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Human Rights on Trial
A Genealogy of the Critique of Human Rights
Av Justine Lacroix, Jean-Yves Pranchère
Häftad, 2018
429 kr
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The first systematic analysis of the arguments made against human rights from the French Revolution to the present day. Through the writings of Edmund Burke, Jeremy Bentham, Auguste Comte, Louis de Bonald, Joseph de Maistre, Karl Marx, Carl Schmitt and Hannah Arendt, the authors explore the …
Human Rights in the Twentieth Century
Häftad, 2010
569 kr
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Has there always been an inalienable 'right to have rights' as part of the human condition, as Hannah Arendt famously argued? The contributions to this volume examine how human rights came to define the bounds of universal morality in the course of the political crises and conflicts of the …
Human Rights in the Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 2010
1254 kr
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Has there always been an inalienable 'right to have rights' as part of the human condition, as Hannah Arendt famously argued? The contributions to this volume examine how human rights came to define the bounds of universal morality in the course of the political crises and conflicts of the …
The World Reimagined
Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 2016
582 kr
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Concerns about rights in the United States have a long history, but the articulation of global human rights in the twentieth century was something altogether different. Global human rights offered individuals unprecedented guarantees beyond the nation for the protection of political, economic, …
Social Rights and the Politics of Obligation in History
Av Steven L. B. Jensen, Charles Walton
Häftad, 2025
519 kr
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This pioneering volume explores the long-neglected history of social rights, from the Middle Ages to the present. It debunks the myth that social rights are 'second-generation rights' – rights that appeared after World War II as additions to a rights corpus stretching back to the Enlightenment. Not …
Red Internationalism
Anti-Imperialism and Human Rights in the Global Sixties and Seventies
Häftad, 2025
423 kr
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In Red Internationalism, Salar Mohandesi returns to the Vietnam War to offer a new interpretation of the transnational left's most transformative years. In the 1960s, radicals mobilized ideas from the early twentieth century to reinvent a critique of imperialism that promised not only to end the …
Blue Helmet Bureaucrats
United Nations Peacekeeping and the Reinvention of Colonialism, 1945-1971
Av Margot Tudor
Inbunden, 2023
1668 kr
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This history of colonial legacies in UN peacekeeping operations from 1945-1971 reveals how United Nations peacekeeping staff reconfigured the functions of global governance and sites of diplomatic power in the post-war world. Despite peacekeeping operations being criticised for their colonial …
Blue Helmet Bureaucrats
United Nations Peacekeeping and the Reinvention of Colonialism, 1945–1971
Av Margot Tudor
Häftad, 2025
504 kr
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This history of colonial legacies in UN peacekeeping operations from 1945–1971 reveals how United Nations peacekeeping staff reconfigured the functions of global governance and sites of diplomatic power in the post-war world. Despite peacekeeping operations being criticised for their colonial …
Latin America and Human Rights Politics in West Germany, 1973-1990
Inbunden, 2025
1861 kr
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In this richly detailed history, Felix Jiménez Botta traces West German mobilization against human rights abuses in Latin America in the late twentieth century. Initially in the ascendant was a market-critical vision adopted by a loose, left-leaning coalition fighting against right-wing regimes …
In Defense of Economic and Social Human Rights
An Intellectual History, 1940 to the Present
Av Christian Olaf Christiansen
Inbunden, 2025
1407 kr
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Breaking new ground in the intellectual history of economic and social human rights, Christian Olaf Christiansen traces their justification from the outset of World War II until the present day. Featuring a series of fascinating thinkers, from political scientists to Popes, this is the first book …
Population Control as a Human Right
International Law and the Global Quest to Curb Overpopulation
Av Roman Birke
Inbunden, 2025
1610 kr
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Concerns about global overpopulation spread rapidly in the 1940s and still persist today. The UN Resolution on Human Rights and Family Planning (1968) provided justifications for the argument that population growth endangered the realization of human rights and codified a right to contraception to …
Liberalism and Liberation
The World Council of Churches and the Global Politics of Human Rights
Inbunden, 2026
1853 kr
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Founded in 1948, the World Council of Churches (WCC) was an important voice for human rights during the establishment of the postwar liberal international order. Bastiaan Bouwman demonstrates how its Christian human rights advocacy underwent a dramatic change over the following decades, from its …
Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War
A Transnational History of the Helsinki Network
Inbunden, 2011
1677 kr
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Two of the most pressing questions facing international historians today are how and why the Cold War ended. Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War explores how, in the aftermath of the signing of the Helsinki Final Act in 1975, a transnational network of activists committed to human …
René Cassin and Human Rights
From the Great War to the Universal Declaration
Inbunden, 2013
1221 kr
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Through the life of one extraordinary man, this biography reveals what the term human rights meant to the men and women who endured two world wars, and how this major political and intellectual movement ultimately inspired and enshrined the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. René Cassin was a …
The Right of Self-Determination of Peoples
The Domestication of an Illusion
Inbunden, 2015
1338 kr
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The right of self-determination of peoples holds out the promise of sovereign statehood for all peoples and a domination-free international order. But it also harbors the danger of state fragmentation that can threaten international stability if claims of self-determination lead to secessions. …
