| Description |
xi, 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: human rights and the fifty years' crisis / Tim Dunne and Nicholas J. Wheeler -- Three tyrannies / Ken Booth -- The social construction of international human rights / Jack Donnelly -- Universal human rights: a critique / Chris Brown -- Non-ethnocentric universalism / Bhikhu Parekh -- Towards an ethic of global responsibility / Mary Midgley -- The challenge of genocide and genocidal politics in an era of globalisation / Richard Falk -- Transnational civil society / Mary Kaldor -- Global voices: civil society and the media in global crises / Martin Shaw -- Refugees: a global human rights and security crisis / Gil Loescher -- The silencing of women / Georgina Ashworth -- Power, principles and prudence: protecting human rights in a deeply divided world / Andrew Hurrell -- Learning beyond frontiers / Ken Booth and Tim Dunne. |
| Summary |
"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."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Subject |
Human rights.
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| Added Author |
Dunne, Timothy, 1965-
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Wheeler, Nicholas J.
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| ISBN |
0521641381 hb |
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9780521641388 hb |
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052164643X paperback |
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9780521646437 paperback |
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