Human Rights in International Relations (Themes in International Relations)

✍ Scribed by David P. Forsythe

• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 257
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This new textbook provides an introduction to human rights in international relations at the turn of the twenty-first century. It examines the policy-making process that establishes and tries to apply human rights norms through the UN, regional organizations, state foreign policy, human rights groups, and transnational corporations. It documents the many changes in international human rights during the past half-century, and considers the future of universal human rights. Containing chapter-by-chapter guides to further reading and discussion questions, this book will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students of human rights, and their teachers.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 7
Part I The foundations......Page 11
1 Introduction: human rights in international relations......Page 13
2 Establishing human rights standards......Page 38
Part II Implementing human rights standards......Page 63
3 Global applications of human rights norms......Page 65
4 International criminal courts......Page 94
5 Regional applications of human rights norms......Page 120
6 Human rights and foreign policy in comparative perspective......Page 149
7 Non-governmental organizations and human rights......Page 173
8 Transnational corporations and human rights......Page 201
Part III Conclusion......Page 225
9 The politics of liberalism in a realist world......Page 227
Index......Page 248