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| jack donnelly international human rights: International Human Rights Jack Donnelly, 2012-07-22 International Human Rights examines 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 theory, history, international and regional institutions, and the role of transnational actors in the protection and promotion of human rights. Its purpose is to explore the difficult and contentious politics of human rights, and how those political dimensions have been addressed at the national, regional, and especially international levels. The fifth edition is substantially updated, rewritten, and revised throughout, including updates on multilateral institutions (especially the UN's Universal Periodic Review process and the Human Rights Council's Special Procedures mechanisms), regional systems, human rights in foreign policy (including a specific chapter on U.S. foreign policy), humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect, and (anti)terrorism and human rights. The book also includes a new chapter on the unity (indivisibility) of human rights. Chapters include discussion questions, case studies for in-depth examination of topics (including new case studies on the U.N. Special Procedures, Myanmar, and Israeli settlements in West-Bank Palestine), and ten problems (including new entries on the war in Syria and hierarchies between human rights) tailored to promote classroom discussion. |
| jack donnelly international human rights: Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice Jack Donnelly, 2003 (unseen), $12.95. Donnelly explicates and defends an account of human rights as universal rights. Considering the competing claims of the universality, particularity, and relativity of human rights, he argues that the historical contingency and particularity of human rights is completely compatible with a conception of human rights as universal moral rights, and thus does not require the acceptance of claims of cultural relativism. The book moves between theoretical argument and historical practice. Rigorous and tightly-reasoned, material and perspectives from many disciplines are incorporated. Paper edition Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
| jack donnelly international human rights: The Concept of Human Rights Jack Donnelly, 2019-11-19 First published in 1985. In this study, Donnelly distinguishes between having a right and being right and elaborates the distinction with great subtlety to show that rights have to be understood as action and not as a possession. This is done with such clarity and good sense that he is able to cast light on all aspects of the often confusing discussions of the natures and usages of right. He illuminates an astonishing range of issues, from the limitations of Thomist and utilitarian conceptions of right to the confusions of many present-day defenders of rights, both in the West and the Third World. As importantly, Donnelly is centrally concerned with the human aspect of human rights. He is thus able to rest his discussion of rights on a plausible philosophical anthropology as well as an appreciation of an historical dimension to human rights, and, at the end of his book, is able to open the door towards potential new developments in the discussion of human rights. Down the path he points us lies a reconciliation of the notion of individual rights with that of political community. This title will be of great interest to students of politics and philosophy. |
| jack donnelly international human rights: International Human Rights Jack Donnelly, Daniel Whelan, 2018-04-17 International Human Rights examines 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 theory, history, international and regional institutions, and the role of transnational actors in the protection and promotion of human rights. Its purpose is to explore the difficult and contentious politics of human rights, and how those political dimensions have been addressed at the national, regional, and especially international levels. The fifth edition is substantially revised throughout, including updates on multilateral institutions, particularly the UN's Universal Periodic Review process; regional systems; human rights in foreign policy (including a chapter on U.S. policy); humanitarian intervention; globalization; and (anti)terrorism and human rights. The book also includes a new chapter on the unity of human rights, and new case studies exploring the UN Human Rights Council’s Special Procedures mechanisms, Myanmar, and Israeli settlements in West-Bank Palestine. Chapters include discussion questions, case studies for in-depth examination of topics, and ten problems tailored to promote classroom discussion on topics such as the war in Syria, hierarchies between human rights, and much more. |
| jack donnelly international human rights: International Human Rights Jack Donnelly, Daniel J. Whelan, 2020-06-01 Fully updated, the sixth edition of International Human Rights examines 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 theory, history, international and regional institutions, and the role of transnational actors in the protection and promotion of human rights. Its purpose is to explore the difficult and contentious politics of human rights, and how those political dimensions have been addressed at the national, regional, and especially international levels. Key features include: substantially revised throughout, including new material on LGBTQ rights in Africa, Indigenous peoples’ rights in Guatemala, the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar, and a new chapter on human rights and development; in-text features such as discussion questions, suggested readings, case studies, and problems to promote classroom discussion and in-depth examination of topics; concise yet clearly organised and comprehensive coverage of the topic. International Human Rights is essential reading for courses and modules in human rights, politics and international relations, law, criminal justice, sociology, social work, public administration, and international development. |
| jack donnelly international human rights: Human Rights in Global Politics Timothy Dunne, Nicholas J. Wheeler, 1999-03-28 There is a stark contradiction between the theory of universal human rights and the everyday practice of human wrongs. This timely volume investigates whether human rights abuses are a result of the failure of governments to live up to a universal human rights standard, or whether the search for moral universals is a fundamentally flawed enterprise which distracts us from the task of developing rights in the context of particular ethical communities. In the first part of the book chapters by Ken Booth, Jack Donnelly, Chris Brown, Bhikhu Parekh and Mary Midgley explore the philosophical basis of claims to universal human rights. In the second part, Richard Falk, Mary Kaldor, Martin Shaw, Gil Loescher, Georgina Ashworth and Andrew Hurrell reflect on the role of the media, global civil society, states, migration, non-governmental organisations, capitalism, and schools and universities in developing a global human rights culture. |
