The debasement of human rights
Subtitle: how politics sabotage the ideal of freedom
By: Aaron Rhodes
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781594039799
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Human rights; Natural law; Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-277) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : a threat to freedom; title: Part 1. What happened to human rights. The Achilles' heel of international human rights; title: The concept of human rights during the Cold War; title: Birth of the post-Cold War human rights dogma; title: Part 2. The consequences for liberty. Toward human rights without freedom; title: The loss of America's human rights exceptionalism; title: A convergence against liberty; title: Conclusion : on the future of international human rights.