Achieving human rights
By: Richard A. Falk.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780415990158; 9780415990165; 9780203889107
Subjects: Human rights
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Toward a necessary utopianism: democratic global governance; title: The power of rights and the rights of power: what future for human rights?; title: Orientalism and international law; title: Nurturing global democracy; title: Toward global democracy; title: Citizenship and globalization; title: International criminal law; title: The holocaust and the emergence of international human rights; title: The Pinochet moment: whither universal jurisdiction; title: Genocide at the World court: the case against Serbia; title: Human rights after 9/11; title: A descending spiral; title: Encroaching on the rule of law: counter-terrorist justifications; title: Humanitarian intervention; title: Beyond politics; title: Crimes, lies, and law: human rights in adversity; title: Humanity in question; title: The ideal of the citizen pilgrim.