| jack donnelly international human rights: Realism and International Relations Jack Donnelly, 2000-06 1. The realist tradition |
| jack donnelly international human rights: Globalization and Human Rights Alison Brysk, 2002-10-15 These essays include theoretical analyses by Richard Falk, Jack Donnelly and James Rosenau. Chapters on sex tourism, international markets and communications technology bring fresh perspectives to emerging issues. The authors investigate places such as the Dominican Republic, Nigeria and the Philippines. |
| jack donnelly international human rights: The International Human Rights Movement Aryeh Neier, 2020-04-07 A fascinating history of the international human rights movement as seen by one of its founders During the past several decades, the international human rights movement has had a crucial hand in struggles against totalitarian regimes and crimes against humanity. Today, it grapples with the war against terror and subsequent abuses of government power. In The International Human Rights Movement, Aryeh Neier—a leading figure and a founder of the contemporary movement—offers a comprehensive, authoritative account of this global force, from its beginnings in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to its essential place in world affairs today. Neier combines analysis with personal experience, and gives an insider’s perspective on the movement’s goals, the disputes about its mission, its rise to international importance, and the challenges to come. This updated edition includes a new preface by the author. |
| jack donnelly international human rights: Human Rights in International Relations David P. Forsythe, 2006-05-01 This new edition of David Forsythe's successful textbook provides an authoritative overview of the place of human rights in international politics in an age of terrorism. The book focuses on four central themes: the resilience of human rights norms, the importance of 'soft' law, the key role of non-governmental organizations, and the changing nature of state sovereignty. Human rights standards are examined according to global, regional, and national levels of analysis with a separate chapter dedicated to transnational corporations. This second edition has been updated to reflect recent events, notably the creation of the ICC and events in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, and new sections have been added on subjects such as the correlation between world conditions and the fate of universal human rights. Containing chapter-by-chapter guides to further reading and discussion questions, this book will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students of human rights, and their teachers. David Forsythe received the Distinguished Scholar Award for 2007 from the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association. |
| jack donnelly international human rights: Global Good Samaritans Alison Brysk, 2009-03-17 In a troubled world where millions die at the hands of their own governments and societies, some states risk their citizens' lives, considerable portions of their national budgets, and repercussions from opposing states to protect helpless foreigners. Dozens of Canadian peacekeepers have died in Afghanistan defending humanitarian reconstruction in a shattered faraway land with no ties to their own. Each year, Sweden contributes over $3 billion to aid the world's poorest citizens and struggling democracies, asking nothing in return. And, a generation ago, Costa Rica defied U.S. power to broker a peace accord that ended civil wars in three neighboring countries--and has now joined with principled peers like South Africa to support the United Nations' International Criminal Court, despite U.S. pressure and aid cuts. Hundreds of thousands of refugees are alive today because they have been sheltered by one of these nations. Global Good Samaritans looks at the reasons why and how some states promote human rights internationally, arguing that humanitarian internationalism is more than episodic altruism--it is a pattern of persistent principled politics. Human rights as a principled foreign policy defies the realist prediction of untrammeled pursuit of national interest, and suggests the utility of constructivist approaches that investigate the role of ideas, identities, and influences on state action. Brysk shows how a diverse set of democratic middle powers, inspired by visionary leaders and strong civil societies, came to see the linkage between their long-term interest and the common good. She concludes that state promotion of global human rights may be an option for many more members of the international community and that the international human rights regime can be strengthened at the interstate level, alongside social movement campaigns and the struggle for the democratization of global governance. |
| jack donnelly international human rights: International Human Rights in Context Henry J. Steiner, Philip Alston, 1996 This major work offers a range of new cases and materials which help to explain the law of human rights in a broad context. |
| jack donnelly international human rights: Seeing the Myth in Human Rights Jenna Reinbold, 2016-11-08 The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights has been called one of the most powerful documents in human history. Today, the mere accusation of violations of the rights outlined in this document cows political leaders and riles the international community. Yet as a nonbinding document with no mechanism for enforcement, it holds almost no legal authority. Indeed, since its adoption, the Declaration's authority has been portrayed not as legal or political but as moral. Rather than providing a set of rules to follow or laws to obey, it represents a set of standards against which the world's societies are measured. It has achieved a level of rhetorical power and influence unlike anything else in modern world politics, becoming the foundational myth of the human rights project. Seeing the Myth in Human Rights presents an interdisciplinary investigation into the role of mythmaking in the creation and propagation of the Universal Declaration. Pushing beyond conventional understandings of myth, which tend to view such narratives as vehicles either for the spreading of particular religious dogmas or for the spreading of erroneous, even duplicitous, discourses, Jenna Reinbold mobilizes a robust body of scholarship within the field of religious studies to help us appreciate myth as a mode of human labor designed to generate meaning, solidarity, and order. This usage does not merely parallel today's scholarship on myth; it dovetails in unexpected ways with a burgeoning body of scholarship on the origin and function of contemporary human rights, and it puts the field of religious studies into conversation with the fields of political philosophy, critical legal studies, and human rights historiography. For Reinbold, myth is a phenomenon that is not merely germane to the exploration of specific religious narratives but is key to a broader understanding of the nature of political authority in the modern world. |
