How power works (and how it stops good things from happening)

What Game of Thrones (and New Jersey politics) can teach us about political power.

This article is part of a series on human rights. To read the rest of the articles, click here.

Before we go any further in this course on human rights, there’s an elephant in the room that I need to address: the global human rights regime is an almost insanely idealistic endeavor, and the gap between how human rights theorists want the world to work and…