
Westview Press.
2003. Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice (Second Edition).
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.� (Indian edition, 2006.� Chinese
translation, 2007)
2000. Realism and International Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press. (Chinese translation, 2002. Korean translation, 2004.)
1998. International Human Rights (Second Edition). Boulder, CO:
Westview Press. (Serbo-Croatian translation, 1999. Korean translation,
2004.)
1993. International Human Rights. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
1989. Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice. Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University Press. (Spanish translation, 1994. Turkish translation, 1995.
Chinese translation, 1998. Arabic translation, 2002.)
1987. International Handbook of Human Rights. Westport, CT: Greenwood
Press (co-editor with Rhoda E. Howard).
1985. The Concept of Human Rights. London: Croom Helm, New York: St.
Martin's Press.
Articles and Book Chapters
2008a.� �Human Rights:� Both Universal and Relative (A Reply to
Michael Goodhart),� Human Rights Quarterly 30 (February): 194-204.
2008b.� �Human Rights and Social Provision,� Journal of Human
Rights 7 (June): 123-138.
2007a.� �The Relative Universality of Human Rights,� Human Rights
Quarterly 29 (May): 281-306.
2007b.� �The West, Economic and Social Rights, and the Global
Human Rights Regime:� Setting the Record Straight,� Human Rights
Quarterly 29 (November): 908-949 (co-author with Daniel Whelan).
2007c.� �The West and Economic Rights.�� In Shareen Hertel and
Lanse Minkler, eds., Economic Rights: Conceptual, Measurement, and Policy
Issues.� Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2007d.� �La soberan�a de los Estados y los derechos humanos.��
In Ana Covarrubias Velasco and Daniel Ortega Nieto, eds., La
protecci�n internacional de los derechos humanos:� un reto en el siglo xxi.�
Mexcio, D.F.:� El Colegio de M�xico, Centro de Estudios
Internacionales.
2006a.� �Sovereign Inequalities and Hierarchy in Anarchy:�
American Power and International Society,� European Journal of
International Relations 12 (June): 139-170.
2006b.� �Human Rights.�� In John Dryzek, Bonnie Honig, and
Anne Phillips, eds., Oxford Handbook of Political Theory, Oxford:� Oxford
University Press.
2006c.� �Is There a Right to Peace?�� In Julie Mertus and Jeffrey
W. Helsing, eds., Human Rights and Conflict.� United States Institute of
Peace Press, 2006.
2005a.� �Realism.�� In Scott Burchill and Andrew Linklater, eds.,
Theories of International Relations, 3rd edition, Houndsmill, Basingstoke:�
Palgrave.
2005b.� �The Virtues of Legalization.�� In Basak Cali and Saladin
Meckled-Garcia, eds., Legalization and Human Rights, London:�
Routledge.
2004a. �International Human Rights: Unintended Consequences of
the War on Terrorism.� In Thomas G. Weiss, Margaret E. Crahan, and
John Goering (eds.), Wars on Terrorism and Iraq: Human Rights,
Unilateralism and U.S. Foreign Policy, New York: Routledge.
2004b. �Introduction.� In Debra Liang-Fenton (ed.), Implementing
U.S. Human Rights Policy, Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of
Peace. (co-author with Debra Liang-Fenton).
2003a. �The Universal Declaration Model: A Liberal Defense.� In
Gene M. Lyons and James Mayall (eds.), International Human Rights in the
21st Century: Protecting the Rights of Groups, Lanham: Rowman and
Littlefield.
2003b. �The West.� In Edward A. Kolodziej (ed.), A Force
Profonde: The Power, Promise, and Politics of Human Rights,
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
2002a. �Genocide and Humanitarian Intervention,� Journal of Human
Rights 1 (March): 93-109.
2002b. �Beyond Realism and Its Critics: New Realist Research and the
Possibilities for Constructive Engagement.� In Stephanie Lawson
(ed.), The New Agenda for International Relations, Malden:� Polity Press.
2001a. �Ethics and International Human Rights.� In Danny Warner
and Jean-Marc Coicaud, Ethics and International Affairs: Extent and
Limits. Tokyo: United Nations University Press.
2000a. �Conclusion: An Overview.� In David P. Forsythe, Human
Rights and Comparative Foreign Policy. Tokyo: United Nations University
Press.
2000b. �Human Rights, Democracy, and U.S. Foreign Policy.� In
David P. Forsythe, The United States and Human Rights: Looking Inward and
Outward. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
2000c. �Para Alem do Realismo e de seus Criticos: Novas Pesquisas
Realistas e as Possibilidades para um Engajamento Constructivo,�
Contexto Internacional 22 (Janeiro/Junho): 137-190.