| jack donnelly international human rights: Social Institutions and International Human Rights Law Julie Fraser, 2020-08-06 Critiquing the State-centric and legalistic approach to implementing human rights, this book illustrates the efficacy of relying upon social institutions. |
| jack donnelly international human rights: Human Rights Futures Stephen Hopgood, Jack Snyder, Leslie Vinjamuri, 2017-08-31 With authoritarian states and global culture wars threatening human rights, this volume weighs hopes the for effective human rights advocacy. |
| jack donnelly international human rights: The Politics of Human Rights Sabine C. Carey, Mark Gibney, Steven C. Poe, 2010-10-14 Human rights is an important issue in contemporary politics, and the last few decades have also seen a remarkable increase in research and teaching on the subject. This book introduces students to the study of human rights and aims to build on their interest while simultaneously offering an alternative vision of the subject. Many texts focus on the theoretical and legal issues surrounding human rights. This book adopts a substantially different approach which uses empirical data derived from research on human rights by political scientists to illustrate the occurrence of different types of human rights violations across the world. The authors devote attention to rights as well as to responsibilities, neither of which stops at one country's political borders. They also explore how to deal with repression and the aftermath of human rights violations, making students aware of the prospects for and realities of progress. |
| jack donnelly international human rights: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Johannes Morsink, 2010-08-03 Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1999 Born of a shared revulsion against the horrors of the Holocaust, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has become the single most important statement of international ethics. It was inspired by and reflects the full scope of President Franklin Roosevelt's famous four freedoms: the freedom of speech and expression, the freedom of worship, the freedom from want, and the freedom from fear. Written by a UN commission led by Eleanor Roosevelt and adopted in 1948, the Declaration has become the moral backbone of more than two hundred human rights instruments that are now a part of our world. The result of a truly international negotiating process, the document has been a source of hope and inspiration to thousands of groups and millions of oppressed individuals. |
| jack donnelly international human rights: China, the United Nations, and Human Rights Ann Kent, 2013-08-31 Selected by Choice magazine as a Outstanding Academic Book for 2000 Nelson Mandela once said, Human rights have become the focal point of international relations. This has certainly become true in American relations with the People's Republic of China. Ann Kent's book documents China's compliance with the norms and rules of international treaties, and serves as a case study of the effectiveness of the international human rights regime, that network of international consensual agreements concerning acceptable treatment of individuals at the hands of nation-states. Since the early 1980s, and particularly since 1989, by means of vigorous monitoring and the strict maintenance of standards, United Nations human rights organizations have encouraged China to move away from its insistence on the principle of noninterference, to take part in resolutions critical of human rights conditions in other nations, and to accept the applicability to itself of human rights norms and UN procedures. Even though China has continued to suppress political dissidents at home, and appears at times resolutely defiant of outside pressure to reform, Ann Kent argues that it has gradually begun to implement some international human rights standards. |
| jack donnelly international human rights: Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry Michael Ignatieff, 2011-12-28 Michael Ignatieff draws on his extensive experience as a writer and commentator on world affairs to present a penetrating account of the successes, failures, and prospects of the human rights revolution. Since the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, this revolution has brought the world moral progress and broken the nation-state's monopoly on the conduct of international affairs. But it has also faced challenges. Ignatieff argues that human rights activists have rightly drawn criticism from Asia, the Islamic world, and within the West itself for being overambitious and unwilling to accept limits. It is now time, he writes, for activists to embrace a more modest agenda and to reestablish the balance between the rights of states and the rights of citizens. Ignatieff begins by examining the politics of human rights, assessing when it is appropriate to use the fact of human rights abuse to justify intervention in other countries. He then explores the ideas that underpin human rights, warning that human rights must not become an idolatry. In the spirit of Isaiah Berlin, he argues that human rights can command universal assent only if they are designed to protect and enhance the capacity of individuals to lead the lives they wish. By embracing this approach and recognizing that state sovereignty is the best guarantee against chaos, Ignatieff concludes, Western nations will have a better chance of extending the real progress of the past fifty years. Throughout, Ignatieff balances idealism with a sure sense of practical reality earned from his years of travel in zones of war and political turmoil around the globe. Based on the Tanner Lectures that Ignatieff delivered at Princeton University's Center for Human Values in 2000, the book includes two chapters by Ignatieff, an introduction by Amy Gutmann, comments by four leading scholars--K. Anthony Appiah, David A. Hollinger, Thomas W. Laqueur, and Diane F. Orentlicher--and a response by Ignatieff. |
| jack donnelly international human rights: Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice Jack Donnelly, 2003 In this thoroughly revised second edition, Donnelly elaborates a theory of human rights, addresses arguments of cultural relativism, and explores the efficacy of bilateral and multilateral international action. |
| jack donnelly international human rights: The International Struggle for New Human Rights Clifford Bob, 2009 Why are certain global problems recognized as human rights issues while others are not? This book highlights campaigns to persuade the human rights movement to move beyond traditional concerns and embrace pressing new ones. Its analytic framework and case studies reveal critical strategies and conflicts involved in the struggle for new rights. |
