From the Past to the Future: Human Rights in the Modern World (Some thoughts after reading the book)

This article presents an analysis of the recently published collective monograph "From the Past to the Future: Human Rights in the Modern World" (edited by V.A. Fadeev and A.Kh. Abashidze, Moscow, 2025), prepared by leading Russian experts in international law, human rights theory, political science, and the humanities. The monograph demonstrates that it offers a holistic understanding of the evolution of human rights—from natural law concepts to their institutionalization in international law and contemporary political and legal practice—in the context of the transformation of the global legal order and growing geopolitical and civilizational confrontation. Particular attention is paid to the civilizational approach to human rights, where human rights are viewed as part of the sociocultural identity of peoples and a subject of intercultural dialogue between various legal traditions (Islamic, Eurasian, and Confucian). A significant place in the monograph is occupied by a critique of the practice of instrumentalizing human rights in international politics, an analysis of the concepts of humanitarian intervention, "responsibility to protect," human rights NGO rankings, and the GONGO phenomenon as instruments of "soft power." It also demonstrates how the traditional human rights architecture is confronted with new technological and bioethical risks. The author emphasizes the monograph's interdisciplinary nature, methodological diversity, and combination of philosophical-legal, political-legal, religious-ethical, and sociocultural analysis. The author concludes that the monograph makes a significant theoretical and applied contribution to the development of modern human rights theory and the formation of a multipolar, culturally balanced system of human rights protection.

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