Negotiating sovereignty and human rights: actors and issues in contemporary human rights politics/

Other Authors: Shawki, Noha, Cox, Michaelene
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, c2009
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Table of Contents:
  • Redefining sovereignty : humanitarianism's challenge to sovereign immunity / Anne L. Clunan
  • Sovereignty transformed? The role of national human rights institutions / Sonia Cardenas
  • A new actor in human rights politics? Transgovernmental networks of national human rights institutions / Noha Shawki
  • Universalism meets sovereignty at the International Criminal Court / Benjamin N. Schiff
  • The responsibility to protect : embracing sovereignty and human rights / Cristina G. Badescu
  • Human rights and soft law : alternative paths for new challenges / Daniel B. Braaten
  • Judging the truth : the contributions of truth commissions in post-conflict environments / Eric Brahm
  • Documenting human rights abuses among the diaspora : lessons learned from the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Patricia B. Minikon and Susan Shepler
  • Viewing the Millennium Development Goals through prisms of IR theory : an intersection of human rights and state interests / Michaelene Cox
  • Human rights, glocal ecopolitics, and contested landscapes of sovereignty / Peter J. Stoett
  • The transnational effort for disability rights : the marriage of disability rights to human rights / Kenneth R. Rutherford
  • Small arms, sovereign states and human rights / Suzette R. Grillot.