| jack donnelly international human rights: International Human Rights Law Olivier De Schutter, 2014-08-07 The leading textbook on international human rights law is now better than ever. The content has been fully updated and now provides more detailed coverage of substantive human rights, along with new sections on the war on terror and on the progressive realization of economic and social rights, making this the most comprehensive book in the field. It has a new, more student-friendly text design and has retained the features which made the first edition so engaging and accessible, including the concise and critical style, and questions and case studies within each chapter, as well as suggestions for further reading. Written by De Schutter, whose extensive experience working in the field and teaching the subject in both the US and EU gives him a unique perspective and valuable insight into the requirements of lecturers and students. This is an essential tool for all students of international human rights law. |
| jack donnelly international human rights: Human Rights Andrew Clapham, 2015 Focusing on highly topical issues such as torture, arbitrary detention, privacy, and discrimination, this book will help readers to understand for themselves the controversies and complexities behind human rights. |
| jack donnelly international human rights: The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations Jacob Katz Cogan, Ian Hurd, Ian Johnstone, 2016-11-10 Virtually every important question of public policy today involves an international organization. From trade to intellectual property to health policy and beyond, governments interact with international organizations in almost everything they do. Increasingly, individual citizens are directly affected by the work of international organizations. Aimed at academics, students, practitioners, and lawyers, this book gives a comprehensive overview of the world of international organizations today. It emphasizes both the practical aspects of their organization and operation, and the conceptual issues that arise at the junctures between nation-states and international authority, and between law and politics. While the focus is on inter-governmental organizations, the book also encompasses non-governmental organizations and public policy networks. With essays by the leading scholars and practitioners, the book first considers the main international organizations and the kinds of problems they address. This includes chapters on the organizations that relate to trade, humanitarian aid, peace operations, and more, as well as chapters on the history of international organizations. The book then looks at the constituent parts and internal functioning of international organizations. This addresses the internal management of the organization, and includes chapters on the distribution of decision-making power within the organizations, the structure of their assemblies, the role of Secretaries-General and other heads, budgets and finance, and other elements of complex bureaucracies at the international level. This book is essential reading for scholars, practitioners, and students alike. |
| jack donnelly international human rights: The Last Utopia Samuel Moyn, 2012-03-05 Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes. |
| jack donnelly international human rights: Campaigning for Justice Jo Becker, 2012-12-19 A study of strategies implemented in local, regional, and international human rights campaigns elucidating how advocates were able to achieve their goals. Advocates within the human rights movement have had remarkable success establishing new international laws, securing concrete changes in human rights policies and practices, and transforming the terms of public debate. Yet too often, the strategies these advocates have employed are not broadly shared or known. Campaigning for Justice addresses this gap to explain the “how” of the human rights movement. Written from a practitioner’s perspective, this book explores the strategies behind some of the most innovative human rights campaigns of recent years. Drawing on interviews with dozens of experienced human rights advocates, the book delves into local, regional, and international efforts to discover how advocates were able to address seemingly intractable abuses and secure concrete advances in human rights. These accounts provide a window into the way that human rights advocates conduct their work, their real-life struggles and challenges, the rich diversity of tools and strategies they employ, and ultimately, their courage and persistence in advancing human rights. Praise for Campaigning for Justice “This book is a gold mine. A terrific resource not only for those just entering human rights work, but also for those with years of experience.” —Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Co-founder, International Campaign to Ban Landmines “A singular contribution that will be indispensable for those interested in advocacy and human rights.” —Elazar Barkan, Director, Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University “Addressing the critical question of how human rights organizations actually do their work, this book has a currency that is needed right now.” —Barbara Frey, Director, Human Rights Program, University of Minnesota “A vivid testament to the lives of human rights activists, including Becker’s own, as advocates and courageous fighters for the rights of others.” —Radhika Coomaraswamy, Former Special representative to the Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict, United Nations |
| jack donnelly international human rights: Bait and Switch Julie Mertus, 2013-06-17 Although our era is marked by human rights rhetoric, human wrongs continue to be committed with impunity, and the idea of human rights is becoming impoverished. |
| jack donnelly international human rights: Achieving Human Rights Richard Falk, 2008-12 This book addresses similar questions as Falk's earlier Human Rights Horizons, extending the exploration of human rights discourse and practice to focus on matters of post-9/11 security issues, developments in international criminal law, the role of citizenship and democracy, and approaches from the humanities. |
| jack donnelly international human rights: Making Sense of Human Rights James W. Nickel, 1987 This fully revised and extended edition of James Nickel's classic study explains and defends the contemporary conception of human rights. Combining philosophical, legal and political approaches, Nickel explains international human rights law and addresses questions of justification and feasibility. New, revised edition of James Nickel's classic study. Explains and defends the conception of human rights found in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and subsequent treaties in a clear and lively style. Covers fundamental freedoms, due process rights, social rights, and minority rights. Updated throughout to include developments in law, politics, and theory since the publication of the first edition. New features for this edition include an extensive bibliography and a chapter on human rights and terrorism. |
