Human Rights in Global Politics

Name: Human Rights in Global Politics
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ISBN: 9780521646437

ISBN-10: 052164643X

ISBN-13: 9780521646437

Edition: 1999

Authors: Tim Dunne, Nicholas J. Wheeler

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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.

Book details

List price: $37.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/28/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.02" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Introduction: human rights and the fifty years'




Theories of Human Rights



Three tyrannies of human rights




The social construction of international human rights




Universal human rights: a critique Chris Brown



Non-ethnocentric universalism Bhikhu Parekh



Towards an ethic of global responsibility Mary Midgley



The Practices of Human Wrongs



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 right in a divided world Andrew Hurrell



Conclusion: learning beyond frontiers Ken Booth and Tim Dunne