Title: Nationalism and human rights
Description: "This collection of essays explores the relationship between nationalism and human rights by probing from various angles the nature of nationalism and the normative orientation of human rights. By critically addressing the tension between nationalism and human rights that is presumed in much of the existing literature, the essays in this volume confront the question of how we should construe human rights: as a normative challenge to the excesses of modernity, particularly those associated with the modern nation-state, or as an adjunct of globalization, with its attendant goal of constructing a universal civilization based on neoliberal economic principles and individual liberty"--
Subjects: Human rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Nationalism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / General, Political aspects, Nationalism, Human rights, middle east, Nationalism, middle east, Human rights, europe, Nationalism, europe, Pacific area, politics and government, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Political Freedom & Security, Political Ideologies, General, Nationalismus, Menschenrecht
Places: Central Europe, Pacific Area, Middle East