Rethinking Human Rights brings together a team of authors—from fields as diverse as political theory, peace studies, international law, and media studies—concerned with a new international agenda of human rights promotion. The collection presents an original and tightly argued critique of current trends and deals with a range of questions concerning the implication of human rights approaches for humanitarian aid, state sovereignty, international law, democracy, and political autonomy.
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"An important addition to the debate over contemporary human rights programs..."--Conscience, Summer 2003
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David Chandler is Lecturer in International Relations, Brunel University, Middlesex.
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Over the past decade, a new 'human rights-based' approach to aid provision has achieved prominence. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
human rights scrutiny, advocacy journalists, cosmopolitan theorists, poor country governments, new humanitarianism, cosmopolitan framework, fictitious rights, marketplace massacre, human rights approach, cosmopolitan rights, cosmopolitan citizen, cosmopolitan democracy, humanitarian intervention, humanitarian agencies, rights regime, advocacy journalism, moral universalism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World Bank, New Humanitarians, Northern Ireland, Security Council, Cold War, United States, Garton Ash, Human Rights Watch, United Nations, Michael Ignatieff, Orange Order, Red Cross, Arusha Accords, Avenging Angels, Barrie Collins, David Chandler, Fiona Fox, Moral Combat, Philip Hammond, State Department, The Limits of Human Rights, Chris Gilligan, Conditioning the Right, John Laughland, John Pender New!
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Over the past decade, a new 'human rights-based' approach to aid provision has achieved prominence. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
human rights scrutiny, advocacy journalists, cosmopolitan theorists, poor country governments, new humanitarianism, cosmopolitan framework, fictitious rights, marketplace massacre, human rights approach, cosmopolitan rights, cosmopolitan citizen, cosmopolitan democracy, humanitarian intervention, humanitarian agencies, rights regime, advocacy journalism, moral universalism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World Bank, New Humanitarians, Northern Ireland, Security Council, Cold War, United States, Garton Ash, Human Rights Watch, United Nations, Michael Ignatieff, Orange Order, Red Cross, Arusha Accords, Avenging Angels, Barrie Collins, David Chandler, Fiona Fox, Moral Combat, Philip Hammond, State Department, The Limits of Human Rights, Chris Gilligan, Conditioning the Right, John Laughland, John Pender New!
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- Northern Ireland by Guelke on 8 pages
- The World Bank: Structure and Policies (Global Economic Institutions) by Christopher L. Gilbert on 6 pages
- Degraded Capability: The Media and the Kosovo Crisis by Philip Hammond on 5 pages
- Frontiers of Development Economics: The Future in Perspective by Gerald M. Meier in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Politics of Humanitarian Intervention by John Harriss in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Peace Operations and Global Order (Cass Series on Peacekeeping) by Alex J. Bellamy in Front Matter, and page 81
- Empire in the Age of Globalisation: U.S. Hegemony and Neo-Liberal Disorder (Critical Introductions to World Politics) by Ray Kiely in Back Matter
- Empire's Law: The American Imperial Project and the "War to Rema by Amy Bartholomew on page 108
- From Kosovo to Kabul and Beyond: Human Rights and International Intervention by David Chandler in Front Matter
- Global Civil Society: Contested Futures (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics) by Gideon Baker on page 67
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