CHIMNI MUTUA RAJAGOPAL ANGHIE
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What are New Social Movements and Old Social Movements?
NSM and OSM stand for this and this, respectively.
100
What is Savage-victim-savior?
SVS stands for...
100
What are the discourses that Rajagopal says must be deconstructed?
Human Rights and Development Discourses
100
What is the 17th century treaty that established the concept of state sovereignty?
Treaty of Westphalia
200
What are (multiple correct answers): Revisiting the idea of socialism, striking alliances with other groups critical of the neoliberal approach to international law (like feminist groups), increasing transparency and accountability of international instit
This is one of the future goals or tasks of TWAIL (other than those listed in the handout).
200
What are the three functions of an INGO?
Investigate, Report, Advocate
200
What are two Third World movements that were aided by International Law?
The Anti-Apartheid and Palestinian movements.
200
What is the system that the League of Nations used to facilitate the decolonization process and “create” sovereign governments in the Third World?
The Mandate System
300
What is Chimni's critique of the idea of good governance?
The inability to govern is projected as the root cause of frequent internal conflicts and the accompanying violation of human rights necessitating humanitarian assistance and intervention by the North.
300
What is the Human Rights movement in its current form?
This is perceived as an alien ideology in many non-western societies.
300
Who is a liberal thinker who has been accused of legitimizing hegemony?
Michael Ignatieff (in the context of the article)
300
What is Positivism?
This theory of international law asserts that the state is the exclusive creator of law, and cannot be bound by any law unless it has consented to it.
400
What is OSMs primarily focus on class based issues and NSMs focus on individual issues (like women’s movement, ecology movement, gay and lesbian movement, peace movement).
OSMs and NSMs are primarily distinguished by the issues
400
What is the movement or historical event that triggered the Human Rights movement?
Hitler's regime or Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals.
400
The War on Terror
This "war" has been one of the greatest expansions of hegemonic power in recent history.
400
Berlin Conference
The great European powers of the period met here to decide on how Africa was to be divided among them.






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