Human Rights And Empire

Author : Costas Douzinas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781134090051

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Erudite and timely, this book is a key contribution to the renewal of radical theory and politics. Addressing the paradox of a contemporary humanitarianism that has abandoned politics in favour of combating evil, Douzinas, a leading scholar and author in the field of human rights and legal theory, considers the most pressing international questions. Asking whether there ‘is an intrinsic relationship between human rights and the recent wars carried out in their name?’ and whether ‘human rights are a barrier against domination and oppression or the ideological gloss of an emerging empire?’ this book examines a range of topics, including: the normative characteristics, political philosophy and metaphysical foundations of our age the subjective and institutional aspects of human rights and their involvement in the creation of identity and definition of the meaning and powers of humanity the use of human rights as a justification for a new configuration of political, economic and military power. Exploring the legacy and the contemporary role of human rights, this topical and incisive book is a must for all those interested in human rights law, jurisprudence and philosophy of law, political philosophy and political theory.

Author : Costas Douzinas
Publisher : Routledge Cavendish
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415427584

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Addressing the paradox of a contemporary humanitarianism that has been abandoned in politics in favour of combating evil, Costas Douzinas, a very well respected author of several important books on human rights and legal theory, examines the most pressing international questions.

Author : Alfred William Brian Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1188 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0199267898

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Human Rights and the End of Empire by Alfred William Brian Simpson Pdf

The European Convention on Human Rights of 1950 established the most effective international system of human rights protection ever created. This is the first book that gives a comprehensive account of how it came into existence, of the part played in its genesis by the British government, and of its significance for Britain in the period between 1953 and 1966.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Cosmopolitanism
ISBN : OCLC:922017080

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Author : Costas Douzinas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000-06-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847316790

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The End of Human Rights by Costas Douzinas Pdf

The introduction of the Human Rights Act has led to an explosion in books on human rights, yet no sustained examination of their history and philosophy exists in the burgeoning literature. At the same time, while human rights have triumphed on the world stage as the ideology of postmodernity, our age has witnessed more violations of human rights than any previous, less enlightened one. This book fills the historical and theoretical gap and explores the powerful promises and disturbing paradoxes of human rights. Divided in two parts and fourteen chapters, the book offers first an alternative history of natural law, in which natural rights represent the eternal human struggle to resist domination and oppression and to fight for a society in which people are no longer degraded or despised. At the time of their birth, in the 18th century, and again in the popular uprisings of the last decade, human rights became the dominant critique of the conservatism of law. But the radical energy, symbolic value and apparently endless expansive potential of rights has led to their adoption both by governments wishing to justify their policies on moral grounds and by individuals fighting for the public recognition of private desires and has undermined their ends. Part Two examines the philosophical logic of rights. Rights, the most liberal of institutions, has been largely misunderstood by established political philosophy and jurisprudence as a result of their cognitive limitations and ethically impoverished views of the individual subject and of the social bond. The liberal approaches of Hobbes, Locke and Kant are juxtaposed to the classical critiques of the concept of human rights by Burke, Hegel and Marx. The philosophies of Heidegger, Strauss, Arendt and Sartre are used to deconstruct the concept of the (legal) subject. Semiotics and psychoanalysis help explore the catastrophic consequences of both universalists and cultural relativists when they become convinced about their correctness. Finally, through a consideration of the ethics of otherness, and with reference to recent human rights violations, it is argued that the end of human rights is to judge law and politics from a position of moral transcendence. This is a comprehensive historical and theoretical examination of the discourse and practice of human rights. Using examples from recent moral foreign policies in Iraq, Rwanda and Kosovo, Douzinas radically argues that the defensive and emancipatory role of human rights will come to an end if we do not re-invent their utopian ideal.

Author : Costas Douzinas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781134090068

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Erudite and timely, this book is a key contribution to the renewal of radical theory and politics. Douzinas, a leading scholar and author in the field of human rights and legal theory, considers the most pressing international questions surrounding the legacy and contemporary role of human rights.

Author : A. Dirk Moses,Marco Duranti,Roland Burke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108479356

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Decolonization, Self-Determination, and the Rise of Global Human Rights Politics by A. Dirk Moses,Marco Duranti,Roland Burke Pdf

Leading scholars demonstrate how colonial subjects, national liberation movements, and empires mobilized human rights language to contest self-determination during decolonization.

Author : Brian Drohan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501714672

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Brutality in an Age of Human Rights by Brian Drohan Pdf

Introduction : counterinsurgency and human rights in the post-1945 world -- A lawyers' war : emergency legislation and the Cyprus Bar Council -- The shadow of Strasbourg : international advocacy and Britain's response -- Hunger war : humanitarian rights and the Radfan campaign -- This unhappy affair : investigating torture in Aden -- A more talkative place : Northern Ireland

Author : Michael N. Barnett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108836791

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Humanitarianism and Human Rights by Michael N. Barnett Pdf

Explores the fluctuating relationship between human rights and humanitarianism and the changing nature of the politics and practices of humanity.