Humanitarian Photography
A History
Av Heide Fehrenbach, Davide Rodogno
Inbunden, 2015
1887 kr
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For well over a century, humanitarians and their organizations have used photographic imagery and the latest media technologies to raise public awareness and funds to alleviate human suffering. This volume examines the historical evolution of what we today call 'humanitarian photography' - the …
Idealism beyond Borders
The French Revolutionary Left and the Rise of Humanitarianism, 1954-1988
Inbunden, 2015
1868 kr
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This is a major new account of how modern humanitarian action was shaped by transformations in the French intellectual and political landscape from the 1950s to the 1980s. Eleanor Davey reveals how radical left third-worldism was displaced by the 'sans-frontiériste' movement as the dominant way of …
The Emergence of Humanitarian Intervention
Ideas and Practice from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
Av Fabian Klose
Inbunden, 2015
1307 kr
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How should the international community react when a government transgresses humanitarian norms and violates the human rights of its own nationals? And where does the responsibility lie to protect people from such acts of violation? In this profound study, Fabian Klose unites a team of leading …
Cold War Germany, the Third World, and the Global Humanitarian Regime
Inbunden, 2015
1106 kr
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This book examines competition and collaboration among Western powers, the socialist bloc, and the Third World for control over humanitarian aid programs during the Cold War. Young-sun Hong's analysis reevaluates the established parameters of German history. On the one hand, global humanitarian …
The Problems of Genocide
Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression
Inbunden, 2021
1761 kr
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Genocide is not only a problem of mass death, but also of how, as a relatively new idea and law, it organizes and distorts thinking about civilian destruction. Taking the normative perspective of civilian immunity from military attack, A. Dirk Moses argues that the implicit hierarchy of …
The Biafran War and Postcolonial Humanitarianism
Spectacles of Suffering
Inbunden, 2017
1936 kr
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In the summer of 1968, audiences around the globe were shocked when newspapers and television stations confronted them with photographs of starving children in the secessionist Republic of Biafra. This global concern fundamentally changed how the Nigerian Civil War was perceived: an African civil …
The Making of International Human Rights
The 1960s, Decolonization, and the Reconstruction of Global Values
Inbunden, 2016
1593 kr
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This book fundamentally reinterprets the history of international human rights in the post-1945 era by documenting how pivotal the Global South was for their breakthrough. In stark contrast to other contemporary human rights historians who have focused almost exclusively on the 1940s and the 1970s …
Amnesty International and Human Rights Activism in Postwar Britain, 1945-1977
Av Tom Buchanan
Inbunden, 2020
1291 kr
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In this definitive new account of the emergence of human rights activism in post-war Britain, Tom Buchanan shows how disparate individuals, organisations and causes gradually came to acquire a common identity as 'human rights activists'. This was a slow process whereby a coalition of activists, …
The Care of the Witness
A Contemporary History of Testimony in Crises
Inbunden, 2016
1677 kr
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During the twentieth century, witnessing grew to be not just a widespread solution for coping with political atrocities but also an intricate problem. As the personal experience of victims, soldiers, and aid workers acquired unparalleled authority as a source of moral and political truth, the …
Religious Freedom and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Inbunden, 2017
1462 kr
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Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) is widely considered to be the most influential statement on religious freedom in human history. Religious Freedom and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights provides a groundbreaking account of its origins and developments, …
Sovereign Emergencies
Latin America and the Making of Global Human Rights Politics
Inbunden, 2018
1248 kr
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The concern over rising state violence, above all in Latin America, triggered an unprecedented turn to a global politics of human rights in the 1970s. Patrick William Kelly argues that Latin America played the most pivotal role in these sweeping changes, for it was both the target of human rights …
The Rights of the Roma
The Struggle for Citizenship in Postwar Czechoslovakia
Av Celia Donert
Inbunden, 2017
1643 kr
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The Rights of the Roma writes Romani struggles for citizenship into the history of human rights in socialist and post-socialist Eastern Europe. If Roma have typically appeared in human rights narratives as victims, Celia Donert here draws on extensive original research in Czech and Slovak archives, …
The Emergence of Humanitarian Intervention
Ideas and Practice from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
Av Fabian Klose
Häftad, 2018
672 kr
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How should the international community react when a government transgresses humanitarian norms and violates the human rights of its own nationals? And where does the responsibility lie to protect people from such acts of violation? In this profound study, Fabian Klose unites a team of leading …
Cold War Germany, the Third World, and the Global Humanitarian Regime
Häftad, 2017
672 kr
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This book examines competition and collaboration among Western powers, the socialist bloc, and the Third World for control over humanitarian aid programs during the Cold War. Young-sun Hong's analysis reevaluates the established parameters of German history. On the one hand, global humanitarian …
The Problems of Genocide
Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression
Häftad, 2021
503 kr
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Genocide is not only a problem of mass death, but also of how, as a relatively new idea and law, it organizes and distorts thinking about civilian destruction. Taking the normative perspective of civilian immunity from military attack, A. Dirk Moses argues that the implicit hierarchy of …