2000d. �Human Rights, Security, and the Dilemmas of
Intervention: Reflections after Kosovo.� In Tai-joon Kwon and
Dong-Sung Kim, World Order and Peace in the New
Millennium. Seoul: Korean National Commission for UNESCO.
1999a. �The Social Construction of International Human Rights.� In
Tim Dunne and Nicholas J. Wheeler, Human Rights in Global Politics.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1999b. �Human Rights and Asian Values: A Defense of 'Western'
Universalism.� In Joanne R. Bauer and Daniel A. Bell, The East Asian
Challenge for Human Rights. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1999c. �Human Rights, Globalization, and the State.� In Monique
Castermans-Holleman, G. J. van Hoof, and Jacqueline Smith, The Role of
the Nation-State in the 21st Century: Human Rights, International Organizations
and Foreign Policy. Essays in Honour of Peter Baehr. Cambridge: Kluwer Law
International.
1999d. �Human Rights, Democracy, and Development,� Human
Rights Quarterly, 21 (August): 608-632.
1999e. �Non-Discrimination and Sexual Orientation: Making a Place
for Sexual Minorities in the Global Human Rights Regime.� In Peter
Baehr, Cees Flinterman, and Mignon Senders, Innovation and
Inspiration: Fifty Years of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights. Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and
Sciences. (Also available on my Web Page
http://www.du.edu/~jdonnell/papers.htm.)
1998a. �Human Rights: A New Standard of Civilization?� International
Affairs 74 (January): 1-24
1998b. �Unfinished Business,� PS: Political Science and Politics, 31
(September): 530-536.
1998c. �Realism: Roots and Renewal,� (review essay) Review of
International Studies 24:399-405.
1997a. �Human Rights.� Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations. Oxford
University Press, 1997.
1997b. �Conversing with Straw Men While Ignoring Dictators: A Reply
to Roger Ames,� Ethics and International Affairs 11: 207-214.
1997c. �Human Rights Issues and International Governance.� In JinYoung Chung, Global Governance: The Role of International Institutions in a
Changing World. Sungnam, Korea: The Sejong Institute.
1996a. �Rethinking Human Rights,� Current History 95 (November):
387-391.
1996b. �Human Rights and Asian Values,� Sasang (Fall): 28-45 (in
Korean).
1995a. �State Sovereignty and International Intervention: The Case of
Human Rights.� In Gene M. Lyons and Michael Mastanduno, Beyond
Westphalia?: State Sovereignty and International Intervention. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press.
1995b. �Realism and the Academic Study of International Relations.�
In James Farr, John S. Dryzek and Stephen T. Leonard, Political Science in
History: Research Programs and Political Traditions. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
1995c. �The Past, the Present, and the Future Prospects.� In Milton J.
Esman and Shibley Telhami, International Organizations and Ethnic Conflict.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
1994a. �Post-Cold War Reflections on International Human Rights,�
Ethics and International Affairs 8: 97-118.
1994b. �Human Rights and International Organizations: States,
Sovereignty, and the International Community.� In Friedrich
Kratochwil and Edward D. Mansfield, International Organization: A Reader.
New York: Harper Collins
1994c. �Human Rights.� In Michael T. Klare, Peace and World Security
Studies: A Curriculum Guide. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.
1994d. �Human Rights in a New World Order: Implications for a New
Europe.� In David P. Forsythe, Human Rights in the New Europe: Problems
and Progress. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
1994e. �International Human Rights and Health Care Reform.� In
Audrey R. Chapman (ed.), Health Care Reform: A Human Rights Approach.
Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
1993a. �Human Rights, Humanitarian Crisis, and Humanitarian
Intervention,� International Journal 48 (Autumn): 607-640.
1993b. �Third Generation Rights.� In C. Brolmann et al., Peoples and
Minorities in International Law. The Hague: Kluwer.
1992a. �Human Rights in the New World Order,� World Policy Journal
9 (Spring): 249-77.
1992b. �Twentieth Century Realism.� In David Mapel and Terry
Nardin, Traditions of International Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
1992c. �Conceptual Issues in Monitoring Human Rights Violations.�
In Alex P. Schmid and Albert J. Jongman (eds.), Monitoring Human Rights
Violations. Leiden: Center for the Study of Social Conflicts.
1992d. �The United Nations and the Global Drug Control Regime.�
In Peter H. Smith, Drug Policy in the Americas. Boulder, CO: Westview
Press.
