Bill & Connie Bowen Odyssey Professor of Politics
Office Location: Mills 217
Email: whelan@hendrix.edu
Phone: 501-450-1207
Education
- Ph.D., Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver
- M.A., School of International Service, American University
- B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Recent Publications
- The Right to Development, in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies (December 2022)
- International Human Rights (with Jack Donnelly) (6th edition). New York: Routledge, 2020.
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“Conflating Human
Rights and Economic Justice – A Genealogy of the Right to Development,” in Human Rights and Justice: Philosophical, Economic and Social Perspectives (Melissa
Labonte and Kurt Mills, eds). New York: Routledge (2018).
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“Introduction to the
Right to Development: History, Evolution and Contemporary Challenges,” (co
authored with Mihir Kanade and Shyami Puvimanasinghe), in E-Learning
Module on Operationalizing the Right to Development in Implementing the
Sustainable Development Goals, Kanade, M; Puvimanasinghe S; Aginam O;
Schwartz P eds. (Geneva, Ciudad Colon and Kuala Lumpur: UN, UPEACE and
UNU-IIGH), Chapter 1. (2018).
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“‘Under
the Aegis of Man’: The Right to Development and the Origins of the NIEO,” Humanity 6.1: 93-108 (Spring 2015).
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“Indivisible Human
Rights and the End(s) of the State,” in Human Rights Protection and Global Politics:
Responsibilities of State and Non-State Actors (Kurt Mills and David Karp,
eds.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2015).
- “The Two Covenants and the Evolution of Human
Rights,” in The SAGE Handbook of Human Rights (Anja Mihr and Mark
Gibney, eds.) Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications (2014).
- “The Emerging Jurisprudence of Human
Dignity.” Review of Dignity Rights: Courts, Constitutions, and the
Worth of the Human Person, by Erin Daly (Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2013). International Studies Review 16:129-132 (2014).
- Book Review of Against Massacre:
Humanitarian Interventions in the Ottoman Empire, 1815-1914 by Davide
Rodogno (Princeton University Press, 2012). American Historical Review
118 (2013): 293-294.
- "Human Rights," in The Oxford Companion to International Relations (2013)
- "Human Rights," in The Oxford Companion to Comparative Politics (2012)
- Indivisible Human Rights -- A History (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010) Supplementary Documents
- The Reality of Western Support for Economic and Social Rights: A Reply to Susan Kang (with Jack Donnelly). Human Rights Quarterly 31(4): 1030-1054 (November 2009).
- Yes, A Myth: A Reply to Kirkup and Evans (with Jack Donnelly). Human Rights Quarterly 31(1): 239-255 (February 2009)
- The West, Economic and Social Rights, and the Global Human Rights Regime: Setting the Record Straight (with Jack Donnelly). Human Rights Quarterly 29(4): 908-949 (November 2007).
Curriculum Vitae