Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-240) and index.
Contents:
Part One. History and Theory. 1. Human Rights in Global Politics: Historical Perspective. The Emergence of International Human Rights Norms ; The Universal Declaration ; The Covenants ; The 1970s: From Standard Setting to Monitoring ; The 1980s: Further Growth and Institutionalization ; The 1990s: Consolidating Progress and Acting Against Genocide ; Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century ; The Global Human Rights Regime -- 2. Theories of Human Rights. Rights in General ; Human Rights in Particular ; The Source or Justification of Human Rights ; Equal Concern and Respect ; The Unity of Human Rights ; Duties and Duty-Bearers of Human Rights ; Human Rights and Related Practices ; Sovereignty and International Society ; Three Models of International Human Rights ; The Realist Challenge to Human Rights ; Problem 1: Democracy and Human Rights -- 3. The Relative Universality of Human Rights. Universality and Relativity ; International Legal Universality ; Overlapping Consensus Universality ; Functional Universality ; Anthropological or Historical Relativity ; Cultural Relativism ; Universal Rights, Not Identical Practices ; Universalism Without Imperialism ; The Relative Universality of Human Rights ; Problem 2: Hate Speech ; Problem 3: Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation -- 4. The Unity of Human Rights. Interdependent and Interrelated Rights ; The Indivisibility of Human Rights ; Politics, History, Theory, and Consensus ; Three Generations of Human Rights? ; Problem 4: Human Rights: Hierarchical or Indivisible? -- Part Two. Multilateral, Bilateral, and Transnational Action. 5. Global Multilateral Mechanisms. The Human Rights Council ; The Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights ; Treaty-Reporting Systems ; Additional Global Actors ; Mainstreaming Human Rights Throughout the U.N. System ; Case Study: The Special Procedures -- 6. Regional Human Rights Regimes. The European Regional Regime ; The Inter-American System ; The African Regional Regime ; Asia ; The Arab World ; Assessing Regional Human Rights Regimes ; Case Study: Chile and the Inter-American Commission -- 7. Human Rights and Foreign Policy. Human Rights and the National Interest ; Means and Mechanisms of Bilateral Action ; The Aims and Effects of Human Rights Policies ; Drawbacks, Problems, and Criticisms ; Political Rhetoric Versus Political Will -- 8. Human Rights in American Foreign Policy. Historical Overview ; Human Rights and American Exceptionalism ; Case Study: U.S. Policy in Central America ; Case Study: U.S. Policy Toward South Africa ; Case Study: American Policy Toward Myanmar (Burma) ; Case Study: Israeli Settlements in West Bank Palestine ; Other Western Approaches to International Human Rights ; Explaining Differences in Human Rights Policies ; Problem 5: U.S. Ratification of Human Rights Treaties -- 9. Transnational Human Rights Advocacy. Case Study: Amnesty International ; Case Study: Human Rights Watch ; Nonpartisan Action ; Other Advocacy Actions: Celebrity and Consumer Campaigns ; NGO Legitimacy ; Problem 6: Human Rights Obligations of Multinational Corporations Part Three. Contemporary Issues. 10. Humanitarian Intervention. Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity ; Case Study: Bosnia ; Case Study: Rwanda ; Case Study: Kosovo ; The Authority to Intervene ; Case Study: East Timor ; The Right to Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect ; Case Study: Libya ; Case Study: Sudan ; Justifying Humanitarian Intervention ; Problem 7: The War in Syria -- 11. Globalization, the State, and Human Rights. Globalization ; States and Human Rights ; Markets and Liberal Democratic Welfare States ; Market Democracy and American Foreign Policy ; An Alliance of States and Human Rights Advocates? ; Problem 8: The Global North and South and Market Redistributions -- 12. (Anti)Terrorism and Human Rights. International Human Rights Law and the Dilemmas of Counterterrorism ; The War on Terror and the Retreat of Human Rights ; Human Rights, Security, and Foreign Policy ; The Axis of Evil ; The War Against Iraq ; Recent Developments: Progress or Retreat? ; Problem 9: The Absolute Prohibition of Torture ; Problem 10: (Anti)Terrorism and Civil Liberties.
Summary:
"International Human Rights studies the ways in which states and other international actors have addressed human rights since the end of World War II. This unique textbook features substantial attention to the domestic politics of human rights, as well as an extensive emphasis on theory. The thoroughly updated fifth edition brings the theories and legal issues related to human rights into sharper focus with a streamlined eleven-chapter organization, separate treatments of rights-based theories and international relations theories, and updated case studies. International Human Rights allows readers to understand how and why human rights are violated, what international action can do to address these violations, and why human rights remain such a small part of international relations"-- Provided by publisher.
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