| jack donnelly international human rights: The Globalization of World Politics John Baylis, Steve Smith, Patricia Owens, 2011 Now in its fifth edition, this title has been fully revised and updated in the light of recent developments in world politics, with new chapters on the changing nature of war, human security, and international ethics. |
| jack donnelly international human rights: Human Rights Michael Goodhart, 2013 Human Rights: Politics and Practice is an introduction to human rights that goes beyond a purely legal perspective to look at theoretical issues and practical approaches. Bringing together leading experts, it is up to date with cutting edge research in a constantly evolving field. |
| jack donnelly international human rights: International Human Rights Law Rhona K. M. Smith, 2018 Illustrating the scope of this fascinating and wide-reaching subject to the student, this clear and concise text gives a broad introduction to international human rights law. Coverage includes regional systems of protection, the role of the UN, and a variety of substantive rights. The author skilfully guides students through the complexities of the subject, and then prepares them for further study and research. Key cases and areas of debate are highlighted throughout, and a wealth of references to cases and further readings are provided at the end of each chapter. |
| jack donnelly international human rights: The Persistent Power of Human Rights Thomas Risse, Thomas Risse-Kappen, Steve C. Ropp, Stephen C. Ropp, Kathryn Sikkink, 2013-03-07 This book offers a unique combination of quantitative and qualitative research arguing for the persistent power of human rights norms. |
| jack donnelly international human rights: The Human Rights Reader Micheline Ishay, 2007 This book presents the most comprehensive collection of essays, speeches, and documents, from historical and contemporary sources, available on the subject of human rights. |
| jack donnelly international human rights: Diplomacy of Conscience Ann Marie Clark, 2010-03-18 A small group founded Amnesty International in 1961 to translate human rights principles into action. Diplomacy of Conscience provides a rich account of how the organization pioneered a combination of popular pressure and expert knowledge to advance global human rights. To an extent unmatched by predecessors and copied by successors, Amnesty International has employed worldwide publicity campaigns based on fact-finding and moral pressure to urge governments to improve human rights practices. Less well known is Amnesty International's significant impact on international law. It has helped forge the international community's repertoire of official responses to the most severe human rights violations, supplementing moral concern with expertise and conceptual vision. Diplomacy of Conscience traces Amnesty International's efforts to strengthen both popular human rights awareness and international law against torture, disappearances, and political killings. Drawing on primary interviews and archival research, Ann Marie Clark posits that Amnesty International's strenuously cultivated objectivity gave the group political independence and allowed it to be critical of all governments violating human rights. Its capacity to investigate abuses and interpret them according to international standards helped it foster consistency and coherence in new human rights law. Generalizing from this study, Clark builds a theory of the autonomous role of nongovernmental actors in the emergence of international norms pitting moral imperatives against state sovereignty. Her work is of substantial historical and theoretical relevance to those interested in how norms take shape in international society, as well as anyone studying the increasing visibility of nongovernmental organizations on the international scene. |
| jack donnelly international human rights: Human Rights in Latin America Sonia Cardenas, 2012-06-29 For the last half century, Latin America has been plagued by civil wars, dictatorships, torture, legacies of colonialism and racism, and other evils. The region has also experienced dramatic—if uneven—human rights improvements. The accounts of how Latin America's people have dealt with the persistent threats to their fundamental rights offer lessons for people around the world. Human Rights in Latin America: A Politics of Terror and Hope is the first textbook to provide a comprehensive introduction to the human rights issues facing an area that constitutes more than half of the Western Hemisphere. Leading human rights researcher and educator Sonia Cardenas brings together regional examples of both terror and hope, emphasizing the dualities inherent in human rights struggles. Organized by three pivotal topics—human rights violations, reform, and accountability—this book offers an authoritative synthesis of research on human rights on the continent. From historical accounts of abuse to successful transnational campaigns and legal battles, Human Rights in Latin America explores the tensions underlying a vast range of human rights initiatives. In addition to surveying the roles of the United States, relatives of the disappeared, and truth commissions, Cardenas covers newer ground in addressing the colonial and ideological underpinnings of human rights abuses, emerging campaigns for disability and sexuality rights, and regional dynamics relating to the International Criminal Court. Engagingly written and fully illustrated, Human Rights in Latin America creates an important niche among human rights and Latin American textbooks. Ample supplementary resources—including discussion questions, interdisciplinary reading lists, filmographies, online resources, internship opportunities, and instructor assignments—make this an especially valuable text for use in human rights courses. |
| jack donnelly international human rights: American Exceptionalism and Human Rights Michael Ignatieff, 2009-01-10 With the 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq, the most controversial question in world politics fast became whether the United States stands within the order of international law or outside it. Does America still play by the rules it helped create? American Exceptionalism and Human Rights addresses this question as it applies to U.S. behavior in relation to international human rights. With essays by eleven leading experts in such fields as international relations and international law, it seeks to show and explain how America's approach to human rights differs from that of most other Western nations. In his introduction, Michael Ignatieff identifies three main types of exceptionalism: exemptionalism (supporting treaties as long as Americans are exempt from them); double standards (criticizing others for not heeding the findings of international human rights bodies, but ignoring what these bodies say of the United States); and legal isolationism (the tendency of American judges to ignore other jurisdictions). The contributors use Ignatieff's essay as a jumping-off point to discuss specific types of exceptionalism--America's approach to capital punishment and to free speech, for example--or to explore the social, cultural, and institutional roots of exceptionalism. These essays--most of which appear in print here for the first time, and all of which have been revised or updated since being presented in a year-long lecture series on American exceptionalism at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government--are by Stanley Hoffmann, Paul Kahn, Harold Koh, Frank Michelman, Andrew Moravcsik, John Ruggie, Frederick Schauer, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Carol Steiker, and Cass Sunstein. |
