Citizenship and Human Rights

From Exclusive and Universal to Global Rights: A New Framework
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5099-5033-1
Verlag: Hart Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 488 g

Can universal human rights and different national citizenship regimes ever be compatible? This book argues that they can't, setting out a legal-philosophical critique of the tension between both.

It explores whether the emergence of postnational models of citizenship that aim at decoupling human rights and citizenship succeed in overcoming tensions between the universal (multiculturalism; universal human rights; postnational values) and the particular (citizenship; borders; national values and diverse local narratives). As a result of this exploration, the author argues that it is illegitimate to speak of universal human rights, universal human dignity, or universal social justice. It is only by recognising this reality that a much needed transformation of human rights and citizenship can be undertaken in a meaningful way.

This provocative and compelling work will appeal to both human rights and citizenship lawyers, as well as others involved in human rights law at NGOs, governments, international organisations - and indeed anyone with an interest in the subject of how human rights evolved and new concepts for the future.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kälin, Christian H

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Legislation

Introduction

1. Philosophical Roots of the Concept of Humanity

I. Ancient Greek Ideas Regarding Humanity and Citizenship

II. Stoic Ideas of Humanity

III. The Christian Idea of Humanity

IV. The Enlightenment, Abstract Humanity and Universalism

V. Kant's Conception of Humanity

VI. Marx, Nietzsche and Freud: Towards a New Idea of Humanity and Political Subjectivity?

2. Foundations of Dignity and Human Rights

I. Introduction

II. The Human Soul in Greek Philosophy

III. Dignity in the Christian Tradition

IV. The Enlightenment, Kant and Human Dignity

V. The Early French and US Declarations of Human Rights

VI. Human Dignity in the Modern Human Rights Discourse

3. Ideas of Universal Human Rights versus Citizenship

I. Introduction
II. The Problem with Decoupling Human Rights and Citizenship

III. Human Rights Dichotomies

IV. Questioning the Universality of Human Rights

4. Ideas of World Citizenship: Attempting to Overcome the Conflict between the Exclusive and the Universal
I. Introduction

II. The Origins of Cosmopolitanism

III. Global Citizenship and Human Rights

5. A New Framework of Global Human Rights

I. Introduction
II. A Postmodern Global Society without Borders?

III. New Conceptions of Global Human Rights

IV. A Theory of Global Human Rights

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kälin, Christian H
Dr Christian H Kälin, a leading international law, immigration and citizenship expert, is the Chairman of Henley & Partners and advises governments on immigration programmes and policy. He is also the Founder and Chairman of Andan Foundation, a Swiss humanitarian organisation supporting displaced people. The main long-term project of the foundation is to build the first Free Global City.

Christian H Kälin is Chairman of Henley & Partners, UK.