The endtimes of human rights
"In a book that is at once passionate and provocative, Stephen Hopgood argues, against the conventional wisdom, that the idea of universal human rights has become not only ill adapted to current realities but also overambitious and unresponsive. A shift in the global balance of power away from...
| Main Author: | Hopgood, Stephen, |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2013.
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| Physical Description: |
xv, 255 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
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| Summary: |
"In a book that is at once passionate and provocative, Stephen Hopgood argues, against the conventional wisdom, that the idea of universal human rights has become not only ill adapted to current realities but also overambitious and unresponsive. A shift in the global balance of power away from the United States further undermines the foundations on which the global human rights regime is based. American decline exposes the contradictions, hypocrisies and weaknesses behind the attempt to enforce this regime around the world and opens the way for resurgent religious and sovereign actors to challenge human rights"--Publisher website. |
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| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Moral authority in a godless world -- The church of human rights -- The Holocaust metanarrative -- The moral architecture of suffering -- Human rights and American power -- Human rights empire -- Of gods and nations -- The NeoWestphalian world. "In a book that is at once passionate and provocative, Stephen Hopgood argues, against the conventional wisdom, that the idea of universal human rights has become not only ill adapted to current realities but also overambitious and unresponsive. A shift in the global balance of power away from the United States further undermines the foundations on which the global human rights regime is based. American decline exposes the contradictions, hypocrisies and weaknesses behind the attempt to enforce this regime around the world and opens the way for resurgent religious and sovereign actors to challenge human rights"--Publisher website. |
| Physical Description: |
xv, 255 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780801452376 0801452376 |