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Review Essay: On a Cosmopolis to Come

IN HUMAN Rights and Empire (2007) Costas Douzinas offers his most politically astute thinking on the paradoxes of democracy and rights to date. While remaining faithful to the theoretical underpinnings of The End of Human Rights (Douzinas, 2000), he goes further in his critique of human rights agendas and the humanitarian industry that has abandoned politics in favour of the ‘combating of Evil’. By drawing attention to a number of contemporary international scenarios, Douzinas illustrates that human rights are being co-opted in the name of regulation and the ‘religion of capital’ (Derrida, 1992: 77):