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A force profonde : the power, politics, and promise of human rights / edited by Edward A. Kolodziej.
- Title
- A force profonde : the power, politics, and promise of human rights / edited by Edward A. Kolodziej.
- Publication
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2003.
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- Additional Authors
- Kolodziej, Edward A.
- Description
- vi, 340 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "A Force Profonde explores conceptions of human rights from Western as well as other major world traditions in an attempt to dispel the notion that tyranny, culture, and religion are the only challenges to human rights. Focusing on regional patterns of conflict, the authors point out that violations often have to do with disputes over class, social status, economic privilege, and personal power. In addition, they contend that conflicts over identity are more prevalent in the West than commonly thought. The contributors confront the enduring questions of how to define shared goals and fashion workable strategies to bridge cultural differences and surmount the many formidable and varying regional obstacles to the advancement of human rights."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Pennsylvania studies in human rights
- Uniform Title
- Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Étude comparée (Descripteur de forme)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-315) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Force profonde: the power, politics, and promise of human rights / Edward A. Kolodziej -- Part I: Confronting legitimacies -- Western perspectives / Jack Donnelly -- Muslim perspectives / Valerie J. Hoffman -- Part II: Regional perspectives -- Northern tier / Marvin G. Weinbaum -- North Africa / Badredine Arfi -- Middle East: Israel / Ilan Peleg -- Northeast Asia: China / Edward Friedman -- South Asia / Stanley A. Kochanek -- Southeast Asia / Clark D. Neher -- European Union / Michael Newman -- Eastern Europe: the Russian Federation / Carol Skalnik Leff -- Latin America / Howard J. Wiarda -- Southern Africa / Robert Mattes, Anthony Leysens -- West Africa: Nigeria / I. William Zartman -- Part III: Retrospect and prospects -- Whither human rights? / Edward A. Kolodziej.
- ISBN
- 0812237277 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2003047384
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library