American Exceptionalism and Human Rights / / ed. by Michael Ignatieff.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Hoffmann, Stanley,; Hongju Koh, Harold,; Ignatieff, Michael,; Kahn, Paul W.,; Michelman, Frank I .,; Moravcsik, Andrew,; Ruggie, John Gerard,; Schauer, Frederick,; Slaughter, Anne-Marie,; Steiker, Carol S .,; Sunstein, Cass R.,
• HerausgeberIn: Ignatieff, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.) :; 1 table.

With the 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq, the most controversial question in world politics fast became whether the United States stands within the order of international law or outside it. Does America still play by the rules it helped create? American Exceptionalism and Human Right...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Chapter 1. Introduction: American Exceptionalism and Human Rights
• Part I. The Varieties of Exceptionalism
• Chapter 2. The Exceptional First Amendment
• Chapter 3. Capital Punishment and American Exceptionalism
• Chapter 4. Why Does the American Constitution Lack Social and Economic Guarantees?
• Chapter 5. America's Jekyll-and-Hyde Exceptionalism
• Part II. Explaining Exceptionalism
• Chapter 6. The Paradox of U.S. Human Rights Policy
• Chapter 7. American Exceptionalism, Popular Sovereignty, and the Rule of Law
• Part III. Evaluating Exceptionalism
• Chapter 8. American Exceptionalism: The New Version
• Chapter 9. Integrity-Anxiety?
• Chapter 10. A Brave New Judicial World
• Chapter 11. American Exceptionalism, Exemptionalism, and Global Governance
• Contributors
• Index