1991a. �Security, Human Rights and East-West Relations: Theoretical
Bases of the Linkage.� In Jan Zielonka and Voitech Mastny, Human
Rights and Security: Europe on the Eve of a New Era. Boulder, CO: Westview
Press.
1991b. �Defining and Conceptualizing Progress in International
Relations.� In Emmanuel Adler and Beverly Crawford, Progress in
Postwar International Relations. New York: Columbia University Press. (coauthor with Emmanuel Adler and Beverly Crawford)
1990a. �Global Policy Studies: A Skeptical View,� Journal of Peace
Research 27 (May): 221-30.
1990b. �Human Rights, Individual Rights and Collective Rights.� In
Jan Berting et al., Human Rights in a Pluralist World: Individuals and
Collectivities. Westport, CT: Meckler (for the Netherlands Commission for
UNESCO and the Roosevelt Study Center).
1990c. Human Rights and Western Liberalism. In Abdulahi Ahmed
An-Na'im and Francis M. Deng, Human Rights in Africa: Cross-Cultural
Perspectives. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution.
1990d. Traditional Values and Universal Human Rights: Caste in
India. In Claude E. Welch, Jr. and Virginia A. Leary, Asian Perspectives
on Human Rights. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
1989. Repression and Development: The Political Contingency of
Human Rights Tradeoffs. In David P. Forsythe, Human Rights and
Development. London: Macmillan, New York: St. Martin's.
1988a. Assessing National Human Rights Performance: A Theoretical
Framework, Human Rights Quarterly 10 (May): 214-48 (co-author with
Rhoda E. Howard).
1988b. Human Rights at the UN, 1955-85: The Question of Bias,
International Studies Quarterly 32 (September): 275-303.
1988c. Human Rights: The Impact of International Action,
International Journal 43 (Spring): 241-63.
1987. Reply to Mitchell, American Political Science Review 81
(September): 924-27 (co-author with Rhoda E. Howard).
1986a. The Emerging International Regime against Torture,
Netherlands International Law Review 33: 1-23.
1986b. Human Dignity, Human Rights and Political Regimes,
American Political Science Review 80 (September): 801-17 (co-author with
Rhoda E. Howard).
1986c. International Human Rights: A Regime Analysis,
Organization 40 (Summer): 599-642.
International
1985a. The Force of Rights: Parent on 'Moral Specification,'
Philosophical Studies 47 (January): 131-39.
1985b. In Search of the Unicorn: The Jurisprudence of the Right to
Development, and The Theology of the Right to Development: A
Reply to Alston, California Western International Law Journal 15
(Summer): 473-509, 519-23.
1985c. Satisfying Basic Needs in Africa: Human Rights, Markets and
the State, Africa Today 32: 7-24.
1984a. Cultural Relativism and Universal Human Rights, Human
Rights Quarterly 6 (November): 400-419.
1984b. Human Rights and Development: Complementary or
Competing Concerns? World Politics 36 (January): 255-83.
1984c. Human Rights, Humanitarian Intervention, and American
Foreign Policy: Law, Morality and Politics, Journal of International Affairs
37 (Winter): 311-28.
1984d. The 'Right to Development': How Not to Link Human Rights
and Development. In Claude E. Welch, Jr. and Ronald I. Meltzer,
Human Rights and Development in Africa. Albany: State University of New
York Press.
1983. The Human Rights Priorities of the UN: A Rejoinder to
Alston, International Organization 37 (Summer): 547-50.
1982a. How Are Rights and Duties Correlative?
Inquiry 16: 287-97.
1982b. Human Rights and Foreign Policy,
574-95.
Journal of Value
World Politics 34 (July):
1982c. Human Rights and Human Dignity: An Analytic Critique of
Non-Western Human Rights Conceptions, American Political Science
Review 76 (June): 303-16.
1982d. Human Rights as Natural Rights,
(August): 391-405.
Human Rights Quarterly 4
1981. Recent Trends in UN Human Rights Activity: Description and
Polemic, International Organization 35 (Autumn): 633-55.
1980. Natural Law and Right in Aquinas' Political Thought, Western
Political Quarterly 33 (December): 520-35.
Other Publications
1999a. Critique of the Reagan Administration in U.S. Human Rights
Policy: A 20-Year Assessment (United States Institute of Peace Special
Report, June 16, 1999).
1999b. Human Rights and Democracy in Avi Sagi and Yedida Z.
Stern (eds.), Democratic Culture, vol. 2, Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University
Press.
