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| List of Case Studies | |
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| List of Problems | |
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| Tables and Boxes | |
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| Acronyms | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: A Note to the Reader | |
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| Introduction and Theory | |
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| Human Rights as an Issue in World Politics | |
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| The Emergence of International Human Rights Norms | |
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| From Cold War to Covenants | |
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| The 1970s: From Standard Setting to Monitoring | |
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| The 1980s: Further Growth and Institutionalization | |
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| The 1990s: Consolidating Progress and Acting Against Genocide | |
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| International Human Rights After 9/11 | |
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| The Global Human Rights Regime | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Theories of Human Rights | |
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| The Nature of Human Rights | |
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| The Source or Justification of Human Rights | |
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| Equal Concern and Respect | |
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| Interdependent and Indivisible Human Rights | |
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| The Duty-Bearers of Human Rights | |
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| Human Rights and Related Practices | |
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| Sovereignty, Anarchy, and International Society | |
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| Three Models of International Human Rights | |
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| Realism and Human Rights | |
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| Democracy and Human Rights | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| The Relative Universality of Human Rights | |
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| Universality and Relativity | |
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| International Legal Universality | |
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| Overlapping Consensus Universality | |
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| Functional Universality | |
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| Anthropological or Historical Relativity | |
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| Cultural Relativism | |
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| Universal Rights, Not Identical Practices | |
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| Universalism Without Imperialism | |
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| The Relative Universality of Human Rights | |
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| Hate Speech | |
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| Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| The Domestic Politics of Human Rights: Dirty Wars in the Southern Cone | |
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| Politics Before the Coups | |
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| Torture and Disappearances | |
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| The National Security Doctrine | |
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| Human Rights NGOs | |
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| The Collapse of Military Rule | |
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| Nunca M�s: Settling Accounts with Torturers and the Past | |
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| Postscript: Maintaining Civilian Rule | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Multilateral, Bilateral, and Transnational Action | |
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| Global Multilateral Mechanisms | |
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| The Human Rights Council | |
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| The High Commissioner for Human Rights | |
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| Treaty-Reporting Systems | |
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| Additional Global Actors | |
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| Case Study: The Antiapartheid Regime | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Regional Human Rights Regimes | |
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| The European Regional Regime | |
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| The Inter-American System | |
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| The African Regional Regime | |
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| The Arab World and Asia | |
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| Case Study: Chile and the Inter-American Commission | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Assessing Multilateral Mechanisms | |
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| The Evolution of International Human Rights Regimes | |
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| Assessing Multilateral Human Rights Mechanisms | |
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| Human Rights in American Foreign Policy: Cold War-Era Cases and Comparisons | |
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| Anticommunism and American Exceptionalism | |
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| Case Study: US Policy in Central America | |
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| Case Study: US Policy in the Southern Cone | |
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| Case Study: US Policy Toward South Africa | |
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| Other Western Approaches to International Human Rights | |
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| Explaining Differences in Human Rights Policies | |
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| US Ratification of Human Rights Treaties | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Human Rights and Foreign Policy | |
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| Human Rights and the National Interest | |
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| Means and Mechanisms of Bilateral Action | |
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| The Aims and Effects of Human Rights Policies | |
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| Foreign Policy and Human Rights Policy | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Transnational Human Rights Advocacy | |
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| Amnesty International | |
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| Human Rights Watch | |
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| Nonpartisan Action | |
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| NGO Legitimacy | |
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| Human Rights Obligations of MNCs | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Comparing International Actors and Evaluating International Action | |
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| Comparing International Actors | |
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| The Priority of National Action | |
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| A System of International Accountability | |
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| Post-Cold War Issues and Cases | |
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| Responding to Human Rights Violations in China: Tiananmen and After | |
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| China's Democracy Movement | |
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| International Responses to Tiananmen | |
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| Assessing the Impact of International Action | |
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| Constructive Engagement Revisited | |
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| Human Rights and Great Power China | |
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| Human Rights and "Asian Values" | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Humanitarian Intervention Against Genocide | |
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| Case Study: Bosnia | |
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| Case Study: Rwanda | |
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| Case Study: Kosovo | |
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| The Authority to Intervene | |
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| Case Study: East Timor | |
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| A Right to Humanitarian Intervention Against Genocide | |
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| Case Study: Sudan | |
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| Justifying Humanitarian Intervention | |
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| Types of Justifiability | |
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| A New Conception of Security | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Globalization, the State, and Human Rights | |
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| Globalization | |
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| States and Human Rights | |
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| Markets and Welfare States | |
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| Market Democracy and American Foreign Policy | |
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| An Alliance of States and Human Rights Advocates? | |
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| West, South, and Market Redistributions | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| (Anti)Terrorism and Human Rights | |
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| Human Rights in Post-Cold War American Foreign Policy | |
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| The Retreat of Human Rights | |
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| Human Rights, Security, and Foreign Policy | |
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| The Axis of Evil | |
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| The War Against Iraq | |
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| The Waning of the War? | |
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| The Absolute Prohibition of Torture | |
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| (Anti)Terrorism and Civil Liberties | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Notes | |
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| Appendix: Universal Declaration of Human Rights | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |