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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New York :
Routledge ,
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| Online Access: | NetLibrary |
Table of Contents:
- 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