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| Title | : | The Endtimes of Human Rights |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.52 (819 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1501700669 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-29 |
| Language | : | English |
For historians of missions, it shows that Americans were deeply involved in global missionary work well before they had officially crafted an overseas empire. Stephen Hopgood challenges all fans of human rights with the prospect that the human rights movement is collapsing in its moral authority. This is a disturbing read, the anger driving the narrative, the passion evident in every paragraph." Conor Gearty, Times Higher Education Supplement"In this scathing indictment of the human rights movement, Stephen Hopgood contends that it has sold out its moral clarity for an alliance with interventionist liberal states. Some will object furiously to Hopgood's argument. 1). But all will be provoked, and it will be impossible to think about international human rights in the same way."Michael Barnett, George Washington University, author of Empire of Humanity: A History of Humanitarianism "This barnstormer of a book is both rigorous and a page-turner, both provocative and ca
Stephen Hopgood isProfessor of International Relations, SOAS, University of London. He is the author of Keepers of the Flame: Understanding Amnesty International and The Endtimes of Human Rights, both from Cornell, and American Foreign Environmental Policy and the Power of the State.
The obsolescence of that founding purpose in the modern globalized world has, Hopgood asserts, transformed the institutions created to perform it, such as the International Committee of the Red Cross and recently the International Criminal Court, into self-perpetuating structures of intermittent power and authority that mask their lack of democratic legitimacy and systematic ineffectiveness. They were an antidote to a troubling contradictionthe coexistence of a belief in progress with horrifying violence and growing inequality. Human rights were the product of a particular worldview (Western European and Christian) and specific historical moments (humanitarianism in the nineteenth century, the aftermath of the Holocaust). Whether it is the increase in deadly attacks on aid workers, the torture and 'disappearing' of al-Qaeda suspects by American officials, the flouting of international law by states such as Sri Lanka and Sudan, or the shambles of the Khmer Rouge tribunal in Phnom Penh, the prospect of one world under secular human rights law is receding. Hopgood makes a plea for a new understanding of where hope lies for human rights, a plea that mou
For human rights history, read this book. The book arrived promptly and in fine shape. I am researching human rights at the moment and this is the best book I've found so far.. Demise of the Human Rights Regime The basic tenet of that book is the distinction between human rights and Human Rights. The first can be full truth, the second fails the test of truthfulness. The capitalized Human Rights Regime is the collective of declarations, conventions and their official international and national institutions. It is a phenomenon that grew quickly from the 1970s and, according to Hopgood, is deemed to expire. For good reason, he thinks. Hopgood's book abounds with examples of how Human Rights Regimists invented norms and institutions that were supposed to 'deal' with gruesome si. "Five Stars" according to Amazon Customer. excelente!!!!
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