The Age of Rights

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In 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document that was subsequently approved by the great majority of the world's governments. Human rights guarantees are also enshrined in the constitutions of nearly all of the world's sovereign states. Yet despite this apparently universal consensus, principles and policies often diverge, and the realities of human rights practice differ widely around the world.
In The Age of Rights, Louis Henkin explores the principal issues and developments both in international human rights and in rights in the United States, and then compares the concepts and conditions of rights in various parts of the world. Henkin provides a mature, insightful survey of the developments in human rights law and politics from an international perspective.
Considering the range of attitudes and practices surrounding the protection of individuals' rights from an international... Tovább

Fülszöveg

NEW IN PAPERBACK, WITH A NEW PREFACE
In 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document that was subsequently approved by the great majority of the world's governments. Human rights guarantees are also enshrined in the constitutions of nearly all of the world's sovereign states. Yet despite this apparently universal consensus, principles and policies often diverge, and the realities of human rights practice differ widely around the world.
In The Age of Rights, Louis Henkin explores the principal issues and developments both in international human rights and in rights in the United States, and then compares the concepts and conditions of rights in various parts of the world. Henkin provides a mature, insightful survey of the developments in human rights law and politics from an international perspective.
Considering the range of attitudes and practices surrounding the protection of individuals' rights from an international perspective in relation to American foreign policy and the American concept of "inalienable rights," Henkin offers an excellent overview of this vital issue. With a new preface bringing the work up to date for the 1990s, The Age of Rights will be essential reading for policymakers and for any reader interested in a global understanding of human rights.
"Henkin's internationalist rationale adds a new dimension to the well-publicized dispute between constitutional law scholars such as Raul Berger . . . and proponents of liberal activism such as Michael Perry and Arthur Selwyn Miller. Highly recommended."
—Choice
"[The Age of Rights] brings together the threads of [Henkin's] scholarship on human rights, rights recognized in the post-World War II era as'the one universal political/moral idea.' [It] will be useful reading for courses in American and world government, in foreign policy, and in human progress toward acknowledging the rights of all people."
—Academic Library Book Review
LOUIS HENKIN is University Professor Emeritus and Special Service Professor at Columbia University. He is the author of How Nations Behave: Law & Foreign Policy, coauthor of Human Rights in Contemporary China (Columbia), and coeditor of Constitutionalism and Rights: The Influence of the United States Constitution Abroad (Columbia).
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