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Title

Constructing human rights in the age of globalization / Mahmood Monshipouri ... [et al.], editors.

Publication

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2003.

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Additional Authors

• Engleheart, Neil.
• Monshipouri, Mahmood, 1952-
• Nathan, Andrew J. (Andrew James)

Description

xxxiii, 353 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

International relations in a constructed world

Uniform Title

International relations in a constructed world.

Subject

• Civil rights
• Globalization
• Human rights and globalization
• Human rights

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : Observing human rights in an age of globalization / Neil A. Englehart ... [and others] -- Who owns our culture? Intellectual property, human rights, and globalization / Caren Irr -- The consequences of a constructed universal : democracy and civil rights in the modern state / Neil A. Englehart -- Reflections on the intersections of environment, development, and human rights in the context of globalization / Kavita Philip -- Translating a liberal feminism : revisiting Susan Okin on freedom, culture, and women's rights / Ellen M. Freeberg -- The politics of culture and human rights in Iran : globalizing and localizing dynamics / Mahmood Monshipouri -- Outside actors and the pursuit of civil society in China : harnessing the forces of globalization / Rebecca R. Moore -- Globalization and human rights for workers in China : convergence or collision? / Dorothy J. Solinger -- Localizing human rights in an era of globalization : the case of Hong Kong / Linda Butenhoff -- The challenges to international human rights / Joanne Bauer -- Obstacles on the road to an overlapping consensus on human rights / Charles Lockhart -- Globalizing cultural values : international human rights discourse as moral persuasion / Chenyang Li -- Suffering as common ground / John K. Downey -- Conclusion : Reconstructing human rights in the global society / Andrew J. Nathan ... [et al.].

ISBN

0765611376 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003041563

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Harvard Library