The sovereignty of human rights / Patrick Macklem.
2015
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Title
The sovereignty of human rights / Patrick Macklem.
Published
Oxford [UK] ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Call Number
K3240 .M3215 2015
ISBN
9780190267315 ((hardback) : alk. paper)
0190267313 ((hardback) : alk. paper)
0190267313 ((hardback) : alk. paper)
Description
x, 259 pages ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)903812782
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-245) and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
1.
Field Missions
1
Human Rights as Moral Concepts
3
Human Rights as Political Concepts
13
Human Rights as Legal Concepts
18
The Plan of the Book
26
2.
Sovereignty and Structure
29
Sovereignty and Its Exercise
31
Between the National and International
37
Sovereignty and Its Distribution
45
3.
Human Rights: Three Generations or One?
51
Generations as Chronological Categories
52
Generations as Analytical Categories
58
Civil and Political Rights as Monitors of Sovereignty's Exercise
64
Social and Economic Rights as Monitors of Sovereignty's Exercise
67
4.
International Law at Work
73
Labor Rights as Instrumental Rights
76
Labor Rights as Universal Rights
84
Labor Rights and the Structure of International Law
95
5.
The Ambiguous Appeal of Minority Rights
103
The Moral Ambiguities of Minority Rights
105
The Political Ambiguities of Minority Rights
117
The Interdependence of Sovereignty and Minority Protection
124
6.
International Indigenous Recognition
133
Indigenous Territories and the Acquisition of Sovereignty
136
Indigenous Recognition and the International Labor Organization
141
Indigenous Recognition and the United Nations
152
The Purpose of International Indigenous Rights
156
7.
Self Determination in Three Movements
163
Self-Determination and the Legality of Colonialism
165
The Many Paradoxes of Self-Determination
174
Bridging International Law and Distributive Justice
182
8.
Global Poverty and the Right to Development
185
The Emergence of the Right
188
Implementing the Right
198
From Global Poverty to International Law
206
The Right to Development and the Rise and Fall of Colonialism
217
Bibliography
225
Index
247