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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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Suggested Readings | |
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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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Suggested Readings | |
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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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Suggested Readings | |
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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 | |