Tim Dunne / J. Wheeler (eds.)

Human Rights in Global Politics

Herausgeber: Dunne, Tim; Wheeler, Nicholas J.; Dunne, Timothy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 724g
• ISBN-13: 9780521641388
• ISBN-10: 0521641381
• Artikelnr.: 21768750

Inhaltsangabe

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.