Table of Contents: The politics of human rights protection

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The politics of human rights protection moving intervention upstream with impact assessment /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Black, Jan Knippers, 1940-
Format:	Electronic
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Md : Rowman & Littlefield, c2009.
Subjects:	Human rights. Political violence. Political atrocities > Case studies. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Civil Rights. > Political Freedom & Security POLITICAL SCIENCE > Human Rights. > Political Freedom & Security Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

The human rights perspective and the need for impact assessment
What's in a name? Deconstructing human rights terms and concepts
The dialectics of building an international human rights regime
Human rights cleavages and controversies : the discourse
The globalization of vulnerability
From the ashes : Argentina's return from meltdown
Participation and accountability
Wayfarers in a walled-up world
Chile's long way home
The political dimensions of diversity
Feminism, democracy, and self-determination : the Taiwanese experience
The naked ape in nature : master or guardian?
China's three gorges : the dam and the damned
From sustainable war to sustainable peace
Against all odds : East Timor's quest for independence
Empire as a state of war
Terror and the war to end all rights
Cautious mainstreaming, constructive subversion
Conclusion : playing from strength.