Human Rights and Global Diversity

Informationen zum Autor Simon Caney, Peter Jones Klappentext This examination of global society focuses on its conflict with local societies and questions whether the human race should be treated as belonging to a single global community. It considers the universality of human rights and its conflict with group claims to self-determination. Zusammenfassung This collection of essays explores the problems involved in combining norms that apply to all humanity with sensitivity to, and respect for, people's cultural differences. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction, Peter Jones, Simon Caney; Chapter 2 Cosmopolitanism, World Citizenship and Global Civil Society, Chris Brown; Chapter 3 Human Rights and Diverse Cultures: Continuity or Discontinuity?, Peter Jones; Chapter 4 Human Rights, Compatibility and Diverse Cultures, Simon Caney; Chapter 5 The Pendulum Theory of Individual, Communal and Minority Rights, Tom Hadden; Chapter 6 The Question of Self-Determination and its Implications for Normative International Theory, Kimberly Hutchings; Chapter 7 Derrida and the Heidegger Controversy: Global Friendship Against Racism, Mark Bevir; Chapter 8 Humanitarian Vigilantes or Legal Entrepreneurs: Enforcing Human Rights in International Society, Nicholas J. Wheeler;

Product details

• Authors: Simon Jones Caney
• Assisted by: Simon Caney (Editor), Caney Simon (Editor), Peter Jones (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.11.2000
• EAN: 9780714681610
• ISBN: 978-0-7146-8161-0
• No. of pages: 180
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Globalization, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, Human rights, civil rights