International Human Rights in the 21st Century: Protecting the Rights of Groups - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0742523535 ISBN 13: 9780742523531

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003

Synopsis

The book emphasizes the long-term efforts to stabilize weak or failing societies and to develop democratic governments on which the protection of human rights ultimately depends.

About this title

About the Author:

Gene M. Lyons is senior fellow at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College. James Mayall is Sir Patrick Sheehy Professor of International Relations, University of Cambridge.

Review:

[E]ditors Gene M. Lyons and James Mayall state that their book may 'raise more questions than answers.' This fine volume accomplishes that superbly, and the essays included also give full play to a number of authors who seek to explore group rights theory as it affects different groups. (Human Rights and Human Welfare)

This fine volume focuses on group rights, a field that is attracting new attention in the post-Cold War era. The arguments are philosophically stimulating, draw on an impressive history of ideas, and place human rights in context relative to other factors driving international relations. The authors score a major achievement.... (David Malone, president, International Peace Academy, New York)

This fine volume focuses on group rights, a field that is attracting new attention in the post-Cold War era. The arguments arephilosophically stimulating, draw on an impressive history of ideas, and place human rights in context relative to other factors driving international relations. The authors score a major achievement. (David Malone, president, International Peace Academy, New York)

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0742523535
• ISBN 13: 9780742523531
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Lyons Gene M., Mayall James