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Debating Ethics eBook Series

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  • Debating Humanitarian Intervention

    Should We Try to Save Strangers?

    by Bas van der Vossen, Fernando R. Tesón ...
    Series series Debating Ethics
    When foreign powers attack civilians, other countries face an impossible dilemma. Two courses of action emerge: either to retaliate against an abusive government on behalf of its victims, or to remain spectators. Either course offers its own perils: the former, lost lives and resources without certainty of restoring peace or preventing worse problems from proliferating; the latter, cold ... Read more

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  • Understand Political Philosophy: Teach Yourself

    by Mel Thompson ...
    Understand Political Philosophy is an in-depth guide to the philosophers and political ideas who have shaped our society. Quickly and easily get to grips with the key thinkers and theories, from Aristotle to Wollstonecraft, from capitalism to utilitarianism. With exploration of contemporary issues and current debates, this book will put political philosophy in the context of the world we live in ... Read more

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  • Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry

    by Michael Ignatieff, Kwame Anthony Appiah, David A. Hollinger, Diane F. Orentlicher, Thomas W. Laqueur ...
    Series series The University Center for Human Values Series
    Michael Ignatieff draws on his extensive experience as a writer and commentator on world affairs to present a penetrating account of the successes, failures, and prospects of the human rights revolution. Since the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, this revolution has brought the world moral progress and broken the nation-state's monopoly on the conduct of ... Read more

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  • Women's Human Rights

    CEDAW in International, Regional and National Law

    Edited by Anne Hellum, Henriette Sinding Aasen ...
    Series Book 3 - Studies on Human Rights Conventions
    As an instrument which addresses the circumstances which affect women's lives and enjoyment of rights in a diverse world, the CEDAW is slowly but surely making its mark on the development of international and national law. Using national case studies from South Asia, Southern Africa, Australia, Canada and Northern Europe, Women's Human Rights examines the potential and actual added value of the ... Read more

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  • Political Economy of Human Rights

    Rights, Realities and Realization

    by Bas de Gaay Fortman ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    The plethora of literature produced over the past decade in response to the perceived failure of the human rights project to deliver results for billions of people living in ‘adverse’ environments has usually focused on international legal standards and mechanisms, with little regard for the root structural realities that constrain their implementation. Hence, a text that primarily focuses on the ... Read more

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  • Global Ethics

    Anarchy, Freedom and International Relations

    by Mervyn Frost ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Global Politics
    This provocative and original book challenges the commonplace that contemporary international interactions are best understood as struggles for power. Eschewing jargon and theoretical abstraction, Mervyn Frost argues that global politics and global civil society must be understood in ethical terms. International actors are always faced with the ethical question: So, what ought we to do in ... Read more

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  • Non-State Actors, Soft Law and Protective Regimes

    From the Margins

    Edited by Cecilia M. Bailliet ...
    By offering critical perspectives of normative developments within international law, this volume of essays unites academics from various disciplines to address concerns regarding the interpretation and application of international law in context. The authors present common challenges within international criminal law, human rights, environmental law and trade law, and point to unintended risks ... Read more

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  • The Ethics of Armed Humanitarian Intervention

    Edited by Don E. Scheid ...
    The question of military intervention for humanitarian purposes is a major focus for international law, the United Nations, regional organizations such as NATO, and the foreign policies of nations. Against this background, the 2011 bombing in Libya by Western nations has occasioned renewed interest and concern about armed humanitarian intervention (AHI) and the doctrine of Responsibility to ... Read more

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  • Is Democracy Exportable?

    Edited by Zoltan Barany, Robert G. Moser ...
    Can democratic states transplant the seeds of democracy into developing countries? What have political thinkers going back to the Greek city-states thought about their capacity to promote democracy? How can democracy be established in divided societies? This books answers these and other fundamental questions behind the concept known as 'democracy promotion.' Following an illuminating concise ... Read more

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  • Humanity's Law

    by Ruti Teitel ...
    In Humanity's Law, renowned legal scholar Ruti Teitel offers a powerful account of one of the central transformations of the post-Cold War era: the profound normative shift in the international legal order from prioritizing state security to protecting human security. As she demonstrates, courts, tribunals, and other international bodies now rely on a humanity-based framework to assess the rights ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Human Rights

    Edited by Thomas Cushman ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    In mapping out the field of human rights for those studying and researching within both humanities and social science disciplines, the Handbook of Human Rights not only provides a solid foundation for the reader who wants to learn the basic parameters of the field, but also promotes new thinking and frameworks for the study of human rights in the twenty-first century.The Handbook comprises over ... Read more

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  • Fictions of Justice

    The International Criminal Court and the Challenge of Legal Pluralism in Sub-Saharan Africa

    by Kamari Maxine Clarke ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    By taking up the challenge of documenting how human rights values are embedded in rule of law movements to produce a new language of international justice that competes with a range of other formations, this book explores how notions of justice are negotiated through everyday micropractices and grassroots contestations of those practices. These micropractices include speech acts that revere the ... Read more

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