Book Description
Shows the central role struggles over individual rights played in the development of today's global system of sovereign states.
Author : Christian Reus-Smit
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 10,2 MB
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0521857775
Shows the central role struggles over individual rights played in the development of today's global system of sovereign states.
Author : Kate Parlett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 12,71 MB
Release : 2011-04-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 1139499971
Kate Parlett's study of the individual in the international legal system examines the way in which individuals have come to have a certain status in international law, from the first treaties conferring rights and capacities on individuals through to the present day. The analysis cuts across fields including human rights law, international investment law, international claims processes, humanitarian law and international criminal law in order to draw conclusions about structural change in the international legal system. By engaging with much new literature on non-state actors in international law, she seeks to dispel myths about state-centrism and the direction in which the international legal system continues to evolve.
Author : Eric D. Weitz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 36,4 MB
Release : 2021-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0691205140
A global history of human rights in a world of nations that grant rights to some while denying them to others Once dominated by vast empires, the world is now divided into some 200 independent countries that proclaim human rights—a transformation that suggests that nations and human rights inevitably develop together. But the reality is far more problematic, as Eric Weitz shows in this compelling global history of the fate of human rights in a world of nation-states. Through vivid histories from virtually every continent, A World Divided describes how, since the eighteenth century, nationalists have established states that grant human rights to some people while excluding others, setting the stage for many of today’s problems, from the refugee crisis to right-wing nationalism. Only the advance of international human rights will move us beyond a world divided between those who have rights and those who don't.
Author : Christopher A. Casey
Publisher :
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 16,88 MB
Release : 2020
Category :
ISBN : 9781108746557
It is a fundamental term of the social contract that people trade allegiance for protection. In the nineteenth century, as millions of people made their way around the world, they entangled the world in web of allegiance that had enormous political consequences. Nationality was increasingly difficult to define. Just who was a national in a world where millions lived well beyond the borders of their sovereign state? As the nineteenth century gave way to the twentieth, jurists and policymakers began to think of ways to cut the web of obligation that had enabled world politics. They proposed to modernize international law to include subjects other than the state. Many of these experiments failed. But, by the mid-twentieth century, an international legal system predicated upon absolute universality and operated by intergovernmental organizations came to the fore. Under this system, individuals gradually became subjects of international law outside of their personal citizenship, culminating with the establishment of international courts of human rights after the Second World War.
Author : Anne Peters
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 645 pages
File Size : 27,53 MB
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107164303
Beyond Human Rights, previously published in German and now available in English, is a historical and doctrinal study about the legal status of individuals in international law.
Author : R. J. Vincent
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 21,2 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521339957
Part 1. Theory.
Author : Christopher A. Casey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 13,86 MB
Release : 2020-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1108489451
A broad-ranging and ambitious study of the changing relationships between countries and their nationals abroad, and the impact that mass migration played in shaping modern international law and politics.
Author : Jack Donnelly
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 28,18 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780801487767
(unseen), $12.95. Donnelly explicates and defends an account of human rights as universal rights. Considering the competing claims of the universality, particularity, and relativity of human rights, he argues that the historical contingency and particularity of human rights is completely compatible with a conception of human rights as universal moral rights, and thus does not require the acceptance of claims of cultural relativism. The book moves between theoretical argument and historical practice. Rigorous and tightly-reasoned, material and perspectives from many disciplines are incorporated. Paper edition Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Beth A. Simmons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 39,79 MB
Release : 2009-10-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521885108
Beth Simmons demonstrates through a combination of statistical analysis and case studies that the ratification of treaties generally leads to better human rights practices. She argues that international human rights law should get more practical and rhetorical support from the international community as a supplement to broader efforts to address conflict, development, and democratization.
Author : Hurst Hannum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 45,44 MB
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108417485
Focuses on understanding human rights as they really are and their proper role in international affairs.