1996a. What Are Human Rights? in Introduction to Human Rights,
United States Information Agency. (Revised edition, 1998.) (French
translation at http://civnet.org/civitas/africa/ droits/humrts.htm)
1996b. Human Rights Self-Monitoring: A Proposal for the Northern European
Democracies, Bergen: Christian Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 1996:
3) (co-author with Rhoda E. Howard).
1990. Confronting Revolution in Nicaragua: U.S. and Canadian Responses. New
York: Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs. (co-author
with Rhoda E. Howard).
Forthcoming Publications (* = available on my Web page
http://www.du.edu/~jdonnell/papers.htm)
The Ethics of Realism.
In Christian Reus-Smit and Duncan Snidal,
eds., Oxford Handbook of International Relations (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2008).
In Progress (* = available on my Web page
http://www.du.edu/~jdonnell/papers.htm)
*
The Constitutional Structure of International Society.
Reprinted Articles
Reprint of 2004a as Diretos Humanos Internacionais: Consequencias
Nao Intencionais da Guerra contra o Terrorismo, Contexto Internacional
2003 25 (Julho/Dezembro): 333-361.
Reprint of 2002a in Mark Lattimer (ed.), Genocide and Human Rights.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.
Reprint of 1999e in Patrick Hayden (ed.), The Philosophy of Human
Rights: Readings in Context. St. Paul, MN: Paragon House, 2001.
Reprint of 1998b in Barbara Mori (ed.), Race and Ethnicity: Competing Ideas
and Opinions. Madison, WI: Coursewise Publishing, 2000.
Reprint of 1994a in Joel E. Rosenthal, Ethics and International Affairs: A
Reader. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1995.
Reprint of 1992a in Michael T. Klare and Daniel C. Thomas, World
Security: Challenges for a New Century (Second edition). New York: St. Martin's,
1994.
Reprint of Introduction to Donnelly and Howard (eds.) 1987 in
Robert J. Art and Robert Jervis, International Politics: Enduring Concepts
and Contemporary Issues. New York: Harper Collins. Third Edition, 1991;
Fourth Edition, 1996; Fifth Edition, 2000.
Reprint of 1986b (revised) in Micheline R. Ishay (ed.), The Human Rights
Reader. New York: Routledge, 1997; Second Edition, 2007.
Reprint of 1986c in Emmanuel Adler and Beverly Crawford, Progress in
Postwar International Relations. New York: Columbia University Press,
1991.
Reprint of 1985b in Henry J. Steiner, Philip Alston, and Ryan Goodman
(eds.), International Human Rights in Context: Law, Politics, Morals. 3rd ed.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Reprint of 1984a in Frank Newman and David Weissbrodt, International
Human Rights: Law, Policy, Process. Cincinnati: Anderson, 1990.
Reprint of 1984b in George W. Shepherd, Jr. and Ved P. Nanda, Human
Rights and Third World Development. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press,
1985.
Reprint of 1984c in Richard P. Claude and Burns Weston, Human Rights
and The World Community: Issues and Action. Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 1989, and second edition, 1992.
Reprint of 1982c in Philip Alston (ed.), Human Rights Law. New York:
New York University Press, 1996;
and in Frederick E. Snyder and Surakiart Sathirathai, Third World
Attitudes Toward International Law. Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1987;
and (translated into Thai) in Chulalongkorn Law Journal 10 (no. 2,
1985).
Invited Lectures
Coss Lecture, Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of
American Philosophy, Charleston South Carolina, March 2007.
The
Relative Universality of Human Rights.
NEH Summer Faculty, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, July
2006.
Human Rights, Democracy, and Development.
Occidental College, Los Angeles, April 2006.
The Relative
Universality of Internationally Recognized Human Rights.
Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, July 2002.
Intervention and International Society.
Humanitarian
Tehran University, March 2002. International Human Rights and
Terrorism: Six Months after September 11.
Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran, March 2002. Universalism
and Relativism and Implementing Human Rights: The American
Experience.
Oxford, London School of Economics, Canterbury, Manchester, and
Keele, November-December 2001. Lectures on human rights and
humanitarian intervention.
London School of Economics, November 2001. The Constitutional
Structure of International Society: The Case of Ancient Greece.
Graduate Center, City University of New York, April 2000.
and Regional Perspectives on International Human Rights.
Dartmouth College, November 1998.
Cultural Relativism.
Vassar College, October 1998.
Global
Universal Human Rights and
Liberalism and Human Rights.
Southwestern University, October 1998.
at Fifty.
International Human Rights
University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 1998.
