Human Rights Paradox - Universality and Its Discontents

Informationen zum Autor Steve J. Stern is the Alberto Flores Galindo and Hilldale Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received the Bolton-Johnson Prize from the Conference in Latin American History in 2007 and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012. Scott Straus is a professor of political science and international studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of The Order of Genocide and a coeditor of Remaking Rwanda . Klappentext By identifying and embracing the paradox that human rights are at once a transcendent value belonging to all and a reality forged by particular people rooted in specific places, The Human Rights Paradox advances a new way to understand the history, contemporary politics, advocacy, and future prospects of human rights. Zusammenfassung By identifying and embracing the paradox that human rights are at once a transcendent value belonging to all and a reality forged by particular people rooted in specific places! The Human Rights Paradox advances a new way to understand the history! contemporary politics! advocacy! and future prospects of human rights.

Product details

• Authors: Steve J. (EDT)/ Straus Stern, Steven J. Straus Stern
• Assisted by: Steve J. Stern (Editor), Steven J. Stern (Editor), Scott Straus (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2014
• EAN: 9780299299743
• ISBN: 978-0-299-29974-3
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Critical Human Rights; Critical Human Rights
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education