International human rights

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Case Studies -- List of Problems -- List of Tables -- Acronyms -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: A Note to the Reader -- Part One: History and Theory -- 1. Human Rights in Global Politics: Historical Perspective -- 1. The Emergence of International Human Rights Norms -- 2. The Universal Declaration -- 3. The Covenants -- 4. The 1970s: From Standard Setting to Monitoring -- 5. The 1980s: Further Growth and Institutionalization -- 6. The 1990s: Consolidating Progress and Acting Against Genocide -- 7. Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century -- 8. The Global Human Rights Regime -- Discussion Questions -- Suggested Readings -- 2. Theories of Human Rights -- 1. Rights in General -- 2. Human Rights in Particular -- 3. The Source or Justification of Human Rights -- 4. Equal Concern and Respect -- 5. The Unity of Human Rights -- 6. Duties and Duty-Bearers of Human Rights -- 7. Human Rights and Related Practices -- 8. Sovereignty and International Society -- 9. Three Models of International Human Rights -- 10. The Realist Challenge to Human Rights -- Problem 1: Democracy and Human Rights -- Discussion Questions -- Suggested Readings -- 3. The Relative Universality of Human Rights -- 1. Universality and Relativity -- 2. International Legal Universality -- 3. Overlapping Consensus Universality -- 4. Functional Universality -- 5. Anthropological or Historical Relativity -- 6. Cultural Relativism -- 7. Universal Rights, Not Identical Practices -- 8. Universalism Without Imperialism -- 9. The Relative Universality of Human Rights -- Problem 2: Hate Speech -- Problem 3: Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation -- Discussion Questions -- Suggested Readings -- 4. The Unity of Human Rights -- 1. Interdependent and Interrelated Rights -- 2. The Indivisibility of Human Rights.

3. Politics, History, Theory, and Consensus -- 4. Three Generations of Human Rights? -- Problem 4: Human Rights: Hierarchical or Indivisible? -- Discussion Questions -- Suggested Readings -- Part Two: Multilateral, Bilateral, and Transnational Action -- 5. Global Multilateral Mechanisms -- 1. The Human Rights Council -- 2. The Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights -- 3. Treaty-Reporting Systems -- 4. Additional Global Actors -- 5. Mainstreaming Human Rights Throughout the U.N. System -- 6. Case Study: The Special Procedures -- Discussion Questions -- Suggested Readings -- 6. Regional Human Rights Regimes -- 1. The European Regional Regime -- 2. The Inter-American System -- 3. The African Regional Regime -- 4. Asia -- 5. The Arab World -- 6. Assessing Regional Human Rights Regimes -- 7. Case Study: Chile and the Inter-American Commission -- Discussion Questions -- Suggested Readings -- 7. Human Rights and Foreign Policy -- 1. Human Rights and the National Interest -- 2. Means and Mechanisms of Bilateral Action -- 3. The Aims and Effects of Human Rights Policies -- 4. Drawbacks, Problems, and Criticisms -- 5. Political Rhetoric Versus Political Will -- Discussion Questions -- Suggested Readings -- 8. Human Rights in American Foreign Policy -- 1. Historical Overview -- 2. Human Rights and American Exceptionalism -- 3. Case Study: U.S. Policy in Central America -- 4. Case Study: U.S. Policy Toward South Africa -- 5. Case Study: American Policy Toward Myanmar (Burma) -- 6. Case Study: Israeli Settlements in West Bank Palestine -- 7. Other Western Approaches to International Human Rights -- 8. Explaining Differences in Human Rights Policies -- Problem 5: U.S. Ratification of Human Rights Treaties -- Discussion Questions -- Suggested Readings -- 9. Transnational Human Rights Advocacy -- 1. Case Study: Amnesty International.

2. Case Study: Human Rights Watch -- 3. Nonpartisan Action -- 4. Other Advocacy Actions: Celebrity and Consumer Campaigns -- 5. NGO Legitimacy -- Problem 6: Human Rights Obligations of Multinational Corporations -- Discussion Questions -- Suggested Readings -- Part Three: Contemporary Issues -- 10. Humanitarian Intervention -- 1. Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity -- 2. Case Study: Bosnia -- 3. Case Study: Rwanda -- 4. Case Study: Kosovo -- 5. The Authority to Intervene -- 6. Case Study: East Timor -- 7. The Right to Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect -- 8. Case Study: Libya -- 9. Case Study: Sudan -- 10. Justifying Humanitarian Intervention -- Problem 7: The War in Syria -- Discussion Questions -- Suggested Readings -- 11. Globalization, the State, and Human Rights -- 1. Globalization -- 2. States and Human Rights -- 3. Markets and Liberal Democratic Welfare States -- 4. Market Democracy and American Foreign Policy -- 5. An Alliance of States and Human Rights Advocates? -- Problem 8: The Global North and South and Market Redistributions -- Discussion Questions -- Suggested Readings -- 12. (Anti)Terrorism and Human Rights -- 1. International Human Rights Law and the Dilemmas of Counterterrorism -- 2. The War on Terror and the Retreat of Human Rights -- 3. Human Rights, Security, and Foreign Policy -- 4. The Axis of Evil -- 5. The War Against Iraq -- 6. Recent Developments: Progress or Retreat? -- Problem 9: The Absolute Prohibition of Torture -- Problem 10: (Anti)Terrorism and Civil Liberties -- Discussion Questions -- Suggested Readings -- Notes -- Appendix: Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- Glossary -- Index.