Achieving human rights [

"Richard Falk once again captures our attention with a nuanced analysis of what we need to do - at the personal level as well as state actions - to refocus our pursuit of human rights in a post-9/11 world. From democratic global governance to the costs of the Iraq War, the preeminent role of th...

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Main Author: Falk, Richard A. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge , c2009
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505 0 |a 1. Toward a necessary utopianism: democratic global governance -- 2. The power of rights and the rights of power: what future for human rights? --3. Orientalism and international law -- 4. Toward global democracy -- 5. Citizenship and globalization --The Holocaust and the emergence of international human rights -- 6. The Pinochet moment: whither universal jurisdiction? -- 7. Genocide at the world court: the case against Serbia -- 8. A descending spiral -- 9. Encroaching on the rule of law: counter-terrorist justifications -- 10. Humanitarian intervention -- 11. Crimes, lies, and law: human rights in adversity -12. Humanity in question --The ideal of the citizen pilgrim 
520 |a "Richard Falk once again captures our attention with a nuanced analysis of what we need to do - at the personal level as well as state actions - to refocus our pursuit of human rights in a post-9/11 world. From democratic global governance to the costs of the Iraq War, the preeminent role of the United States in the world order to the role of individual citizens of a globalized world, Falk stresses the moral urgency of achieving human rights. In elegant simplicity, this book places the priority of such an ethos in the personal decisions we make in our human interactions, not just the activities of government institutions and nongovernmental organizations. Falk masterly weaves together such topics as the Iraq War, U.S. human rights practices and abuses, humanitarian intervention, the rule of law, responses to terrorism, genocide, the Pinochet trial, information technology, and many other topics to create a moral tapestry of world order with human rights at the center."--Jacket. 
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