Written some fifty years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, this book shows that the struggle for a fuller realization of these rights is far from over. It maps out the international human rights agenda as it stands at the end of the 20th century, focusing on four interrelated themes. The first concerns the conceptual development of human rights, the second looks at human rights in the Asia Pacific region, the third considers human rights in a post-Cold-War environment and the fourth assesses the protection and monitoring of human rights.

For much of the post war era, the substance and scope of international security was defined by the parameters of the Cold War. But the end of the Cold War has created a new global context. This text seeks to map out the nature of post Cold War security by exploring the patterns of international conflict, weighing non state challenges to security, examining inter state cooperation in the security field and evaluating the security dynamics of the Asia Pacific region.