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Individual rights and the making of the international system / Christian Reus-Smit.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reus-Smit, Christian, 1961- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civil rights--History.
- Civil rights.
- Human rights--History.
- Human rights.
- Sovereignty--History.
- Sovereignty.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 236 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Individual Rights & the Making of the International System
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- We live today in the first global system of sovereign states in history, encompassing all of the world's polities, peoples, religions and civilizations. Christian Reus-Smit presents a new account of how this system came to be, one in which struggles for individual rights play a central role. The international system expanded from its original European core in five great waves, each involving the fragmentation of one or more empires into a host of successor sovereign states. In the most important, associated with the Westphalian settlement, the independence of Latin America, and post-1945 decolonization, the mobilization of new ideas about individual rights challenged imperial legitimacy, and when empires failed to recognize these new rights, subject peoples sought sovereign independence. Combining theoretical innovation with detailed historical case studies, this book advances a new understanding of human rights and world politics, with individual rights deeply implicated in the making of the global sovereign order.
- Contents:
- The expansion of the international system
- Struggles for individual rights
- The Westphalian settlement
- The independence of Spanish America
- Post-1945 decolonization.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-139-89024-7
- 1-107-28943-2
- 1-107-28900-9
- 0-521-67448-4
- 1-107-29005-8
- 1-107-29389-8
- 1-139-04652-7
- 1-107-29110-0
- 1-107-29282-4
- OCLC:
- 854975202
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