Future of International Human Rights.
The State and the
Institute of International Relations, Hanoi, Vietnam, March 1998.
Human Rights and International Society.
Keele University, May 1997. Human Rights: A New Standard of
Civilization? Fifth R. J. Vincent Memorial Lecture.
University of Utrecht, October 1996.
Policy.
Human Rights and Foreign
Trondheim University, September 1996.
Rights.
Democracy and Human
Christian Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway, September 1996.
Monitoring International Human Rights.
Singapore Society of International Law, March 1996.
and Asian Values.
Human Rights
West Virginia FACDIS (Faculty and Course Development in
International Studies) Conference, Morgantown, November 1995.
Keynote Address: International Human Rights: Historical and
Theoretical Perspectives.
Phi Theta Kappa Honors Institute on Rights and Responsibilities,
Orange, California, June 1995. International Human Rights.
NEH Summer Faculty Institute, University of Virginia, June 1994.
Defining Universal Human Rights, and Implementing
Internationally Recognized Human Rights.
Yale University Law School, April 1993. Fear, Honor, and Interest:
The Social Construction of Realism.
Norwegian Institute of Human Rights, Oslo, April 1992. The Future
of Human Rights in the Developing World.
Christian Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway, April 1992. Six lectures
on International Human Rights.
New York University Law School, January 1992.
Post-Cold War World.
Human Rights in a
Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver,
October 1991. Human Rights in a New World Order.
Ministry of External Affairs, Montevideo, Uruguay, August 1990.
Human Rights and Foreign Policy after the Democratic Revolutions.
University of Leiden, April 1990. Confronting Revolution in
Nicaragua: U.S. and Canadian Responses.
York University, Center for Refugee Studies, December 1989.
International Ethics and International Migration.
Erasmus University of Rotterdam, May 1989.
Human Rights.
The Universality of
Columbia University, University Seminar on Human Rights, November
1987. Human Rights and Foreign Policy: Forty Years of Thinking.
Mary Baldwin College, November 1987.
Matter?
Which Human Rights Really
USIS American Cultural Centers in Seoul, Kwangju, Pusan and Taegu,
South Korea, September 1985. Lectures on dependency theory and East
Asian development.
Agnes Scott College, January 1985. Civil Liberties, Natural Rights, and
the Liberal State.
University of Toronto, Development Studies Programme, January 1984.
Human Rights and Development.
Media Interviews
BBC World Service, CNN, The Economist, Times Higher Education
Supplement, O Globo (Rio de Janiero), Korea Times (Seoul), KUSA TV.
Referee
Journals: American Political Science Review, Australian Journal of
Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Cambridge Review
of International Affairs, Canadian Journal of African Studies,
Comparative Political Studies, Connecticut Review, European Journal of
International Relations (Editorial Board 2004-2007), Global
Governance, Human Rights Quarterly, International Affairs
(International Editorial Advisory Board, 2008- ), International
Organization (Editorial Board, 1991-1996), International Relations
(Editorial Board 2001-2006), International Studies Quarterly,
International Theory (Editorial Board 2007- ), Journal of International
Relations and Development, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of
Political Philosophy, Journal of Politics, Journal of Human Rights
(Editorial Board, 2002- ), Millennium, Muslim World Journal of Human
Rights (Editorial Board 2004- ), Political Science Quarterly, Political
Theory, Polity, PS, Review of International Studies (Editorial Board,
2001-2004), Soviet Union/Union Sovietique.
Publishers: Cambridge University Press, Cornell University Press, Duke
University Press, Harper-Collins, Johns Hopkins University Press,
McGill-Queens University Press, University of Nebraska Press (Editorial
Board, International Human Rights Series), Oxford University Press,
Palgrave Press, University of Pennsylvania Press, Penn State University
Press, Prentice-Hall, Princeton University Press, Random House, Lynne
Reinner Press, Rowman & Littlefield, Temple University Press,
Westview Press.
Funding Agencies: National Endowment for the Humanities, National
Science Foundation, Social Sciences Federation of Canada, Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, U.S. Department
of Education, United States Institute of Peace.
Tenure and Promotion: American University, Brown University, City
University of New York, Drexel University, Franklin and Marshall
University, Georgetown University, Georgia Technological Institute,
University of California at Irvine, Keele University, Marquette
University, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, University of
Minnesota, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Northwestern University,
University of Notre Dame, University of Oregon, Santa Clara University,
Sussex University, Syracuse University, Trinity College, University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, University of Utah.
External PhD Reviewer: Australian National University, University of
Sydney, University of Otago.