The endtimes of human rights / Stephen Hopgood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hopgood, Stephen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--International cooperation.

Human rights.

Human rights--Moral and ethical aspects.

Human rights--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

xv, 255 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.

Summary:

In a book that is at once passionate and provocative, Stephen Hopgood argues, against the conventional wisdom, that the idea of universal human rights has become not only ill adapted to current realities but also overambitious and unresponsive. A shift in the global balance of power away from the United States further undermines the foundations on which the global human rights regime is based. American decline exposes the contradictions, hypocrisies and weaknesses behind the attempt to enforce this regime around the world and opens the way for resurgent religious and sovereign actors to challenge human rights. -- Publisher website.

Contents:

Moral authority in a godless world

The church of human rights

The Holocaust metanarrative

The moral architecture of suffering

Human rights and American power

Human rights empire

Of gods and nations

The NeoWestphalian world.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780801452376

0801452376

OCLC:

843037132