International Human Rights

7. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-44710-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Fully updated, the seventh edition of International Human Rights examines the ways in which states and other international actors have addressed human rights since the end of World War II. This unique textbook features substantial attention to theory, history, international and regional institutions, and the role of transnational actors in the protection and promotion of human rights. Its purpose is to explore the difficult and contentious politics of human rights, and how those political dimensions have been addressed at the national, regional, and especially international levels.

Key features include:

- concise yet clearly organised and comprehensive coverage of the topics.

- substantially revised throughout, including a new chapter on rights-conscious business investment.

- new sections on the U.N. Human Rights Council, including substantive data trends on the distribution and topics of Council resolutions and the changing politics driven especially by the agendas of countries such as China and Russia; the implications of the war in Gaza; and “non-traditional approaches” to human rights.

- in-text features such as discussion questions, fully updated suggested readings, case studies, and "problems" to promote classroom discussion and in-depth examination of topics.

- updated and new case studies on key topics such as the draft Covenant on the Right to Development.

International Human Rights is essential reading for courses and modules in human rights, politics and international relations, law, criminal justice, sociology, social work, public administration, and international development.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Edquist-Whelan, Daniel J.

Donnelly, Jack

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: History and Theory  1. Human Rights in Global Politics: Historical Perspective  2. Theories of Human Rights 3. The Relative Universality of Human Rights  4. The Unity of Human Rights  Part 2: Multilateral, Bilateral, and Transnational Action  5. Global Multilateral Mechanisms  6. Regional Human Rights Regimes  7. Human Rights and Foreign Policy  8. Human Rights in American Foreign Policy  9. Transnational Human Rights Advocacy  10. Human Rights, Business Firms, and Rights-Conscious Investment  Part 3: Contemporary Issues  11. Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect  12. Globalization, the State, and Human Rights  13. Human Rights and Development  14. What Has Been Achieved? And What is Left to be Done?

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel J. Edquist-Whelan is the Charles Prentiss Hough Odyssey Professor of Politics at Hendrix College, USA.

Jack Donnelly is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of International Relations at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, USA.