The Persistent Power of Human Rights
Title | The Persistent Power of Human Rights PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Risse |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 373 |
Release | 2013-03-07 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1107028930 |
This book offers a unique combination of quantitative and qualitative research arguing for the persistent power of human rights norms.
China and the International Human Rights Regime
Title | China and the International Human Rights Regime PDF eBook |
Author | Rana Siu Inboden |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2021-03-18 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1108898319 |
Rana Siu Inboden examines China's role in the international human rights regime between 1982 and 2017 and, through this lens, explores China's rising position in the world. Focusing on three major case studies – the drafting and adoption of the Convention against Torture and the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, the establishment of the UN Human Rights Council, and the International Labour Organization's Conference Committee on the Application of Standards – Inboden shows China's subtle yet persistent efforts to constrain the international human rights regime. Based on a range of documentary and archival research, as well as extensive interview data, Inboden provides fresh insights into the motivations and influences driving China's conduct and explores China's rising position as a global power.
The Power of Human Rights
Title | The Power of Human Rights PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Risse |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 1999-08-05 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780521658829 |
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World Report 2019
Title | World Report 2019 PDF eBook |
Author | Human Rights Watch |
Publisher | Seven Stories Press |
Pages | 847 |
Release | 2019-02-05 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1609808851 |
The best country-by-country assessment of human rights. The human rights records of more than ninety countries and territories are put into perspective in Human Rights Watch's signature yearly report. Reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken by Human Rights Watch staff, in close partnership with domestic human rights activists, the annual World Report is an invaluable resource for journalists, diplomats, and citizens, and is a must-read for anyone interested in the fight to protect human rights in every corner of the globe.
Disciplining the Poor
Title | Disciplining the Poor PDF eBook |
Author | Joe Soss |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 2011-11-30 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0226768767 |
This volume lays out the underlying logic of contemporary poverty governance in the United States. The authors argue that poverty governance has been transformed in the United States by two significant developments.
Human Rights and Memory
Title | Human Rights and Memory PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Levy |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0271037385 |
"Examines the foundations of human rights, how their political and cultural validation in a global context is posing challenges to nation-state sovereignty, and how they become an integral part of international relations and are institutionalized into domestic legal and political practices"--Provided by publisher.
The Power of Human Rights/The Human Rights of Power
Title | The Power of Human Rights/The Human Rights of Power PDF eBook |
Author | Louiza Odysseos |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 2018-10-11 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 135187019X |
The contributions to this volume eschew the long-held approach of either dismissing human rights as politically compromised or glorifying them as a priori progressive in enabling resistance. Drawing on plural social theoretic and philosophical literatures – and a multiplicity of empirical domains – they illuminate the multi-layered and intricate relationship of human rights and power. They highlight human rights’ incitement of new subjects and modes of political action, marked by an often unnoticed duality and indeterminacy. Epistemologically distancing themselves from purely deductive, theory-driven approaches, the contributors explore these linkages through historically specific rights struggles. This, in turn, substantiates the commitment to avoid reifying the ‘Third World’ as merely the terrain of ‘fieldwork’, proposing it, instead, as a legitimate and necessary site of theorising. This book was originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.