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Rethinking Human Rights
Critical Approaches to International Politics
ISBN/EAN: 9780333977163
Umbreit-Nr.: 9044786
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: xiii, 246 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 26.11.2002
Auflage: 1/2002
- Zusatztext
- Rethinking Human Rights brings together a team of authors from fields as diverse as political theory, peace studies, international law and media studies - concerned with a new international agenda of human rights promotion. The collection presents an original and tightly argued critique of current trends and deals with a range of questions concerning the implication of human rights approaches for humanitarian aid, state sovereignty, international law, democracy and political autonomy.
- Kurztext
- Challenges the core claims of the human rights thesisDeals with a range of questions concerning the implications of human rights approaches for humanitarian aid, state sovereignty, legal equality and democracyFocuses on up-to-date research in a number of areas including the World Bank's development policy and the children's rights regime
- Autorenportrait
- BARRIE COLLINS Researcher FIONA FOX formerly Head of Media Relations, Catholic Food Agency CHRIS GILLIGAN Lecturer in Sociology, University of Ulster, Ireland PHILIP HAMMOND Senior Lecturer in Media, South Bank University, London EDWARD S. HERMAN Professor Emeritus of Finance, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania JON HOLBROOK Barrister JOHN LAUGHLAND European Director of the European Foundation JOHN PENDER Independent Writer and Researcher DAVID PETERSON Independent Journalist and Researcher VANESSA PUPAVAC Lecturer, School of Politics, University of Nottingham