A growing number of jurisdictions have recently granted rights to nature. This article places the potential disruptions generated by this legal development in historical, comparative perspective. The questions that scholars are asking about nature (RoN) similar many those asked historians and human rightsholders. These arise from some tensions within liberalism. Placing these context offers a f...

t seems clear that Russia’s attempts at democratization and Westernization will not meet the expectations of Russia’s democratic reformers. As happened in previous eras of Westernization, only some elements of Western liberal democracy have taken root in Russian soil, the most important of them being competitive elections. Other fundamental elements of liberalism have not only failed to flouris...

This paper examines the conceptual dichotomy between ‘negative right’ and ‘positive in current discourse of human rights. The has been embedded due to historical description generations rights, encompassing civil political rights that have liberalism influences, economic, social, cultural socialist last generation being collective solidarity analyses from standpoint right development, with some...

Globalization is a crucial turning point for the era of modernity, signifying a passage to a technological globalized human society. The basic vehicle of globalization is thus technology which enables the production of goods, the international trade, the exchange of human knowledge and international transportation and communication to a point where the very meaning of time and space are shorten...