Human rights in global politics / edited by Tim Dunne and Nicholas J. Wheeler
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- 1328452
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- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999
- xi, 337 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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- 0521641381 (hardback)
- 052164643X (paperback)
- Summary:
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There is a stark contradiction between the theory of universal human rights and the everyday practice of human wrongs. This timely volume investigates whether human rights abuses are a result of the failure of governments to live up to a universal human rights standard, or whether the search for moral universals is a fundamentally flawed enterprise which distracts us from the task of developing rights in the context of particular ethical communities.
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- Introduction: human rights and the fifty years' crisis / Tim Dunne and Nicholas J. Wheeler
- I. Theories of human rights. 1. Three tyrannies / Ken Booth. 2. The social construction of international human rights / Jack Donnelly. 3. Universal human rights: a critique / Chris Brown. 4. Non-ethnocentric universalism / Bhikhu Parekh. 5. Towards an ethic of global responsibility / Mary Midgley
- II. The practices of human wrongs. 6. The challenge of genocide and genocidal politics in an era of globalisation / Richard Falk. 7. Transnational civil society / Mary Kaldor. 8. Global voices: civil society and the media in global crises / Martin Shaw. 9. Refugees: a global human rights and security crisis / Gil Lobscher. 10. The silencing of women / Georgina Ashworth. 11. Power, principles and prudence: protecting human rights in a deeply divided world / Andrew Hurrell. 12. Learning beyond frontiers / Ken Booth and Tim Dunne.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Human rights
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