Universal human rights in theory and practice

Abstract

Preface to the Third Edition Introduction Part I. Toward a Theory of Human 1. The Concept of Human How Work Special Features of Human Human Nature and Human Human and Related Practices Analytic and Substantive Theories The Failure of Foundational Appeals Coping with Contentious Foundations 2. The Declaration Model The Declaration The Declaration Model Human Dignity and Human Individual Interdependence and Indivisibility The State and International Human Respecting, Protecting, and Providing Human Realizing Human and Human Dignity 3. Economic and Group The Status of Economic and Social Group and Human 4. Equal Concern and Respect Hegemony and Settled Norms An Overlapping Consensus on International Human Moral Theory, Political Theory, and Human Equal Concern and Respect Toward a Liberal Theory of Human Consensus: Overlapping but Bounded Part II. The Universality and Relativity of Human 5. A Brief History of Human Politics and Justice in the Premodern Non-Western World The Premodern West The Modern Invention of Human The American and French Revolutions Approaching the Declaration Expanding the Subjects and Substance of Human 6. The Universality of Human Universal and Relative The Universality of Internationally Recognized Human Three Levels of Universality and Particularity Universality: A Multidimensional Perspective 7. Universality in a World of Particularities Culture and the Relativity of Human Advocating Universality in a World of Particularities Part III. Human and Human Dignity 8. Dignity: Particularistic and Universalistic Conceptions in the West Dignitas: The Roman Roots of Dignity Biblical Conceptions: Kavod and Imago Dei Kant and Dignity in the West Dignity and the Foundations of Human 9. Humanity, Dignity, and Politics in Confucian China Cosmology and Ethics Confucians and the Early Empires Neo-Confucianism and Song Imperial Rule Twentieth-Century Encounters with Rights Human and Asian Values 10. Humans and Society in Hindu South Asia Cosmology Social Philosophy Caste Hindu Universalism Opposition to Caste Discrimination Hinduism and Human in Contemporary India Part IV. Human and International Action 11. International Human Regimes The Global Human Regime Political Foundations of the Global Regime Regional Human Regimes Single-Issue Human Regimes Assessing Multilateral Human Mechanisms The Evolution of Human Regimes 12. Human and Foreign Policy Human and the National Interest International Human and National Identity Means and Mechanisms of Bilateral Action The Aims of Human Policy Foreign Policy and Human Policy The Limits of International Action Appendix: Arguments against International Human Policies Part V. Contemporary Issues 13. Human Rights, Democracy, and Development The Contemporary Language of Legitimacy Defining Democracy Democracy and Human Defining Development Development-Rights Tradeoffs Development and Civil and Political Markets and Economic and Social The Liberal Democratic Welfare State 14. The West and Economic and Social The Declaration of Human Domestic Western Practice The International Human Covenants Functional and Regional Organizations Further Evidence of Western Support Understanding the Sources of the Myth Why Does It Matter? 15. Humanitarian Intervention against Genocide Intervention and International Law Humanitarian Intervention and International Law The Moral Standing of the State Politics, Partisanship, and International Order Changing Conceptions of Security and Sovereignty the Anti-genocide Norm Changing Legal Practices Justifying Humanitarian Intervention Mixed Motives and Consistency Politics and the Authority to Intervene Judging the Kosovo Intervention Darfur and the Future of Humanitarian Intervention 16. Nondiscrimination for All: The Case of Sexual Minorities The Right to Nondiscrimination Nondiscrimination and Political Struggle Discrimination against Sexual Minorities Nature, (Im)morality, and Public Morals Strategies for Inclusion Paths of Incremental Change References Index