Author : Christopher N. J. Roberts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107014633

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The Contentious History of the International Bill of Human Rights by Christopher N. J. Roberts Pdf

This book shows how a series of contradictions worked their way into the International Bill of Human Rights.

Author : Stephen R. Porter
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812248562

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Benevolent Empire by Stephen R. Porter Pdf

Stephen Porter examines political-refugee aid initiatives and related humanitarian endeavors led by American people and institutions from World War I through the Cold War. The supporters of these endeavors presented the United States as a new kind of world power, a Benevolent Empire.

Author : Tyler Shipley
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781771133159

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Ottawa and Empire by Tyler Shipley Pdf

In June 2009, the democratically elected president of Honduras was kidnapped and whisked out of the country while the military and business elite consolidated a coup d’etat. To the surprise of many, Canada implicitly supported the coup and assisted the coup leaders in consolidating their control over the country. Since the coup, Canada has increased its presence in Honduras, even while the country has been plunged into a human rights catastrophe, highlighted by the assassination of prominent Indigenous activist Berta Cáceres in 2016. Drawing from the Honduran experience, Ottawa and Empire makes it clear that Canada has emerged as an imperial power in the 21st century.

Author : Stephen Hopgood
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801469305

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The Endtimes of Human Rights by Stephen Hopgood Pdf

"We are living through the endtimes of the civilizing mission. The ineffectual International Criminal Court and its disastrous first prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, along with the failure in Syria of the Responsibility to Protect are the latest pieces of evidence not of transient misfortunes but of fatal structural defects in international humanism. Whether it is the increase in deadly attacks on aid workers, the torture and 'disappearing' of al-Qaeda suspects by American officials, the flouting of international law by states such as Sri Lanka and Sudan, or the shambles of the Khmer Rouge tribunal in Phnom Penh, the prospect of one world under secular human rights law is receding. What seemed like a dawn is in fact a sunset. The foundations of universal liberal norms and global governance are crumbling."—from The Endtimes of Human Rights In a book that is at once passionate and provocative, Stephen Hopgood argues, against the conventional wisdom, that the idea of universal human rights has become not only ill adapted to current realities but also overambitious and unresponsive. A shift in the global balance of power away from the United States further undermines the foundations on which the global human rights regime is based. American decline exposes the contradictions, hypocrisies and weaknesses behind the attempt to enforce this regime around the world and opens the way for resurgent religious and sovereign actors to challenge human rights. Historically, Hopgood writes, universal humanist norms inspired a sense of secular religiosity among the new middle classes of a rapidly modernizing Europe. Human rights were the product of a particular worldview (Western European and Christian) and specific historical moments (humanitarianism in the nineteenth century, the aftermath of the Holocaust). They were an antidote to a troubling contradiction—the coexistence of a belief in progress with horrifying violence and growing inequality. The obsolescence of that founding purpose in the modern globalized world has, Hopgood asserts, transformed the institutions created to perform it, such as the International Committee of the Red Cross and recently the International Criminal Court, into self-perpetuating structures of intermittent power and authority that mask their lack of democratic legitimacy and systematic ineffectiveness. At their best, they provide relief in extraordinary situations of great distress; otherwise they are serving up a mixture of false hope and unaccountability sustained by “human rights” as a global brand. The Endtimes of Human Rights is sure to be controversial. Hopgood makes a plea for a new understanding of where hope lies for human rights, a plea that mourns the promise but rejects the reality of universalism in favor of a less predictable encounter with the diverse realities of today’s multipolar world.

Author : James Peck
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429991568

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Ideal Illusions by James Peck Pdf

From a noted historian and foreign-policy analyst, a groundbreaking critique of the troubling symbiosis between Washington and the human rights movement The United States has long been hailed as a powerful force for global human rights. Now, drawing on thousands of documents from the CIA, the National Security Council, the Pentagon, and development agencies, James Peck shows in blunt detail how Washington has shaped human rights into a potent ideological weapon for purposes having little to do with rights—and everything to do with furthering America's global reach. Using the words of Washington's leaders when they are speaking among themselves, Peck tracks the rise of human rights from its dismissal in the cold war years as "fuzzy minded" to its calculated adoption, after the Vietnam War, as a rationale for American foreign engagement. He considers such milestones as the fight for Soviet dissidents, Tiananmen Square, and today's war on terror, exposing in the process how the human rights movement has too often failed to challenge Washington's strategies. A gripping and elegant work of analysis, Ideal Illusions argues that the movement must break free from Washington if it is to develop a truly uncompromising critique of power in all its forms.

Author : Pamela Slotte,Miia Halme
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107107649

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Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights by Pamela Slotte,Miia Halme Pdf

Scholars of history, law, theology and anthropology critically revisit the history of human rights.