Achieving human rights /

"Richard Falk once again captures our attention with a nuanced analysis of what we need to do - at the personal level as well as state actions - to refocus our pursuit of human rights in a post-9/11 world. From democratic global governance to the costs of the Iraq War, the preeminent role of th...

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Main Author: Falk, Richard A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • Toward a necessary utopianism: democratic global governance
  • The power of rights and the rights of power: what future for human rights?
  • Orientalism and international law
  • Toward global democracy
  • Citizenship and globalization
  • The Holocaust and the emergence of international human rights
  • The Pinochet moment: whither universal jurisdiction?
  • Genocide at the world court: the case against Serbia
  • A descending spiral
  • Encroaching on the rule of law: counter-terrorist justifications
  • Humanitarian intervention
  • Crimes, lies, and law: human rights in adversity
  • Humanity in question
  • The ideal of the citizen pilgrim.