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Protecting Human Rights - A Comparative Study (Hardcover, Library-specific retail ed)
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Protecting Human Rights - A Comparative Study (Hardcover, Library-specific retail ed)
Series: Advancing Human Rights series
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Ours has been called a global "age of rights," an era in which
respect for human rights is considered the highest aspiration of
the international democratic community. Since the United Nation's
1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a wide variety of
protections-civil, political, economic, social, and cultural-have
been given legal validation as countries ratify treaties,
participate in intergovernmental organizations, and establish human
rights tribunals and truth and reconciliation commissions. Yet
notable human rights failures have marred the post-Declaration era,
including ongoing state violence toward citizens, the selectivity
of humanitarian intervention (evidenced by the international
community's failure to respond in Rwanda), and recent legislation
in advanced democracies that trades some rights for protection
against the threat of terrorism. How are we to reconcile the
language of rights with the reality? Do we live in an age of rights
after all? In Protecting Human Rights, Todd Landman provides a
unique quantitative analysis of the marked gap between the
principle and practice of human rights. Applying theories and
methods from the fields of international law, international
relations, and comparative politics, Landman examines data from 193
countries over 25 years (1976-2000) to assess the growth of the
international human rights regime, the effect of law on actual
protection, and global variation in human rights norms. Landman
contends that human rights foreign policy remains based more on
geo-strategic interest than moral internationalism. He argues that
the influence human rights ideals have begun to have on states
cannot be separated from the broader impact of socioeconomic
changes that swept the globe in the late twentieth century. Landman
concludes that international law alone will not suffice to fully
protect human rights-it must be accompanied by democratic
government, effective conflict resolution, and just economic
systems.
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