| Description |
xvi, 216 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Dilemmas in world politics |
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Dilemmas in world politics.
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| Contents |
Introduction: A Note to the Reader -- 1. Human Rights as an Issue in World Politics. The Emergence of International Human Rights Norms. From Cold War to Covenants. The 1970s: From Standard Setting to Monitoring. The 1980s: Further Growth and Institutionalization. The 1990s: Continuity and Change in the Post-Cold War Era -- 2. Theories of Human Rights. The Nature of Human Rights. The Source or Justification of Human Rights. Lists of Human Rights. Human Rights and the Society of States. Realism and Human Rights. Cultural Relativism and Universal Human Rights -- 3. The Domestic Politics of Human Rights: The Case of the Southern Cone. Politics Before the Coups. Torture and Disappearances. The National Security Doctrine. Human Rights NGOs. The Collapse of Military Rule. Nunca Mas: Settling Accounts with Torturers and the Past -- 4. The Multilateral Politics of Human Rights. The United Nations Commission on Human Rights. Treaty-Reporting Systems. Workers' Rights and Apartheid. Regional Human Rights Regimes. Assessing Multilateral Human Rights Mechanisms -- 5. Human Rights and Foreign Policy. Central Issues in U.S. International Human Rights Policy. Central America and U.S. Human Rights Policy. The United States and the Southern Cone. U.S. Policy Toward South Africa. Other Western Approaches to International Human Rights. Explaining Differences in International Human Rights Policies -- 6. Responding to Tiananmen. China's Democracy Movement. International Responses to Tiananmen. Assessing the Impact of International Action. Constructive Engagement Revisited. Postscript: Asian Values -- 7. War and Genocide in the Former Yugoslavia. Background to the Conflict. War and Genocide. The International Response. New Patterns and Precedents. Nationalism and Human Rights -- 8. International Human Rights in a Post-Cold War World. Ideology and Intervention. Sovereignty, Power, and Interdependence. Democracy and Human Rights. Markets and Human Rights. International Human Rights Policy in a New World Order. Appendix. Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
| Summary |
Dilemmas in World Politics offers teachers and students of international relations a series of quality books on critical issues, trends, and regions in international politics. Each text examines a "real world" dilemma and is structured to cover the historical, theoretical, practical, and projected dimensions of its subject |
| Analysis |
China |
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Genocide |
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Human rights |
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Human rights violations |
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International relations |
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Nationalism |
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Overseas item |
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Treaties and conventions |
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Yugoslavia |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-200) and index |
| Subject |
Human rights.
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| LC no. |
98119539 |
| ISBN |
0813399696 (paperback) |
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