TY  - BOOK
AU  - Donnelly,Jack
TI  - Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice
SN  - 9780801467493
AV  - JC571 
U1  - 323 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Cultural relativism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice -- Contents -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Introduction -- Part I. Toward a Theory of Human Rights -- 1. The Concept of Human Rights -- 1. How Rights Work -- 2. Special Features of Human Rights -- 3. Human Nature and Human Rights -- 4. Human Rights and Related Practices -- 5. Analytic and Substantive Theories -- 6. The Failure of Foundational Appeals -- 7. Coping with Contentious Foundations -- 2. The Universal Declaration Model -- 1. The Universal Declaration -- 2. The Universal Declaration Model -- 3. Human Dignity and Human Rights -- 4. Individual Rights -- 5. Interdependence and Indivisibility -- 6. The State and International Human Rights -- 7. Respecting, Protecting, and Providing Human Rights -- 8. Realizing Human Rights and Human Dignity -- 3. Economic Rights and Group Rights -- 1. The Status of Economic and Social Rights -- 2. Group Rights and Human Rights -- 4. Equal Concern and Respect -- 1. Hegemony and Settled Norms -- 2. An Overlapping Consensus on International Human Rights -- 3. Moral Theory , Political Theory, and Human Rights -- 4. Equal Concern and Respect -- 5. Toward a Liberal Theory of Human Rights -- 6. Consensus: Overlapping but Bounded -- Part II. The Universality and Relativity -- 5. A Brief History of Human Rights -- 1. Politics and Justice in the Premodern Non-Western World -- 2. The  Premodern West -- 3. The  Modern Invention of Human Rights -- 4. The  American and French Revolutions -- 5. Approaching the Universal Declaration -- 6. Expanding the Subjects and Substance of Human Rights -- 6. The  Relative Universality of Human Rights -- 1. "Universal" and "Relative" -- 2. The  Universality of Internationally Recognized Human Rights -- 3. Three  Levels of Universality and Particularity -- 4. Relative Universality: A Multidimensional Perspective; 7. Universality in a World of Particularities -- 1. Culture and the Relativity of Human Rights -- 2. Advocating Universality in a World of Particularities -- Part III. Human Rights and Human Dignity -- 8. Dignity: Particularistic and Universalistic Conceptions in the West -- 1. Dignitas: The  Roman Roots of Dignity -- 2. Biblical Conceptions: Kavod and Imago Dei -- 3. Kant -- 4. Rights and Dignity in the West -- 5. Dignity and the Foundations of Human Rights -- 9. Humanity, Dignity, and Politics in Confucian China -- 1. Cosmology and Ethics -- 2. Confucians and the Early Empires -- 3. "Neo-Confucianism" and Song Imperial Rule -- 4. Twentieth-Century Encounters with "Rights" -- 5. Human Rights and Asian Values -- 10. Humans and Society in Hindu South Asia -- 1. Cosmology -- 2. Social Philosophy -- 3. Caste -- 4. Hindu Universalism -- 5. Opposition to Caste Discrimination -- 6. Hinduism and Human Rights in Contemporary India -- Part IV. Human Rights and International Action -- 11. International Human Rights Regimes -- 1. The  Global Human Rights Regime -- 2. Political Foundations of the Global Regime -- 3. Regional Human Rights Regimes -- 4. Single-Issue Human Rights Regimes -- 5. Assessing Multilateral Human Rights Mechanisms -- 6. The  Evolution of Human Rights Regimes -- 12. Human Rights and Foreign Policy -- 1. Human Rights and the National Interest -- 2. International Human Rights and National Identity -- 3. Means and Mechanisms of Bilateral Action -- 4. The  Aims of Human Rights Policy -- 5. Foreign Policy and Human Rights Policy -- 6. The  Limits of International Action -- Appendix: Arguments against International Human Rights Policies -- Part V. Contemporary Issues -- 13. Human Rights, Democracy, and Development -- 1. The  Contemporary Language of Legitimacy -- 2. Defining  Democracy -- 3.  Democracy and Human Rights -- 4. Defining  Development; 5. Development-Rights Tradeoffs -- 6. Development and Civil and Political Rights -- 7. Markets and Economic and Social Rights -- 8. The  Liberal Democratic Welfare State -- 14. The  West and Economic and Social Rights -- 1. The  Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- 2. Domestic Western Practice -- 3. The  International Human Rights Covenants -- 4. Functional and Regional Organizations -- 5. Further Evidence of Western Support -- 6. Understanding the Sources of the Myth -- 7. Why Does It Matter? -- 15. Humanitarian Intervention against Genocide -- 1. Intervention and International Law -- 2. Humanitarian Intervention and International Law -- 3. The  Moral Standing of the State -- 4. Politics, Partisanship, and International Order -- 5. Changing Conceptions of Security and Sovereignty -- 6. Justifying the Anti-genocide Norm -- 7. Changing Legal Practices -- 8. "Justifying" Humanitarian Intervention -- 9. Mixed Motives and Consistency -- 10. Politics and the Authority to Intervene -- 11. Judging the Kosovo Intervention -- 12. Darfur and the Future of Humanitarian Intervention -- 16. Nondiscrimination for All: Th e Case of Sexual Minorities -- 1. The  Right to Nondiscrimination -- 2. Nondiscrimination and Political Struggle -- 3. Discrimination against Sexual Minorities -- 4. Nature, (Im)morality, and Public Morals -- 5. Strategies for Inclusion -- 6. Paths of Incremental Change -- References -- Index
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