Political Economy of Human Rights : Rights, Realities and Realization

ISBN-13: 9780415644488 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 280 str.

Bas de Gaay Fortman

Opis

'Political Economy of Human Rights' focuses on the major challenge of realisation of human rights in the context of diverse realities. The book provides an analytical as well as inspirational text on human rights from a contextual perspective.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Rights: The Dialectics of Power and Protection  2. Rights: The Dialectics of International Norms and National Practice  3. Global Realities: Conflict and Confrontation  4. Local Realities: Strife and Struggle  5. Realisation: The Rights of the Poor  6. Realisation: The Rights of Collectivities.  Conclusion

O autorze

Bas de Gaay Fortman is the Emeritus Chair in Political Economy of the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Professor of Political Economy of Human Rights at the Utrecht University Law School, The Netherlands.