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The Caucus for a New Pol'al Sci emerged from a meeting of graduate students at the 1967 convention of the Amer Pol'al Sci Assoc. It Is based on a demand for a new relevance in pol'al sci. Pol'al set is considered irrelevant if it is uncritical of society & assumes the values & soc priorities of corrupt bur'cies, powerful elites or unjust soc practices. The 'established' pol'al set profession is accused of justifying everything in the Amer pol'al system as unique & workable & of condemning attempts to change it. Stability, rather than change, is the highest value, & conflict may be resolved peacefully & fairly within the existing system. Behavioralism, emphasizing the fact/value dichotomy & preoccupied with questions of method & model-building, supports these conservative tendencies. Pol'al sci'ts have become ideologues of the gov. Professionalism & its rewards are determined less by the values & ethics of the discipline than by the values & ethics of the soc & pol'al status quo. There are 3 prospective lines of development for radical pol'al sci: (1) a primarily theoretical one-the development of new paradigms for res & pol'al analysis or new modes of inquiry; (2) the politization & democratization of the APSA & the reform of the discipline, teaching, curricula-with the CNPS as the pinwheel for reform; (3) the creation of a res-action pol'al sci focusing on criticism of Amer instit's & analyses of alternative soc priorities. IPSA.

This week we ask: if the international community can't make states abide by their human rights obligations, what's the point of invoking human rights?