Sabine C. Carey, Mark Gibney, Steven C. Poe

The Politics of Human Rights

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Human rights is an important issue in contemporary politics, and the last few decades have also seen a remarkable increase in research and teaching on the subject. This book introduces students to the study of human rights and aims to build on their interest while simultaneously offering an alternative vision of the subject. Many texts focus on the theoretical and legal issues surrounding human rights. This book adopts a substantially different approach which uses empirical data derived from research on human rights by political scientists to illustrate the occurrence of different types of human rights violations across the world. The authors devote attention to rights as well as to responsibilities, neither of which stops at one country's political borders. They also explore how to deal with repression and the aftermath of human rights violations, making students aware of the prospects for and realities of progress. A cutting-edge textbook analysing where and why human rights are violated. Adopting a unique empirical approach, The Politics of Human Rights provides a different slant to the theoretical approaches of other texts and directly challenges many of the previously unquestioned assumptions concerning human rights.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9780521614054
• ISBN-10: 0521614058
• Artikelnr.: 31868474

Autorenporträt

Sabine C. Carey is Associate Professor and Reader in Political Science in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham and the Centre for the Study of Civil War (CSCW) at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. Human Rights and State Responsibilities: 1. The concept of human rights; 2. State responsibilities; 3. Rights with responsibilities; Part II. Empirical Representations and Explanations of Human Rights Violations: 4. Where are human rights violated?; 5. Why are human rights violated? An examination of personal integrity rights; Part III. Intervening and Rebuilding in the Wake of Repression: 6. Intervening to protect human rights; 7. Rebuilding society in the aftermath of repression; 8. Toward the future.

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Introduction
Part I. Human Rights and State Responsibilities: 1. The concept of human rights
2. State responsibilities
3. Rights with responsibilities
Part II. Empirical Representations and Explanations of Human Rights Violations: 4. Where are human rights violated?
5. Why are human rights violated? An examination of personal integrity rights
Part III. Intervening and Rebuilding in the Wake of Repression: 6. Intervening to protect human rights
7. Rebuilding society in the aftermath of repression
8. Toward the future.