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2021
Sikkink, Kathryn, and John Shattuck. 2021. “Practice What You Preach: Global Human Rights Leadership Begins at Home by Kathryn Sikkink and John Shattuck.” Foreign Affairs. Abstract
Read more here: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2021-04-20/human-rights-practice-what-you-preach
global_human_rights_leadership_begins_at_home_foreign_affairs.pdf
2019
Q+A with Kathryn Sikkink
2019. “Q+A with Kathryn Sikkink.” Communique: The Magazine of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 23, 12-13. Publisher's Version
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International Norms, Moral Psychology, and Neuroscience

International Norms, Moral Psychology, and Neuroscience
Price, Richard, and Kathryn Sikkink. 2021. International Norms, Moral Psychology, and Neuroscience. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Publisher's Version Abstract
Research on international norms has yet to answer satisfactorily some of our own most important questions about the origins of norms and the conditions under which some norms win out over others. The authors argue that international relations (IR) theorists should engage more with research in moral psychology and neuroscience to advance theories of norm emergence and resonance. This Element first provides an overview of six areas of research in neuroscience and moral psychology that hold particular promise for norms theorists and international relations theory more generally. It next surveys existing literature in IR to see how literature from moral psychology is already being put to use, and then recommends a research agenda for norms researchers engaging with this literature. The authors do not believe that this exchange should be a one-way street, however, and they discuss various ways in which the IR literature on norms may be of interest and of use to moral psychologists, and of use to advocacy communities.
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Practice What You Preach: Global Human Rights Leadership Begins at Home by Kathryn Sikkink and John Shattuck

Sikkink, Kathryn, and John Shattuck. 2021. “Practice What You Preach: Global Human Rights Leadership Begins at Home by Kathryn Sikkink and John Shattuck.” Foreign Affairs. Abstract
global_human_rights_leadership_begins_at_home_foreign_affairs.pdf
Read more here: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2021-04-20/human-rights-practice-what-you-preach
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The Hidden Face of Rights: towards a politics of responsibilities

The Hidden Face of Rights: towards a politics of responsibilities
Sikkink, Kathryn. 2020. The Hidden Face of Rights: towards a politics of responsibilities. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 208. Publisher's Version Abstract
Why we cannot truly implement human rights unless we also recognize human responsibilities

When we debate questions in international law, politics, and justice, we often use the language of rights—and far less often the language of responsibilities. Human rights scholars and activists talk about state responsibility for rights, but they do not articulate clear norms about other actors’ obligations. In this book, Kathryn Sikkink argues that we cannot truly implement human rights unless we also recognize and practice the corresponding human responsibilities.
  
Focusing on five areas—climate change, voting, digital privacy, freedom of speech, and sexual assault—where on-the-ground (primarily university campus) initiatives have persuaded people to embrace a close relationship between rights and responsibilities, Sikkink argues for the importance of responsibilities to any comprehensive understanding of political ethics and human rights.
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    kathryn_sikkink I’m delighted that my book Evidence for Hope has been translated into Bahasa Indonesia. Thanks to Ayu Wahyuningroem, PUSAD, CRCS Gajah Mada University and the Asia Foundation. t.co/AFuO64QtcM
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    kathryn_sikkink A current President (Lacalle Pou) and 2 former Presidents of Uruguay (Mujica and Sanguinetti) each from a different party, with Lula at his inauguration. Demonstrating how to support democracy in the region. t.co/fobpGsf4YG
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Kathryn Sikkink

Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy
Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute
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