Name: Eduard Jordaan
Phone: 046 603 7400
Email: e.jordaan@ru.ac.za
Fax: 046 603 7613

Qualifications:

DPhil (Stellenbosch)

Further Details

Professor Jordaan is an Associate Professor and the current Head of Department.

Biography

Eduard Jordaan obtained his D.Phil. from the 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Stellenbosch. His dissertation used the ideas of the French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas to show how political and moral philosophy contains elements that allow for indifference to the distant poor.

Research

Eduard continues to do research on philosophical questions of responsibility, dialogue and community across national borders. In recent years, Eduard Jordaan has started doing research on the UN Human Rights Council. He is particularly interested in the future of human rights in the context of what others have described as the decline of the West and the ‘rise of the rest’. More specifically, are developing countries likely to support international human rights and, by implication, the liberal international order?

Recent Publications

“A ‘Willing Accomplice’? Evaluating South Africa’s Response to China’s Positions on International Human Rights,” South African Journal of International Affairs, 31 (2), 2024, pp. 191–214.

“Still a ‘Mutual Praise Society’? The African Group at the Universal Periodic Review” in Damian Etone, Amna Nazir and Alice Storey (eds), Human Rights and the UN Universal Periodic Review Mechanism: A Research Companion, London: Routledge, 2024.

“After Obama: The African Group at the UN Human Rights Council” in Salvador Santino F. Regilme and Irene Hadiprayitno (eds), Human Rights at Risk: Global Governance, American Power, and the Future of Dignity, New Brunswick: Rutgers 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Press, 2022.

“Worthy of Membership? Rwanda and South Africa on the United Nations Human Rights Council,” African Human Rights Law Journal, 21 (2), 2021, pp. 703-733.

South Africa and the UN Human Rights Council: The Fate of the Liberal Order (2020), London: Routledge.

“Elephants in the Room: Botswana and the United Nations Universal Periodic Review,” in Nordic Journal of Human Rights, 37 (1), 2019, pp. 42-62.

“South Africa and Civil and Political Rights on the United Nations Human Rights Council,” in Global Governance, 25 (1), 2019, pp. 171-197.

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