Human Rights in Global PoliticsTimothy Dunne, Nicholas J. Wheeler Cambridge University Press, 28 мар. 1999 г. - Всего страниц: 337 There 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. |
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Three tyrannies | 31 |
The social construction of international human rights | 71 |
Universal human rights a critique | 103 |
Nonethnocentric universalism | 128 |
Towards an ethic of global responsibility | 160 |
The practices of human wrongs | 175 |
The challenge of genocide and genocidal politics in an era of globalisation | 177 |
Transnational civil society | 195 |
Global voices civil society and the media in global crises | 214 |
Refugees a global human rights and security crisis | 233 |
The silencing of women | 259 |
Power principles and prudence protecting human rights in a deeply divided world | 277 |
Learning beyond frontiers | 303 |
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