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Preface to the Third Edition | |
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Introduction | |
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Toward a Theory of Human Rights | |
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The Concept of Human Rights | |
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How Rights Work | |
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Special Features of Human Rights | |
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Human Nature and Human Rights | |
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Human Rights and Related Practices | |
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Analytic and Substantive Theories | |
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The Failure of Foundational Appeals | |
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Coping with Contentious Foundations | |
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The Universal Declaration Model | |
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The Universal Declaration | |
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The Universal Declaration Model | |
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Human Dignity and Human Rights | |
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Individual Rights | |
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Interdependence and Indivisibility | |
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The State and International Human Rights | |
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Respecting, Protecting, and Providing Human Rights | |
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Realizing Human Rights and Human Dignity | |
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Economic Rights and Group Rights | |
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The Status of Economic and Social Rights | |
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Group Rights and Human Rights | |
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Equal Concern and Respect | |
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Hegemony and Settled Norms | |
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An Overlapping Consensus on International Human Rights | |
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Moral Theory, Political Theory, and Human Rights | |
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Equal Concern and Respect | |
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Toward a Liberal Theory of Human Rights | |
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Consensus: Overlapping but Bounded | |
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The Universality and Relativity of Human Rights | |
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A Brief History of Human Rights | |
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Politics and Justice in the Premodern Non-Western World | |
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The Premodern West | |
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The Modern Invention of Human Rights | |
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The American and French Revolutions | |
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Approaching the Universal Declaration | |
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Expanding the Subjects and Substance of Human Rights | |
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The Relative Universality of Human Rights | |
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"Universal" and "Relative" | |
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The Universality of Internationally Recognized Human Rights | |
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Three Levels of Universality and Particularity | |
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Relative Universality: A Multidimensional Perspective | |
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Universality in a World of Particularities | |
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Culture and the Relativity of Human Rights | |
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Advocating Universality in a World of Particularities | |
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Human Rights and Human Dignity | |
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Dignity: Particularistic and Universalistic Conceptions in the West | |
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Dignitas: The Roman Roots of Dignity | |
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Biblical Conceptions: Kavod and Imago Dei | |
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Kant | |
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Rights and Dignity in the West | |
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Dignity and the Foundations of Human Rights | |
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Humanity, Dignity, and Politics in Confucian China | |
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Cosmology and Ethics | |
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Confucians and the Early Empires | |
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"Neo-Confucianism" and Song Imperial Rule | |
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Twentieth-Century Encounters with "Rights" | |
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Human Rights and Asian Values | |
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Humans and Society in Hindu South Asia | |
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Cosmology | |
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Social Philosophy | |
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Caste | |
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Hindu Universalism | |
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Opposition to Caste Discrimination | |
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Hinduism and Human Rights in Contemporary India | |
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Human Rights and International Action | |
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International Human Rights Regimes | |
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The Global Human Rights Regime | |
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Political Foundations of the Global Regime | |
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Regional Human Rights Regimes | |
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Single-Issue Human Rights Regimes | |
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Assessing Multilateral Human Rights Mechanisms | |
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The Evolution of Human Rights Regimes | |
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Human Rights and Foreign Policy | |
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Human Rights and the National Interest | |
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International Human Rights and National Identity | |
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Means and Mechanisms of Bilateral Action | |
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The Aims of Human Rights Policy | |
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Foreign Policy and Human Rights Policy | |
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The Limits of International Action | |
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Appendix: Arguments against International Human Rights Policies | |
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Contemporary Issues | |
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Human Rights, Democracy, and Development | |
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The Contemporary Language of Legitimacy | |
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Defining Democracy | |
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Democracy and Human Rights | |
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Defining Development | |
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Development-Rights Tradeoffs | |
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Development and Civil and Political Rights | |
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Markets and Economic and Social Rights | |
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The Liberal Democratic Welfare State | |
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The West and Economic and Social Rights | |
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights | |
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Domestic Western Practice | |
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The International Human Rights Covenants | |
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Functional and Regional Organizations | |
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Further Evidence of Western Support | |
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Understanding the Sources of the Myth | |
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Why Does It Matter? | |
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Humanitarian Intervention against Genocide | |
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Intervention and International Law | |
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Humanitarian Intervention and International Law | |
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The Moral Standing of the State | |
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Politics, Partisanship, and International Order | |
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Changing Conceptions of Security and Sovereignty | |
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Justifying the Anti-genocide Norm | |
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Changing Legal Practices | |
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"Justifying" Humanitarian Intervention | |
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Mixed Motives and Consistency | |
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Politics and the Authority to Intervene | |
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Judging the Kosovo Intervention | |
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Darfur and the Future of Humanitarian Intervention | |
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Nondiscrimination for All: The Case of Sexual Minorities | |
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The Right to Nondiscrimination | |
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Nondiscrimination and Political Struggle | |
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Discrimination against Sexual Minorities | |
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Nature, (Im)morality, and Public Morals | |
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Strategies for Inclusion | |
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Paths of Incremental Change | |
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References | |
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Index | |