Rappard’s expert-moral-authority model was revived only after the UDHR drafting

Evidence

It was because he believed that the mandate system had at least partially succeeded in this task that Rappard saw it as a model for the UN’s new human rights project. In the subsequent years, as the drafting of the UDHR commenced, Rappard’s lessons seemed to have been ignored by delegates who clashed over political and economic questions and challenged the civilisational hierarchies that motivated the mandate system. His model of the transnational moral authority of impartial experts from the Global North would have to wait several decades to be revived as the dominant model of international human rights activism. When a new generation of human rights NGOs emerged that wielded moral authority and expertise in the public sphere, they flourished alongside concerted attempts to bind postcolonial states to the interests of private capital. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 95

Categorization

• SEED: The co-flourishing of NGO moral authority with binding postcolonial states to private capital is a strong angle for an essay on how ‘human rights’ and neoliberalism emerged as twin projects — the exact theme of this book.
• XREF: Connects to Whyte’s central thesis that the ethics-of-markets debate and human-rights discourse are interwoven, which is the reader’s stated focus. — connects to: The UDHR’s social and economic rights were sharply opposed by early neoliberals as totalitarian.

Broader Connections

• The UDHR’s social and economic rights were sharply opposed by early neoliberals as totalitarian. #complicates (0.72)