People's Rights

ISBN-13: 9780198298755 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 360 str.

Philip Alston

Opis

The right to self-determination has been a driving force in international law and politics through much of the post-World War II period. In the 1970s it was joined by a number of other human rights attributed to peoples rather than to individuals, including rights to development, peace, a clean environment, and humanitarian assistance. In this volume the current and future significance of these so-called third-generation solidarity rights are examined by leading experts.

Recenzje

Overall, this is a timely and informative volume ... the volume's most distinctive contribution, namely, its anti-essentialist perspective on people's rights and the elucidation of the ways in which rights can have both empowering and contstraining effects depending on their discoursive articulations and the political ends that the latter serve.

O autorze

Philip Alston is Professor of International Law at the European University Institute in Florence. He is the editor of The UN and Human Rights (OUP 1995) and The EU and Human Rights (OUP 1999) and is the General Editor of the European Journal of International Law.