| jack donnelly international human rights: Human Rights and Comparative Foreign Policy David P. Forsythe, 2006-09-30 Human Rights And Comparative Foreign Policy Is The First Book In English To Examine The Place Of Human Rights In The Foreign Policies Of A Wide Range Of States During Contemporary Times. The Book Is Also Unique In Utilizing A Common Framework Of Analysis For All 10 Of The Country Or Regional Studies Covered. This Framework Treats Foreign Policy As The Result Of A Two -Level Game In Which Both Domestic And Foreign Factors Have To Be Considered. Leading Experts From Around The World Analyze Both Liberal Democratic And Other Foreign Policies On Human Rights. A General Introduction And A Systematic Conclusion Add To The Coherence Of The Project. The Authors Note The Increasing Attention Given To Human Rights Issues In Contemporary Foreign Policy. At The Same Time, They Argue That Most States, Including Liberal Democratic States That Identify With Human Rights, Are Reluctant Most Of The Time To Elevate Human Rights Concerns To A Level Equal To That Of Traditional Security And Economic Concerns. When States Do Seek To Integrate Human Rights With These And Other Concerns, The Result Is Usually Great Inconsistency In Patterns Of Foreign Policy. The Book Further Argues That Different States Bring Different Emphases To Their Human Rights Diplomacy, Because Of Such Factors As National Political Culture And Perceived National Interests. In The Last Analysis States Can Be Compared Along Two Dimensions Pertaining To Human Rights: Extent To Which They Are Oriented Toward An International Rather Than National Conception Of Rights; And Extent To Which They Are Oriented Toward International Rather Than National Action To Protect Human Rights. |
| jack donnelly international human rights: Philosophy of Human Rights Patrick Hayden, 2001-02-13 Patrick Hayden brings together an extensive collection of classical and contemporary writings on the topic of human rights, providing an exceptionally comprehensive introduction to the subject. |
| jack donnelly international human rights: An Introduction to International Human Rights Law Azizur Rahman Chowdhury, Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan, 2010-06-14 This book is designed to provide an overview of the development and substance of international human rights law, and what is meant concretely by human rights guarantees, such as civil and political rights, and economic and social rights. It highlights the rights of women, globalization and human rights education. The book also explores domestic, regional and international endeavors to protect human rights. The history and role of human rights NGOs coupled with an analysis of diverse international mechanisms are succinctly woven into the text, which well reflects the scholarship and erudition of the authors. This lucidly written and timely volume will be of great help to anyone seeking to understand this area of law, be they students, lawyers, scholars, government officials, staff of international and non-international organizations, human rights activists or lay readers. |
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Assuming that human rights advocacy still largely hales from the West, Jack Donnelly asserts that it would gain additional legitimacy by recognizing the differences between Western cultures …
Genocide and humanitarian intervention - jackdonnelly.org
It is argued that changing conceptions of security and sovereignty, driven in part by the deeper penetration of international human rights norms and values, have produced a political …
MALS 4730: Human Rights Here and Abroad Fall 2003
6 Jul 2015 · How do American standards and practices measure up to international human rights norms? Should Americans be concerned about their divergences and shortcomings? And how …
Cultural Relativism and Universal Human Rights Author(s): Jack Donnelly ...
How can the competing claims of cultural relativism and universal human rights be reconciled? In this article I shall try to specify the nature of their relationship, and argue for an approach that …
HUMAN RIGHTS QUARTERLY - Jack Donnelly
29 Dec 2017 · Daniel J. Whelan* & Jack Donnelly**1 AbSTRAcT This article challenges the widespread belief that Western countries have been antagonistic to economic and social …
International Human Rights by Jack Donnelly
International Human Rights by Jack Donnelly Table of Contents List of Tables and Boxes Acknowledgments Acronyms Introduction: A Note to the Reader Human Rights as an Issue in …
Jack Donnelly's Universal Human Rights Theory and Practice
In his influential and recently updated book, Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice, Jack Donnelly grapples with many of the aforementioned arguments and ultimately concludes that …
International Human Rights, 4th ed.
Jack Donnelly’s most recent edition of his well-known text, International Human Rights, provides an updated discussion of the evolution of international human rights since the end of World …
INTS 4875: Human Rights and Foreign Policy Spring 2001 Jack Donnelly ...
INTS 4875: Human Rights and Foreign Policy Spring 2001 Jack Donnelly and David Goldfischer. This course explores the interaction of human rights with other foreign policy concerns, with …
Human Rights: The Impact of International Action - JSTOR
Human rights: the impact of international action JACK DONNELLY While hardly replacing considerations of power, security, ideo-logy, and economic interest, human rights have …
The Relative Universality of Human Rights (Revised) - University …
The global human rights regime relies on national implementation of internationally recognized human rights. Norm creation has been internationalized. Enforcement of authoritative …
Human rights, humanitarian crisis, and humanitarian intervention …
JACK DONNELLY Human rights, humanitarian crisis, and humanitarian intervention A decade ago, at the height of the Reagan administration's efforts to revive the Cold War, I published an …
Neither Relative nor Universal: A Response to Donnelly - JSTOR
Donnelly claims that "human rights represent the most effective response yet devised to a wide range of standard threats to human dignity" that have spread globally.
