Human Rights in Global Politics
Human Rights in Global Politics
Nicholas J. Wheeler, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
$42.00
USDThere is a stark contradiction between the theory of universal human rights and the everyday practice of human wrongs. 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 which distracts us from the task of developing rights in the context of particular ethical communities. In the first part of the book chapters by Ken Booth, Jack Donnelly, Chris Brown, Bhikhu Parekh and Mary Midgley explore the philosophical basis of claims to universal human rights. In the second part, Richard Falk, Mary Kaldor, Martin Shaw, Gil Loescher, Georgina Ashworth and Andrew Hurrell reflect on the role of the media, global civil society, states, migration, non-governmental organisations, capitalism, and schools and universities in developing a global human rights culture.
- Study of a hot topic - human rights - by leading scholars
- Covers both the philosophical and practical aspects of the subject, and looks at the gap between states' rhetoric and the reality of their actions
- Will be of interest to IR scholars, political theorists and philosophers, and lawyers and others working in the human rights field
Reviews & endorsements
"Human Rights in Global Politics...distinguishes itself ...by its solid theoretical and practical approach to analyzing human rights at the end of the century." William Felice, Recent Books on Ethics and International Affairs
Product details
March 1999Paperback
9780521646437
352 pages
229 × 153 × 21 mm
0.58kg
1 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- Introduction: human rights and the fifty years' crisis Tim Dunne and Nicholas J. Wheeler
- Part I. Theories of Human Rights:
- 1. Three tyrannies of human rights Ken Booth
- 2. The social construction of international human rights Jack Donnelly
- 3. Universal human rights: a critique Chris Brown
- 4. Non-ethnocentric universalism Bhikhu Parekh
- 5. Towards an ethic of global responsibility Mary Midgley
- Part II. The Practices of Human Wrongs:
- 6. The challenge of genocide and genocidal politics in an era of globalisation Richard Falk
- 7. Transnational civil society Mary Kaldor
- 8. Global voices: civil society and the media in global crises Martin Shaw
- 9. Refugees: a global human rights and security crisis Gil Loescher
- 10. The silencing of women Georgina Ashworth
- 11. Power, principles and prudence: protecting human right in a divided world Andrew Hurrell
- 12. Conclusion: learning beyond frontiers Ken Booth and Tim Dunne.
