Sovereignty, State Failure and Human Rights - Petty Despots and Exemplary Villains

Informationen zum Autor Neil A. Englehart is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Bowling Green State University, USA. Zusammenfassung This book argues that the effectiveness of the state apparatus is one of the crucial variables determining human rights conditions, and that state weakness and failure is responsible for much of the human rights abuses we see today. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Rights and the State 2. State Failure 3. A Global View 4. Afghanistan: Catastrophic Collapse 5. Burma/Myanmar: The Illusion of Strength 6. Bihar: The Privatization of Violence Conclusion

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• Authors: Neil Englehart, Neil (Bowling Green State University Englehart, Neil A. Englehart
• Assisted by: Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen (Editor of the series), Mark Gibney (Editor of the series), Bonny Ibhawoh (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9781138222267
• ISBN: 978-1-138-22226-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Routledge Studies in Human Rights; Routledge Studies in Human Rights
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / International, LAW / Public, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Politics & government, Politics and government, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law