01676pab a2200181 454500008004000000100002000040245009000060260000900150300001500159362000800174520111900182650001701301773003801318908000601356909001001362999001701372952010501389180718b2009   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aBenhabib, Seyla  aClaiming rights across borders: international human rights and democratic sovereignty  c2009  ap.691-704.  aNov  aThe status of international law and transnational legal agreements with respect to the sovereignty claims of liberal democracies has become a highly contentious theoretical and political issue. Although recent European discussions focus on global constitutionalism, there is increasing reticence on the part of many that prospects of a world constitution are neither desirable nor salutary. This article more closely considers criticisms of these legal transformations by distinguishing the nationalist from democratic sovereigntiste positions, and both, from diagnoses that see the universalization of human rights norms either as the Trojan horse of a global empire or as neocolonialist intentions to assert imperial control over the world. These critics ignore "the jurisgenerativity of law." Although democratic sovereigntistes are wrong in minimizing how human rights norms improve democratic self-rule; global constitutionalists are also wrong in minimizing the extent to which cosmopolitan norms require local contextualization, interpretation, and vernacularization by self-governing peoples. - Reproduced.  aHuman rights  aAmerican Political Science Review  aN  a85650  c85650d85650  00104070aIIPAbIIPAd2018-07-19hVolume no: 103, Issue no: 4pAR86110r2018-07-19w2018-07-19yAR