International human rights / Jack Donnelly.
1993
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Title
International human rights / Jack Donnelly.
Published
Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1993.
Call Number
JX4263.P3 D753 1993
ISBN
0813381819 (alk. paper)
0813381827 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0813381827 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Description
xvi, 206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)27677404
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-194) and index.
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Table of Contents
List of Tables and Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Acronyms
Introduction: A Note to the Reader
1
1
Human Rights as an Issue in World Politics
5
The Emergence of International Human Rights Norms
6
From Cold War to Covenants
7
The 1970s: From Standard Setting to Monitoring
11
The 1980s: Further Growth and Institutionalization
14
2
Theories of Human Rights
19
The Nature of Human Rights
19
The Source or Justification of Human Rights
21
Lists of Human Rights
24
Human Rights and the Society of States
28
Realism and Human Rights
32
Cultural Relativism and Universal Human Rights
34
3
The Domestic Politics of Human Rights: The Case of the Southern Cone
39
Politics Before the Coups
40
Torture and Disappearances
41
The National Security Doctrine
44
Human Rights NGOs
47
The Collapse of Military Rule
50
Nunca Mas: Settling Accounts with Torturers and the Past
51
4
The Multilateral Politics of Human Rights
57
The United Nations Commission on Human Rights
57
The General Assembly and the Human Rights Committee
63
Single-Issue Human Rights Regimes
66
Workers' Rights
67
Racial Discrimination
69
Apartheid
69
Women's Rights
76
Torture
77
Assessing International Human Rights Reporting Systems
79
Regional Human Rights Regimes
82
Europe
82
The Americas
85
Africa, Asia, and the Middle East
90
The Helsinki Process
93
5
Human Rights and Foreign Policy
99
Central Issues in U.S. International Human Rights Policy
99
Central America and U.S. Human Rights Policy
105
The United States and the Southern Cone
117
U.S. Policy Toward South Africa
120
Other Western Approaches to International Human Rights
125
Explaining Differences in International Human Rights Policies
129
6
International Human Rights in a Post-Cold War World
133
Ideology and Intervention
134
Power and Interdependence
135
The Gulf War: Continuity in the Midst of Change
139
Multilateral Human Rights Regimes in the 1990s
141
Liberalization, Democratization, and Rights-Protective Regimes
145
Old Habits in New Democracies: Learning to Live with Limits
149
Nationalism and Human Rights
152
Market-Oriented Reforms, Economic Crisis, and Economic and Social Rights
155
International Human Rights Policy in a New World Order
159
Appendix: Universal Declaration of Human Rights
165
Discussion Questions
169
Notes
177
Suggested Readings
187
Glossary
195
Chronology
199
About the Book and Author
201
Index
203