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Universal human rights in theory and practice
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From the Book - 2nd ed.
1. The concept of human rights
2. The universal declaration model
3. Equal concern and respect
4. Markets, states, and "the west"
5. Non-western conceptinos of human rights
6. Cultural relativism and universal human rights
7. Human rights and "Asian values"
8. International human rights regimes
9. Human rights and foreign policy
10. The priority of national action
11. Democracy, development and human rights
12. Group rights and human rights
13. Nondiscrimination for all: the case of sexual minorities
14. Genocide and humanitarian intervention.
From the Book - 3rd ed.
Preface to the Third Edition
Introduction
Part I. Toward a Theory of Human Rights
1. The Concept of Human Rights
1. How Rights Work
2. Special Features of Human Rights
3. Human Nature and Human Rights
4. Human Rights and Related Practices
5. Analytic and Substantive Theories
6. The Failure of Foundational Appeals
7. Coping with Contentious Foundations
2. The Universal Declaration Model
1. The Universal Declaration
2. The Universal Declaration Model
3. Human Dignity and Human Rights
4. Individual Rights
5. Interdependence and Indivisibility
6. The State and International Human Rights
7. Respecting, Protecting, and Providing Human Rights
8. Realizing Human Rights and Human Dignity
3. Economic Rights and Group Rights
1. The Status of Economic and Social Rights
2. Group Rights and Human Rights
4. Equal Concern and Respect
1. Hegemony and Settled Norms
2. An Overlapping Consensus on International Human Rights
3. Moral Theory, Political Theory, and Human Rights
4. Equal Concern and Respect
5. Toward a Liberal Theory of Human Rights
6. Consensus: Overlapping but Bounded
Part II. The Universality and Relativity of Human Rights
5. A Brief History of Human Rights
1. Politics and Justice in the Premodern Non-Western World
2. The Premodern West
3. The Modern Invention of Human Rights
4. The American and French Revolutions
5. Approaching the Universal Declaration
6. Expanding the Subjects and Substance of Human Rights
6. The Relative Universality of Human Rights
1. "Universal" and "Relative"
2. The Universality of Internationally Recognized Human Rights
3. Three Levels of Universality and Particularity
4. Relative Universality: A Multidimensional Perspective
7. Universality in a World of Particularities
1. Culture and the Relativity of Human Rights
2. Advocating Universality in a World of Particularities
Part III. Human Rights and Human Dignity
8. Dignity: Particularistic and Universalistic Conceptions in the West
1. Dignitas: The Roman Roots of Dignity
2. Biblical Conceptions: Kavod and Imago Dei
3. Kant
4. Rights and Dignity in the West
5. Dignity and the Foundations of Human Rights
9. Humanity, Dignity, and Politics in Confucian China
1. Cosmology and Ethics
2. Confucians and the Early Empires
3. "Neo-Confucianism" and Song Imperial Rule
4. Twentieth-Century Encounters with "Rights"
5. Human Rights and Asian Values
10. Humans and Society in Hindu South Asia
1. Cosmology
2. Social Philosophy
3. Caste
4. Hindu Universalism
5. Opposition to Caste Discrimination
6. Hinduism and Human Rights in Contemporary India
Part IV. Human Rights and International Action
11. International Human Rights Regimes
1. The Global Human Rights Regime
2. Political Foundations of the Global Regime
3. Regional Human Rights Regimes
4. Single-Issue Human Rights Regimes
5. Assessing Multilateral Human Rights Mechanisms
6. The Evolution of Human Rights Regimes
12. Human Rights and Foreign Policy
1. Human Rights and the National Interest
2. International Human Rights and National Identity
3. Means and Mechanisms of Bilateral Action
4. The Aims of Human Rights Policy
5. Foreign Policy and Human Rights Policy
6. The Limits of International Action
Appendix: Arguments against International Human Rights Policies
Part V. Contemporary Issues
13. Human Rights, Democracy, and Development
1. The Contemporary Language of Legitimacy
2. Defining Democracy
3. Democracy and Human Rights
4. Defining Development
5. Development-Rights Tradeoffs
6. Development and Civil and Political Rights
7. Markets and Economic and Social Rights
8. The Liberal Democratic Welfare State
14. The West and Economic and Social Rights
1. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
2. Domestic Western Practice
3. The International Human Rights Covenants
4. Functional and Regional Organizations
5. Further Evidence of Western Support
6. Understanding the Sources of the Myth
7. Why Does It Matter?
15. Humanitarian Intervention against Genocide
1. Intervention and International Law
2. Humanitarian Intervention and International Law
3. The Moral Standing of the State
4. Politics, Partisanship, and International Order
5. Changing Conceptions of Security and Sovereignty
6. Justifying the Anti-genocide Norm
7. Changing Legal Practices
8. "Justifying" Humanitarian Intervention
9. Mixed Motives and Consistency
10. Politics and the Authority to Intervene
11. Judging the Kosovo Intervention
12. Darfur and the Future of Humanitarian Intervention
16. Nondiscrimination for All: The Case of Sexual Minorities
1. The Right to Nondiscrimination
2. Nondiscrimination and Political Struggle
3. Discrimination against Sexual Minorities
4. Nature, (Im)morality, and Public Morals
5. Strategies for Inclusion
6. Paths of Incremental Change
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Human Rights
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights
Cultural relativism
Electronic books
History
Human Rights
Law, Politics & Government
Nonfiction
Philosophy
Political
Political Freedom & Security
POLITICAL SCIENCE
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Human Rights
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights
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