The Human Rights State : : Justice Within and Beyond Sovereign Nations /

The Human Rights State : : Justice Within and Beyond Sovereign Nations / / Benjamin Gregg.

The nation state operates on a logic of exclusion: no state can offer citizenship and legal rights to all comers. From the logic of exclusion a state derives its sovereign power. Yet this exclusivity undermines the project of advancing human rights globally. That project operates on a logic of inclu...

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Gregg, Benjamin,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. A Project for the Free Embrace of Human Rights
  • Part I. The Human Rights State: Politics by Metaphor
  • Chapter 1. Human Rights as Metaphor
  • Chapter 2. Human Rights in a Backpack
  • Chapter 3. The Body as Human Rights Boundary
  • Part II. The Human Rights State Through Persuasion, Not Coercion
  • Chapter 4. Teaching Human Rights as a Cognitive Style
  • Chapter 5. Developing Human Rights Commitment in Post-Authoritarian Societies
  • Chapter 6. Digital Technology as Resource for the Human Rights Project
  • Part III. Defense of the Human Rights State in the Face of Challenges
  • Chapter 7. Human Rights Patriotism
  • Chapter 8. A Human Right Not to Democracy but to the Rule of Law
  • Chapter 9. Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention
  • Coda: A Community of Nation States Practicing Domestic Cosmopolitanism
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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