International Human Rights In A Nutshell _ Jack Donnelly Copy …
International Human Rights Jack Donnelly,2012-07-22 International Human Rights examines the ways in which states and other international actors have addressed human rights since the …
Critique of Human Rights Universalism - Springer
sality of human rights, to the extent that critics of universality are almost regarded as a threat to the international regime for the protection of human rights. As recently as 2008, Jack Donnelly …
The Netherlands Gradually Changing Views on International
PROTECTION OF CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS In international and comparative research, the Netherlands has often been ... 1993); Jack Donnelly, An Overview , in Human Rights and …
Human Rights and Human Dignity: An Analytic Critique of Non
Human Rights JACK DONNELLY College of the Holy Cross It is regularly argued that human rights are not a Western discovery and that non- Western societies have long emphasized the …
Human Rights: Between Universalism and Cultural Relativism
306 at page 2, according to Jack Donnelly, he said; I also emphasize that universal human rights, properly understood, leave considerable space for national, regional, cultural particularity and ...
INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS REGIMES - Conectas
analytical framework proposed by Jack Donnelly thirty years ago, which we will use as the basis of our systematic approach to the analysis of the international human ... international human …
The Reality of Western Support for Economic and Social Rights: …
31 Dec 2017 · at the widespread belief among human rights scholars and activists that the West was hostile to economic and social rights during and after World War * Daniel J. Whelan is …
INTS 4875: Human Rights and Foreign Policy Spring 2001 Jack Donnelly ...
Jack Donnelly, International Human Rights, ch. 1, 4, 5 (for students without any human rights background). Bruce W. Jentelson, American Foreign Policy: The Dynamics of Choice in the …
RIGHTS, by Jack Donnelly (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985
THE CONCEPT OF HUMAN RIGHTS, by Jack Donnelly (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985), 120 pp.; $15.95. It would be a mistake to bypass this ... case of human rights. They seem to be …
Human Rights and the Social Construction of Sovereignty - JSTOR
the international human rights regime as a response to decolonization and the spread of 'ramshackle states' in the Third World.4 2 Henry Shue, Basic Rights, 2nd edn. ... 8 Vincent, …
The “Relative Universality” of Human Rights: An Assessment - Brill
328 • Steve On 4 My engagement draws mainly on the second edition of Donnelly’s Universal Human Rights: In Theory and Practice (2003), which builds on the “accumulation of essays” of …
Human Rights and Asian Values - Carnegie Council for Ethics in ...
Human Rights Factor,” Issues and .Studies 30 (October 1994): 69; see also Jack Donnelly, “Human Rights and Asian Values,” paper presented at a workshop of the Carnegie Council’s …
Human Rights and International Relations - EOLSS
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS – Vol.II – Human Rights and International Relations - Peter R. Baehr ... Jack Donnelly, has made the point that emphasis on the individual is one of the most …
Cultural Relativism and Cultural Imperialism in Human Rights Law
international human rights law on a source of authority superior to the state. This source of authority was a universally valid moral principle. Drawing on the Lockean social contract …
Human Rights and the Social Construction of Sovereignty - JSTOR
the international human rights regime as a response to decolonization and the spread of 'ramshackle states' in the Third World.4 2 Henry Shue, Basic Rights, 2nd edn. ... 8 Vincent, …
Realism and International Relations - Cambridge University Press ...
Contents Acknowledgments page vii Introduction 1 1 The realist tradition 6 2 Human nature and state motivation 43 3 Anarchy,hierarchy,and order 81 4 System,structure,and balance of …
Realism and International Relations - Cambridge University Press ...
Donnelly,Jack. Realism and international relations / Jack Donnelly. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0 521 59229 1 (hb) – ISBN 0 521 59752 8 (pb) 1.International …
THE EAST ASIAN CHALLENGE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
JACK DONNELLY* I came to the collective project that led to this book not, obviously, as an Asian, nor even as a specialist on Asian politics or society. Rather, I am an American who has …
The Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights: An Overview
2 slow to examine human rights as they are conceived in international law and politics.5 There was growing philosophical work on basic moral or natural rights,6 and also on the very nature …
Neither Relative nor Universal: A Response to Donnelly - JSTOR
HUMAN RIGHTS QUARTERLY Neither Relative nor Universal: A Response to Donnelly Michael Goodhart ABSTRACT This response raises questions about Jack Donnelly's argument for the …
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Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice, Jack Donnelly, Cornell University Press, 2013, 0801467489, 9780801467486, 296 pages. In the third edition of his classic work, revised ...
