Human Rights and Global Diversity

✍ Scribed by Peter Jones, Simon Caney

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 179
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This examination of global society focuses on its conflict with local societies and questions whether the human race should be treated as belonging to a single global community. It considers the universality of human rights and its conflict with group claims to self-determination

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction / Peter Jones and Simon Caney -- Cosmopolitanism, world citizenship, and global civil society / Chris Brown -- Human rights and diverse cultures: continuity or discontinuity? / Peter Jones -- Human rights, compatibility, and diverse cultures / Simon Caney -- The pendulum theory of individual, communal, and minority rights / Tom Hadden -- The question of self-determination and its implications for normative international theory / Kimberly Hutchings -- Derrida and the Heidegger controversy: global friendship against racism / Mark Bevir -- Humanitarian vigilantes or legal entrepreneurs: enforcing human rights in international society / Nicholas J. Wheeler

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