Achieving Human Rights

Name: Achieving Human Rights
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ISBN: 9780415990165

ISBN-10: 0415990165

ISBN-13: 9780415990165

Edition: 2009

Authors: Richard A. Falk

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Richard Falk once again captures our attention with a nuanced analysis of what we need to doat the personal level as well as state actionsto refocus our pursuit of human rights in a post-9/11 world. From democratic global governance, to the costs of the Iraq War, the preeminent role of the United States in the world order to the role of individual citizens of a globalized world, Falk stresses the moral urgency achieving human rights. In elegant simplicity, this book places the priority such an ethos in the personal decisions we make in our human interactions, not just the activities of government institutions and non-governmental organizations. Falk masterly weaves together such topics as…

Book details

List price: $42.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 10/28/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Richard Falk is Professor of Law at Princeton University.



Preface


Introduction



Overview



Toward a Necessary Utopianism: Democratic Global Governance



The Power of Rights and the Rights of Power: What Future for Human Rights?



Orientalism and International Law



Nurturing Global Democracy



Toward Global Democracy



Citizenship and Globalization



International Criminal Law



The Holocaust and the Emergence of International Human Rights



The Pinochet Moment: Whither Universal Jurisdiction?



Genocide at the World Court: The Case Against Serbia



Human Rights After 9/11



A Descending Spiral



Encroaching on the Rule of Law: Counter-Terrorist Justifications



Humanitarian Intervention



Beyond Politics



Crimes, Lies, and Law: Human Rights in Adversity



Humanity in Question



The Ideal of the Citizen Pilgrim


Notes


Acknowledgements


Index