Human rights in perspective : a global assessment : Nobel Symposium 74 / edited by Asbjørn Eide and Bernt Hagtvet.
1992
JX4263.P3 N66 1988 (Map It)
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Title
Human rights in perspective : a global assessment : Nobel Symposium 74 / edited by Asbjørn Eide and Bernt Hagtvet.
Published
Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, Mass., USA : Blackwell Business, 1992.
Call Number
JX4263.P3 N66 1988
ISBN
063117883X (acid-free paper)
Description
xviii, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)25130651
Note
Symposium held June 21-23, 1988 in Lysebu, Norway
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-315) and index.
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Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction
Pt. I
International Efforts by the UN to Protect and Encourage Respect for Human Rights: Problems and Prospects after Forty Years
1National Sovereignty and International Efforts to Realize Human Rights / Asbjorn Eide
3
Comments / Vladimir A. Kartashkin
30
2'Political' and 'Legal' Control Mechanisms: Their Competition and Coexistence / Theo van Boven
36
Comments / Torkel Opsahl
60
3The Compatibility of Regional Human Rights Systems with International Standards / Etienne-Richard Mbaya
66
Pt. II
Human Rights, World Civilizations and Indigenous Religious Traditions: Re-opening the Question of Universal Validity
4Human Rights in Comparative Civilizational Perspective / Shmuel N. Eisenstadt
93
Comments / Radhika Coomaraswamy
105
5Human Rights and the New Circle of Equity: Muslim Political Theory and the Rejection of Scepticism / Ernest Gellner
113
Comments / James Piscatori
129
6Universal Human Rights and the Cultures of Indigenous Peoples and Other Ethnic Groups: The Critical Frontier of the 1990s / Rodolfo Stavenhagen
135
7The Universality of Human Rights Revisited: Some Less Applaudable Consequences of the Human Rights Tradition / Johan Galtung
152
Pt. III
International and Domestic Socio-political and Economic Impediments to the Realization of Human Rights
8Types of Political Regimes and Respect for Human Rights: Historical and Cross-national Perspectives / Juan J. Linz
177
'Rights and Regimes': Comments / Robert E. Goodin
222
9Democracy and Human Rights under Different Conditions of Development / Robert A. Dahl
235
10Compliance with Economic and Social Human Rights: Realistic Evaluations and Monitoring in the Light of Immediate Obligations / Bard-A. Andreassen Alan G. Smith Hugo Stokke
252
11The Structure of Dominance in the International Geo-economic System and the Prospects for Human Rights Realization / Susan George
268
Notes
279
Index of Names
316