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This edited collection, based on the 2001 Oxford Amnesty Lectures, focuses on human rights abuses and the way in which these are interpreted. The contributors are Tzvetan Todorov, Michael Ignatieff, Gayatri Spivak, Peter Singer, Gitta Sereny, Geoffrey Bindman, Susan Sontag, and Eva Hoffman, with commentaries on their essays from Niall Fergusson, Timothy Garton Ash, Hermione Lee, and others. The issues explored in the talks include the right of the international community to military intervention in human rights abuses, the ethical and legal difficulties in bringing rights abusers to justice, the human tendency towards racist attitudes, the impact of postcolonialism, and the way in which human evil is represented in photography.
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Nicholas Owen is University Lecturer in Politics and Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford
This edited collection, based on the 2001 Oxford Amnesty Lectures, focuses on human rights abuses and the way in which these are interpreted. The contributors are Tzvetan Todorov, Michael Ignatieff, Gayatri Spivak, Peter Singer, Gitta Sereny, Geoffrey Bindman, Susan Sontag, and Eva Hoffman, with commentaries on their essays from Niall Fergusson, Timothy Garton Ash, Hermione Lee, and others. The issues explored in the talks include the right of the international community to military intervention in human rights abuses, the ethical and legal difficulties in bringing rights abusers to justice, the human tendency towards racist attitudes, the impact of postcolonialism, and the way in which human evil is represented in photography.
About the Author
Nicholas Owen is University Lecturer in Politics and Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford
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The recent military intervention in Kosovo has often been presented as arising from a new doctrine, summarized the phrase 'the right to intervene' (le droit d'ingerance). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
inner racism, coercive military action, class apartheid, human rights enforcement, bad neighbourhoods, universal jurisdiction, subordinate cultures, international criminal court Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United Nations, Security Council, United States, Amnesty International, European Union, Second World War, South Africa, Universal Declaration, Cold War, Geoffrey Bindman, Gitta Sereny, Michael Ignatieff, General Assembly, Rome Treaty, Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, United Kingdom, New York, Nazi Germany, Nuremberg Tribunal, Saudi Arabia, Albert Speer, International Covenant, Khmer Rouge, Latin America New!
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- Perpetual Peace, and Other Essays on Politics, History, and Morals (HPC Classics Series) by Immanuel Kant on page 79, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- History of the Present: Essays, Sketches, and Dispatches from Europe in the 1990s by Timothy Garton Ash in Front Matter, page 74, and Back Matter
- A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in Front Matter, page 139, and Back Matter
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