Introduction to International Communication

Documents available online- Bartolomé de Las Casas, “Short Report on the Destruction of the Indies” and “Sublimus Deus
- Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, The Second Democrates (1 page)
- Locke, “Of Property,” Ch. V of Two Treatises of Government
- Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Book III, Ch. VII, “Of Colonies” (40 pages)
- Diderot, Section of Supplement to the Voyage of Bougainville (15 pages)
- Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality (10 pages)
- Burke, Edmund (1788). Speech at the Trial of Warren Hastings. The World’s Famous Orations. 1906.
- Benjamin Franklin, “Rules for Reducing a Great Empire to A Small One” (2 pages)
- US Declaration of Independence (1776) (2 pages)
- Emerson, excerpts from “Nature” (10 pages)
- Kant (1795) “Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay” (30 pages)
- Herder, Materials for the Philosophy of the History of Mankind (6 pages)
- Marx, Karl (1853) "British Rule in India" and "India"
- UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- Soekarno’s Speech at the Bandung Conference.
- The Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam
- Heiner Bielefeldt and Mohammad Saeed Bahmanpour, “The politics of social justice: religion versus human rights?” 7 November 2002. OpenDemocracy.
*Kompendium nr 949
 
Jonathan Hall (ed.).
Content:
- Edward Said, Ch. 1, Section 1, “Knowing the Oriental” in Orientalism (9 pages)
- Frantz Fanon, “On National Culture.” Ch. IV of Wretched of the Earth(10 pages)
- Chinua Achebe, “An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.” Reprinted in various places including the Norton Critical Edition of Heart of Darkness. (10 pages)
- Homi Bhabha, “Signs Taken for Wonders: Questions of Ambivalence and Authority under a Tree outside Delhi, May 1817.” Critical Inquiry, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Autumn, 1985), pp. 144-165. (30 pages)
- Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. “Can the Subaltern Speak?” Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture. Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg (eds). Chicago: U of Illinoi P, 1988. (30 pages)
- Amartya Sen, “Human Rights and Asian Values,” The New Republic, July 14-July 21, 1997 (16 pages)
- Susan Muller Okin, “When Cultural Values Clash with Universal Rights: Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?” Originally published in Boston Review of Books.
*Kompendium nr 950
 
Jonathan Hall (ed.).
Content:
- Muthu, Sankar (1999). Enlightenment Anti-Imperialism. Social Research 66.4: 959-1007.

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