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Human Rights and Global Diversity
About this book
This examination of global society focuses on its conflict with local societies and questions whether the human race should be treated as belonging to a single global community. It considers the universality of human rights and its conflict with group claims to self-determination.
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Index
Abbott, Diane 152
abortion 46–8, 114, 115
Africa 17, 23
alienation 14–15
alterity 126, 128, 131, 132, 134, 135
see also other
American Declaration of Independence 78, 82
Amnesty International 140
An-Na’im, Abdullahi 49, 54, 58, 65, 71
Annan, Kofi 149
arbitration: international 16–17
Argentina 156, 158
Aristotle 7, 55
Augustine, Saint 57
Aurelius, Marcus 7, 8
autonomy 14, 69, 99, 103, 110, 111, 133
see also self-determination: individual
Bahrain 156
Bangladesh 17
see also East Pakistan
Barber, Benjamin 19
Being 122–3, 124, 125, 126, 127, 129–30
Belarus 154
Belief: freedom of 46
Bell, Daniel 54, 65
Bevir, Mark 4
Blair, Tony 141, 151, 157
Bosnia 141
Britain 148, 149, 150, 151–2, 153, 157
see also United Kingdom
Brown, Chris 2, 140, 141, 153
Brownlie, Ian 145
Buchanan, Allen 69
Buddhism: 55
and human rights 66–70
Theravada 3, 52, 64–6, 69
Bull, Hedley 140, 144
Burma 64
Byers, Michael 15...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Cosmopolitanism, World Citizenship and Global Civil Society
- Human Rights and Diverse Cultures: Continuity or Discontinuity?
- Human Rights, Compatibility and Diverse Cultures
- The Pendulum Theory of Individual, Communal and Minority Rights
- The Question of Self-Determination and its Implications for Normative International Theory
- Derrida and the Heidegger Controversy: Global Friendship Against Racism
- Humanitarian Vigilantes or Legal Entrepreneurs: Enforcing Human Rights in International Society
- Abstracts
- Notes on Contributors
- Index