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Ethics & International Affairs
Volume 10, Issue 1

The New Dimensions of Human Rights

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; and Professor of American Foreign Policy at the Paul Nitze School for Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC. From 1977 to 1981, he was National Security Advisor to the President of the United States. In 1981 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his role in the normalization of U.S.–Chinese relations and for his contributions to the human rights and national security policies of the United States. He has been on the faculty of Harvard and Columbia Universities. His most recent book is Out of Control: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the 21st Century (Scribner, 1993).

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First published: March 1996
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-7093.1996.tb00009.x

Originally presented as the fourteenth annual Morgenthau Memorial Lecture on Ethics and Foreign Policy, sponsored by the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs (New York City) on April 6, 1995.

Abstract

Brzezinski shapes his discussion around three “new dimensions” of human rights: the protection of human rights from the arbitrary power of the state, the institutionalization of democracy, and the need to confront the potential exploitation of human individuality by science. Brzezinski predicts that the interface between ethics and science will be the new frontier of politics, and it will place on the shoulders of democratic leaders, and ultimately on all those who are concerned with human rights, the obligation to be at least part‐time scientists and philosophers.

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