Kenneth Hunter, Timothy Mack

International Rights and Responsibilities for the Future

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Produktbeschreibung

Underpinning contemporary political debates and organizational restructuring is a serious rethinking of rights and responsibilities in the roles of governments, communities, companies, and individuals in a civil society. International Rights and Responsibilities for the Future provides a foundation for these debates by focusing on the need to reintegrate rights and responsibilities with contributions by authorities engaged in the process. A wide range of notable figures weigh in on the subject: Audrey R. Chapman argues for a revisioning of human rights as an instrument through which interrelated persons shape and reshape a social covenant defining reciprocal rights and responsibilities. Philippa Strum contends that the idea of individual responsibility to the community is central to rights and contract theory, as articulated in the Western tradition. Amitai Etzioni presents the communitarian view of too many rights, too few responsibilities. And David Boaz gives the libertarian view that one fundamental right is the right to live your life as you choose so long as you don't infringe on the equal rights of others. Particular attention is given to the arguments for a new international bill of rights and the issues of peace and security, information and knowledge technologies, the Global Society and knowledge-based development, criminal justice, human rights education, and sustainable development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 519g
• ISBN-13: 9780275955625
• ISBN-10: 0275955621
• Artikelnr.: 21960880

Autorenporträt

KENNETH W. HUNTER is Senior Associate of the Harrison Program on the Future Global Agenda in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park, and is coeditor of the journal Futures Research Quarterly. TIMOTHY C. MACK is president of AAI Research in Washington, DC, a public policy research and strategic planning firm and is coeditor of Futures Research Quarterly.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction: On Building a Human Rights Culture by Charles Henry
Rights and Responsibilities: What Are the Connections? Reintegrating Rights
and Responsibilities: Toward a New Human Rights Paradigm by Audrey R.
Chapman Rights, Responsibilities, and the Social Contract by Philippa Strum
Too Many Rights, Too Few Responsibilities by Amitai Etzioni Rights
Responsibilities, and Community: A Libertarian View by David D. Boaz
Clearing a Path Toward the International Bill of Rights by Peter Juviler
Toward a New International Bill of Human Rights by Vladimir Kartashkin
Confronting the "New World Order": Challenges for International Peace and
Security by George Andreopoulos The "Global Society" Perspective on
International Human Rights by Richard Pierre Claude and David R. Davis
Humanizing 21st-Century Justice: Balancing "Freedom To and Freedom From" by
Gene Stephens Reports of Six Practitioners and Pioneers in a Changing World
The Constitutional Crisis in Russia and the Role of the Constitutional
Court by Ernest M. Ametistov Launching the International Decade of Human
Rights Education: Moving from Concept to Action by Shulamith Koenig Africa
Looking to the Future by Ben W.K. Caiquo The Global Future and
International Cooperation for the Environment by Uttam G. Dabholkar Issues
of Population and Environment: A Report from the Millennium Project
Feasibility Study by Jerome C. Glenn and Theodore J. Gordon Knowledge-based
Development: Creating the Future Today by Robert A. Vitro Continuing Work
on Human Rights for the Future by Kenneth W. Hunter and Timothy C. Mack
Selected Bibliography