Rescuing Human Rights - A Radically Moderate Approach

Focuses on understanding human rights as they really are and their proper role in international affairs.

List of contents

Preface; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction: assumptions and principles; 2. Crime and (occasional) punishment; 3. The importance of government, for better or worse; 4. Human rights and ... whatever; 5. Undermining old rights with new ones: you can't always get what you want; 6. Women, sex, and gender; 7. The flexibility of human rights norms: universality is not uniformity; 8. Human rights hawks; 9. The indispensable state? The United States and human rights; 10. The way forward: less is more; Index.

About the author

Hurst Hannum is Professor of International Law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Massachusetts. He has authored numerous books and articles on human rights and has served as counsel and advocate before European, inter-American, and UN human rights institutions.

Summary

This is a multi-disciplinary book with a primary focus on international law and human rights. It analyzes human rights successes and failures, and argues that the role of human rights in foreign affairs continues to be crucial in the twenty-first century.

Product details

• Authors: Hurst Hannum, Hurst (Tufts University Hannum, Hannum Hurst
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781108417488
• ISBN: 978-1-108-41748-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Human rights & civil liberties law, LAW / International, LAW / Public, LAW / Civil Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, International Law, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law