Synopsis
Rethinking Human Rights brings together a team of authors from fields as diverse as political theory, peace studies, international law and media studies concerned with a new international agenda of human rights promotion. The collection presents an original and tightly argued critique of current trends and deals with a range of questions concerning the implication of human rights approaches for humanitarian aid, state sovereignty, international law, democracy and political autonomy.
Contents
Introduction
Rethinking Human Rights - David Chandler
Part One: Universal Rights?
1 Conditioning the Right to Humanitarian Aid? Human Rights and the 'New Humanitarianism' - Fiona Fox
2 Human Rights and the Rule of Law: Achieving Universal Justice? - John Laughland
3 The International Children's Rights Regime - Vanessa Pupavac
Part Two: Rights of Empowerment?
4 Devolving Power? Human Rights and State Regulation in Northern Ireland - Chris Gilligan
5 Empowering the Poorest? The World Bank and the 'Voices of the Poor' - John Pender
6 The Limits of Human Rights and Cosmopolitan Citizenship - David Chandler
7 Humanitarian Intervention and the Recasting of International Law - Jon Holbrook
Part Three: Human-Centred Rights?
8 New Wars and Old Wars? The Lessons of Rwanda - Barrie Collins
9 Moral Combat; Advocacy Journalists and the New Humanitarianism - Philip Hammond
10 Morality's Avenging Angels: the New Humanitarian Crusaders - Edward S. Herman and David Peterson
Reviews
Aidan Hehir, International Affairs, Vol. 80, No. 1, Jan 2004. Click here.
James Heartfield,
Spiked, 27 March 2003. Click
here.