BOOK REVIEWS - JSTOR
BOOK REVIEWS UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS IN THEORY AND PRACTICE, by Jack Donnelly (Ithaca, NY: Cornell Uni-versity Press, 1989), $36.50/$12.95. Introducing the subject of human
Human Rights in Global Politics - Cambridge University Press
Introduction: human rights and the fifty years’ crisis 1 tim dunne and nicholas j. wheeler I Theories of human rights 29 1 Three tyrannies 31 ken booth 2 The social construction of …
Human Rights and International Relations - EOLSS
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS – Vol.II – Human Rights and International Relations - Peter R. Baehr ... Jack Donnelly, has made the point that emphasis on the individual is one of the most …
International Human Rights - CORE
• Identify potential roles for oneself in the promotion of human rights. REQUIRED BOOKS • Jack Donnelly and Daniel J. Whelan, International Human Rights, 5th ed. (Boulder: CO: Westview …
Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice - GBV
Jack Donnelly CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS ITHACA AND LONDON. Contents PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION IX INTRODUCTION 1 Part I. Toward a Theory of Universal Human …
Human Security: Undermining Human Rights? - JSTOR
inadvertently undermine the international human rights regime. Insofar as human security identifies new threats to well-being, new victims of those threats, new duties of states, or new …
Affirming Universal Human Rights - Columbia University
Affirming Universal Human Rights By Richard Falk Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice (Second Edition) by Jack Donnelly. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003. 290 …
Karel Vasak’s Generations of Rights and the Contemporary Human Rights ...
Ultimately, the third generation of rights assumes that they are positive, in terms of requiring active participation of duty-bearers; collective, in terms that focus on people
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From the 'Single Confused Page' to the 'Decalogue for Six
Relativism on International Human Rights Law: Female Circumcision as a Case Study, 7 LAW & INEQ. 367 (1989); CARNEGIE COUNCIL ON ETHICS AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, …
International Human Rights: A Regime Analysis - JSTOR
International human rights: a regime analysis Jack Donnelly International regimes is the current "hot" topic in the study of international relations, especially international organization and …
The Relative Universality of Human Rights - Menneskeret
The Relative Universality of Human Rights Donnelly, Jack. Human Rights Quarterly, Volume 29, Number 2, May 2007, pp. 281-306 (Article) Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press …
Neither Relative nor Universal: A Response to Donnelly
Jack Donnelly’s recent article, “The Relative Universality of Human Rights,” reminds us why he is the leading theorist of human rights today. 1 It combines an unparalleled breadth of learning …
Harvard University - teachinghumanrights.uconn.edu
Jack Donnelly "Human rights: The Impact of International Action," in International Journal 43 (Spring 1988), pp. 241-263. The Burma Pipeline (HBS Case 9-797-149).
The Negative and Moral Right to Life - CORE
In International Human Rights, Jack Donnelly offers a modernity argument for the development of human rights citing massive development post-World War I with the Jewish Holocaust serving …
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6 Jul 2015 · Jack Donnelly Human Rights and Foreign Policy Summer 2006 This course examines the interaction of human rights with other foreign policy concerns, focusing primarily on United …
Evaluating Human Rights in Africa: Some Problems of Implicit
In this paper, I illustrate the problems of how implicit human rights com-parisons affect one's evaluations of human rights performance, by discussing 1. The International Bill of Human …
Human Rights in a Multicultural World - JSTOR
many, which sharpened the awareness that international standards of human rights had become an urgent need.12 Such experiences of injustice lie at the heart of the human rights …
The Relative Universality of Human Rights - ResearchGate
25 Aug 2010 · The Relative Universality of Human Rights Donnelly, Jack. Human Rights Quarterly, Volume 29, Number 2, May 2007, pp. ... Human rights as an international political …
1. Introduction to international human rights law and diplomacy
International human rights law (IHRL) is a body of legal norms, not moral or political obligations,1 regulating human rights among nation States. IHRL ... 144–6; Jack Donnelly, International …
September 15: Introduction - University of Connecticut
6 Jul 2015 · Jack Donnelly Introduction to Human Rights Fall 2005 ... International Human Rights Standards," in An Na'im, Human Rights in Cross-Cultural Perspectives. *Onuma Yasuaki, …
Human Rights: The Impact of International Action - JSTOR
international action JACK DONNELLY While hardly replacing considerations of power, security, ideo-logy, and economic interest, human rights have become a sig- ... Jack Donnelly, Human …
2 The constitutional politics of judicial review and the Supreme …
Series (No. 15–349); Jack Donnelly, Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice (Cornell University Press, 3rd ed., 2013). 2 The question of whether democracy should authorise …
Karel Vasak s Generations of Rights and the Contemporary Human Rights ...
Even critics of the concept itself, like Philip Alston, Jack Donnelly, or Hurst Hannum, recognize the practical existence of separate groups containing specific features. Similar to Vašák, Micheline …
HUMAN RIGHTS QUARTERLY - JSTOR
HUMAN RIGHTS QUARTERLY A COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES, HUMANITIES, AND LAW ... Relativity in Universality: Jack Donnelly's …
Human Rights Norms, State Sovereignty, - JSTOR
and International Relations 71 (Jennifer M. Welsh ed. 2004); Jack Donnelly, Universal Hu man Rights in Theory and Practice 243 (2d ed. 2003); J.L. Holzgrefe, The Humanitarian ... to …
Human rights and the social construction of sovereignty
8 Vincent, Human Rights, pp. 7–18; Jack Donnelly,Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1989), pp. 9–27; ... international human rights …
Pedersen - International Human Rights 2013 - University of …
Jack Donnelly, International Human Rights (4th ed, Westview, 2012) Micheline Ishay, History of Human Rights from Ancient Times to the Globalization Era (2nd ed., University of California, …
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In an article in the Human Rights Quarterlyhowever,, Daniel Whelan and Jack Donnelly challenged this narrative, questioning what they call the “myth of Western opposition” to …
