Human rights in global politics
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Human rights in global politics
Cambridge University Press, 1999
- : hard
- : pbk
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  Tochigi
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  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
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  Gifu
  Shizuoka
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  Kyoto
  Osaka
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  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
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  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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. In the first part of the book chapters by Ken Booth, Jack Donnelly, Chris Brown, Bhikhu Parekh and Mary Midgley explore the philosophical basis of claims to universal human rights. In the second part, Richard Falk, Mary Kaldor, Martin Shaw, Gil Loescher, Georgina Ashworth and Andrew Hurrell reflect on the role of the media, global civil society, states, migration, non-governmental organisations, capitalism, and schools and universities in developing a global human rights culture.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: human rights and the fifty years' crisis Tim Dunne and Nicholas J. Wheeler
- Part I. Theories of Human Rights: 1. Three tyrannies of human rights 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
- Part 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 Loescher
- 10. The silencing of women Georgina Ashworth
- 11. Power, principles and prudence: protecting human right in a divided world Andrew Hurrell
- 12. Conclusion: learning beyond frontiers Ken Booth and Tim Dunne.
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