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International Human Rightsstudies the ways in which states and other international actors have addressed human rights since the end of World War II. This unique textbook features substantial attention to the domestic politics of human rights, as well as an extensive emphasis on theory. The fourth edition is substantially rewritten and reorganized to enhance usability, and new material is added to bring the text up to date. Most notably, the sections covering multilateral, bilateral, and transnational action have been broken into seven short cha... MORE

List of Case Studies	p. xi
List of Problems	p. xi
Tables and Boxes	p. xi
Acronyms	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction: A Note to the Reader	p. xvii
Introduction and Theory	p. 1
Human Rights as an Issue in World Politics	p. 3
The Emergence of International Human Rights Norms	p. 4
From Cold War to Covena... MOREnts	p. 6
The 1970s: From Standard Setting to Monitoring	p. 8
The 1980s: Further Growth and Institutionalization	p. 10
The 1990s: Consolidating Progress and Acting Against Genocide	p. 11
International Human Rights After 9/11	p. 13
The Global Human Rights Regime	p. 14
Discussion Questions	p. 16
Suggested Readings	p. 17
Theories of Human Rights	p. 19
The Nature of Human Rights	p. 19
The Source or Justification of Human Rights	p. 21
Equal Concern and Respect	p. 22
Interdependent and Indivisible Human Rights	p. 23
The Duty-Bearers of Human Rights	p. 24
Human Rights and Related Practices	p. 25
Sovereignty, Anarchy, and International Society	p. 26
Three Models of International Human Rights	p. 27
Realism and Human Rights	p. 29
Democracy and Human Rights	p. 30
Discussion Questions	p. 32
Suggested Readings	p. 34
The Relative Universality of Human Rights	p. 37
Universality and Relativity	p. 37
International Legal Universality	p. 38
Overlapping Consensus Universality	p. 39
Functional Universality	p. 40
Anthropological or Historical Relativity	p. 42
Cultural Relativism	p. 44
Universal Rights, Not Identical Practices	p. 45
Universalism Without Imperialism	p. 46
The Relative Universality of Human Rights	p. 47
Hate Speech	p. 48
Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation	p. 50
Discussion Questions	p. 52
Suggested Readings	p. 54
The Domestic Politics of Human Rights: Dirty Wars in the Southern Cone	p. 57
Politics Before the Coups	p. 57
Torture and Disappearances	p. 59
The National Security Doctrine	p. 61
Human Rights NGOs	p. 63
The Collapse of Military Rule	p. 64
Nunca M�s: Settling Accounts with Torturers and the Past	p. 66
Postscript: Maintaining Civilian Rule	p. 69
Discussion Questions	p. 70
Suggested Readings	p. 72
Multilateral, Bilateral, and Transnational Action	p. 75
Global Multilateral Mechanisms	p. 77
The Human Rights Council	p. 77
The High Commissioner for Human Rights	p. 80
Treaty-Reporting Systems	p. 81
Additional Global Actors	p. 86
Case Study: The Antiapartheid Regime	p. 88
Discussion Questions	p. 92
Suggested Readings	p. 93
Regional Human Rights Regimes	p. 95
The European Regional Regime	p. 95
The Inter-American System	p. 96
The African Regional Regime	p. 98
The Arab World and Asia	p. 99
Case Study: Chile and the Inter-American Commission	p. 100
Discussion Questions	p. 102
Suggested Readings	p. 103
Assessing Multilateral Mechanisms	p. 105
The Evolution of International Human Rights Regimes	p. 105
Assessing Multilateral Human Rights Mechanisms	p. 109
Human Rights in American Foreign Policy: Cold War-Era Cases and Comparisons	p. 113
Anticommunism and American Exceptionalism	p. 114
Case Study: US Policy in Central America	p. 115
Case Study: US Policy in the Southern Cone	p. 124
Case Study: US Policy Toward South Africa	p. 125
Other Western Approaches to International Human Rights	p. 128
Explaining Differences in Human Rights Policies	p. 130
US Ratification of Human Rights Treaties	p. 133
Discussion Questions	p. 135
Suggested Readings	p. 136
Human Rights and Foreign Policy	p. 139
Human Rights and the National Interest	p. 139
Means and Mechanisms of Bilateral Action	p. 140
The Aims and Effects of Human Rights Policies	p. 143
Foreign Policy and Human Rights Policy	p. 145
Discussion Questions	p. 148
Suggested Readings	p. 148
Transnational Human Rights Advocacy	p. 149
Amnesty International	p. 150
Human Rights Watch	p. 151
Nonpartisan Action	p. 153
NGO Legitimacy	p. 155
Human Rights Obligations of MNCs	p. 156
Discussion Questions	p. 158
Suggested Readings	p. 158
Comparing International Actors and Evaluating International Action	p. 161
Comparing International Actors	p. 161
The Priority of National Action	p. 162
A System of International Accountability	p. 163
Post-Cold War Issues and Cases	p. 165
Responding to Human Rights Violations in China: Tiananmen and After	p. 167
China's Democracy Movement	p. 167
International Responses to Tiananmen	p. 171
Assessing the Impact of International Action	p. 176
Constructive Engagement Revisited	p. 178
Human Rights and Great Power China	p. 180
Human Rights and "Asian Values"	p. 182
Discussion Questions	p. 185
Suggested Readings	p. 187
Humanitarian Intervention Against Genocide	p. 191
Case Study: Bosnia	p. 191
Case Study: Rwanda	p. 198
Case Study: Kosovo	p. 199
The Authority to Intervene	p. 201
Case Study: East Timor	p. 203
A Right to Humanitarian Intervention Against Genocide	p. 205
Case Study: Sudan	p. 206
Justifying Humanitarian Intervention	p. 209
Types of Justifiability	p. 210
A New Conception of Security	p. 212
Discussion Questions	p. 213
Suggested Readings	p. 214
Globalization, the State, and Human Rights	p. 219
Globalization	p. 219
States and Human Rights	p. 221
Markets and Welfare States	p. 222
Market Democracy and American Foreign Policy	p. 225
An Alliance of States and Human Rights Advocates?	p. 228
West, South, and Market Redistributions	p. 230
Discussion Questions	p. 232
Suggested Readings	p. 232
(Anti)Terrorism and Human Rights
Human Rights in Post-Cold War American Foreign Policy	p. 235
The Retreat of Human Rights	p. 237
Human Rights, Security, and Foreign Policy	p. 239
The Axis of Evil	p. 241
The War Against Iraq	p. 242
The Waning of the War?	p. 243
The Absolute Prohibition of Torture	p. 244
(Anti)Terrorism and Civil Liberties	p. 246
Discussion Questions	p. 247
Suggested Readings	p. 248
Notes	p. 251
Appendix: Universal Declaration of Human Rights	p. 261
Glossary	p. 265
Index	p. 271
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Jack Donnelly is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of International Relations at the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver. He has written two other books and over fifty articles and book chapters, which have been widely reprinted and translated into eight languages, on the theory and Practice of internationally recognized human rights.

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