World Politics, Human Rights, and International Law examines the relationship between these concepts based upon the author's professional experiences dealing with real world problems. It demonstrates the power of international law and human rights to make a positive difference for international peace and justice.
Human Rights in World Politics is an introduction to the deeply held popular and intellectual convictions concerning human rights today, focusing on the globalization of human rights issues and struggles....
According to Elizabeth Schneider, civil rights activists “asserted rights not simply to advance [a] legal argument or to win a case, but to express the politics, vision, and demands of a social movement, and to assist in the political ...
Part 1. Theory.
Jean Kirkpatrick , The Reagan Phenomenon and Other Speeches on Foreign Policy ( Washington : American Enterprise Institute , 1983 ) . 25. " Nomination of Ernest W. Lefever , " Hearings , Senate Committee on Foreign Relations , 97th Cong ...
In this path-breaking volume, a group of leading international relations scholars and legal theorists advance a new constructivist perspective on the politics of international law.
"---UN21 Newsletter, ASIL "This is a superb treatment of the subject matter.
The book also includes a new chapter on the unity (indivisibility) of human rights.
Acclaimed scholar Kathryn Sikkink examines the important and controversial new trend of holding political leaders criminally accountable for human rights violations.
Louis Henkin, Gerald L. Neuman, Diane F. Orentlicher, and David W. Leebron (eds), Human Rights (New York: ... Patricia M. Byrne, "Statement by Ambassador Patricia M. Byrne to the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly,” Nov.
Two themes - the tension between values and interests, and the role of the state as both a protector of human rights and a perpetrator of human rights violations - are reflected throughout the text.