Episode 5. International Relations & Human Rights
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There are a number of aspects of Elias’s approach to state-formation and the process of civilization that have important implications for the study of international relations and the impact of a developing politics of human rights, and in this episode Robert van Krieken, Andre Saramgo, and Aurelie Lacassagne talk about how his ideas can contribute to research and theory in this field. 
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