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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction: thinking about human rights | |
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| Realities, Concepts, The social sciences, Beyond human rights law, Conclusion | |
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| Origins: the rise and fall of natural rights | |
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| Why history? On rights and tyrants, Justice and rights, Natural rights, The age of revolutions, The decline of natural rights | |
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| After 1945: the new age of rights | |
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| The UN and the human rights revival, The Universal Declaration, From theory to practice: (a)The Cold War, (b)After the Cold War, Conclusion | |
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| Theories of human rights | |
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| Why theory? Human rights theory: (a) Rights (b) Other values (c) Human nature (d) Conflicts of rights (e) Democracy (f) Conclusion | |
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| The role of the social sciences | |
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| Introduction: human rights and social science, The dominance of law, Political science, Sociology, Psychology, Anthropology, International relations, Conclusion | |
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| Universality, diversity and difference: culture and human rights | |
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| The problem of cultural imperialism, Cultural relativism, Minority rights, Indigenous peoples, The right to self-determination, The rights of women | |
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| Idealism, realism and repression: the politics of human rights | |
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| The real politics of human rights, The boomerang theory, The national politics of human rights, The statistics of human rights, NGOs in world politics | |
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| Development and Globalization: economics and human rights | |
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| Development versus human rights? The right to development, Globalization, International financial institutions, Economic and social rights | |
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| 9 Conclusion: human rights in the twenty-first century | |
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| Learning from history, Objections to human rights, Problems of intervention, Concluding remarks | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |