Abstract:

While the international milieu has benefited unequivocally from the development of specialised legal systems, human rights stand out as a clear example of the Pantagruelian “fight” between individual and society. The mechanisms by which intervention outside the self-defence narrative can be made justifiable, if not mandatory, beyond a strictly state-oriented justification lays the grounds for an internationalization constructed around human rights as a uniformization vector of unprecedented legal force and recognition. While the development of human rights as a central crux of the international logos is necessary for the advancement of the human race in itself, an overstatement and overreaching approach can result in paradoxical uses of the law. The aim of our scientific inquiry is to determine whether or not normative development, or “overdevelopment”, constitutes a sustainable instrument of soft power.