Achieving human rights / Richard Falk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Falk, Richard A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Physical Description:

x, 244 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2009.

Summary:

Richard Falk once again captures our attention with a nuanced analysis of what we need to do-at the personal level as well as state actions-to refocus our pursuit of human rights in a post-9/11 world. Falk masterly weaves together such topics as the Iraq War, U.S. human rights practices and abuses, humanitarian intervention, the rule of law, responses to terrorism, genocide, the Pinochet trial, information technology, and many other topics to create a moral tapestry of world order with human rights at the center.

Contents:

Toward a necessary utopianism: democratic global governance

The power of rights and the rights of power: what future for human rights?

Orientalism and international law

Toward global democracy

Citizenship and globalization

The Holocaust and the emergence of international human rights

The Pinochet moment: whither universal jurisdiction?

Genocide at the world court: the case against Serbia

A descending spiral

Encroaching on the rule of law: counter-terrorist justifications

Humanitarian intervention

Crimes, lies, and law: human rights in adversity

Humanity in question

The ideal of the citizen pilgrim.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-232) and index.

ISBN:

9780415990158

0415990157

9780415990165

0415990165

9780203889107

020388910X

OCLC:

226984648