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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... role of the media , global civil society , states , migration , non - governmental organisations , capitalism , and schools and universities in developing a global human rights culture . TIM DUNNE is a Lecturer in the Department of ...
... role of the media , global civil society , states , migration , non - governmental organisations , capitalism , and schools and universities in developing a global human rights culture . TIM DUNNE is a Lecturer in the Department of ...
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... role to play in monitor- ing state behaviour for the reason that there is a disjuncture between the declaratory commitments of governments to protect and promote human rights and their compliance with these standards . For example ...
... role to play in monitor- ing state behaviour for the reason that there is a disjuncture between the declaratory commitments of governments to protect and promote human rights and their compliance with these standards . For example ...
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... role in discerning the content of natural rights . Claims to know what is right are founded on ' those basic pre- cepts of common morality [ which ] are accessible to human reason , they can be known by anyone capable of thought and ...
... role in discerning the content of natural rights . Claims to know what is right are founded on ' those basic pre- cepts of common morality [ which ] are accessible to human reason , they can be known by anyone capable of thought and ...
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... role for global civil society in promoting values of human rights , non - violence and demo- cracy as a counter to the hegemonic ideologies of realism and laissez- faire economics . The role of transnational civil society in holding ...
... role for global civil society in promoting values of human rights , non - violence and demo- cracy as a counter to the hegemonic ideologies of realism and laissez- faire economics . The role of transnational civil society in holding ...
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... crisis . However , Loescher is not optimistic about UNHCR succeeding in this crisis prevention role . It lacks the resources , logistics , training and expertise necessary , and requires the support of 20 Tim Dunne and Nicholas J. Wheeler.
... crisis . However , Loescher is not optimistic about UNHCR succeeding in this crisis prevention role . It lacks the resources , logistics , training and expertise necessary , and requires the support of 20 Tim Dunne and Nicholas J. Wheeler.
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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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