HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE MULTIPOLAR WORLD: BETWEEN THE UNIVERSALISM AND THE PLURALISM

The aim of this article is to examine the relation between the notions of human rights and the democratic politics in the face of its philosophical foundation, in view of the notion called the New World Order. In this perspective, it presents, by the vision of the theory of radical and plural democracy postulated by Chantal Mouffe, the conditions to think about an order based on key concepts of pluralism. Therefore, it is argued the main arguments of the cosmopolitan version on the assumption of universal validity claims, notably in Jurgen Habermas's thinking as an obstacle to legitimate human rights. This reading helps to understand the possibilities of theoretical advances provided by the multipolar project proposed by Chantal Mouffe and it identifies the main obstacles and possible ways to think a politics of human rights.