"The worst form of government, except all the others."

Why liberal democracy has failed to take over the world and bestow human rights upon all.

This is part of a series on the basics of human rights, and why it hasn’t saved the world (yet). To read other articles in this series, click here.

In my last article on why the global human rights regime has failed to produce world peace, I discussed the “human” problem with human rights: namely, why pinning down who counts as “human” is deceptively tri…