Human Rights in Global Politics

by Edited by Tim Dunne , Nicholas J. Wheeler

• ISBN13: 9780521641388
• ISBN10: 0521641381
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-03-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

There is a stark contradiction between the theory of universal human rights and the everyday practice of human wrongs. This timely volume brings together leading scholars to evaluate this paradox. The contributors ask 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. The book evaluates the philosophical basis of human rights, and reflects on the structures that affect the development of a global human rights culture.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii	(2)
Preface and acknowledgements	ix
Introduction: human rights and the fifty years' crisis	1	(28)
TIM DUNNE
NICHOLAS J. WHEELER
I Theories of human rights	29	(146)
1 Three tyrannies	31	(40)
KEN BOOTH
2 The social construction of international human rights	71	(32)
JACK DONNELLY
3 Universal human rights: a critique	103	(25)
CHRIS BROWN
4 Non-ethnocentric universalism	128	(32)
BHIKHU PAREKH
5 Towards an ethic of global responsibility	160	(15)
MARY MIDGLEY
II The practices of human wrongs	175	(154)
6 The challenge of genocide and genocidal politics in an era of globalisation	177	(18)
RICHARD FALK
7 Transnational civil society	195	(19)
MARY KALDOR
8 Global voices: civil society and the media in global crises	214	(19)
MARTIN SHAW
9 Refugees: a global human rights and security crisis	233	(26)
GIL LOESCHER
10 The silencing of women	259	(18)
GEORGINA ASHWORTH
11 Power, principles and prudence: protecting human rights in a deeply divided world	277	(26)
ANDREW HURRELL
12 Learning beyond frontiers	303	(26)
KEN BOOTH
TIM DUNNE
Index	329