This examination of global society focuses on its conflict with local societies and questions whether the human race should be treated as belonging to a single global community. It considers the universality of human rights and its conflict with group claims to self-determination.

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Information

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2014

ISBN

9781135275174

Edition

Topic

Politics & International Relations

Subtopic

Politics

Index

Politics & International Relations

Abbott, Diane 152

abortion 46–8, 114, 115

Africa 17, 23

alienation 14–15

alterity 126, 128, 131, 132, 134, 135

see also other

American Declaration of Independence 78, 82

Amnesty International 140

An-Na’im, Abdullahi 49, 54, 58, 65, 71

Annan, Kofi 149

arbitration: international 16–17

Argentina 156, 158

Aristotle 7, 55

Augustine, Saint 57

Aurelius, Marcus 7, 8

autonomy 14, 69, 99, 103, 110, 111, 133

see also self-determination: individual

Bahrain 156

Bangladesh 17

see also East Pakistan

Barber, Benjamin 19

Being 122–3, 124, 125, 126, 127, 129–30

Belarus 154

Belief: freedom of 46

Bell, Daniel 54, 65

Bevir, Mark 4

Blair, Tony 141, 151, 157

Bosnia 141

Britain 148, 149, 150, 151–2, 153, 157

see also United Kingdom

Brown, Chris 2, 140, 141, 153

Brownlie, Ian 145

Buchanan, Allen 69

Buddhism: 55

and human rights 66–70

Theravada 3, 52, 64–6, 69

Bull, Hedley 140, 144

Burma 64

Byers, Michael 15...

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Introduction
Cosmopolitanism, World Citizenship and Global Civil Society
Human Rights and Diverse Cultures: Continuity or Discontinuity?
Human Rights, Compatibility and Diverse Cultures
The Pendulum Theory of Individual, Communal and Minority Rights
The Question of Self-Determination and its Implications for Normative International Theory
Derrida and the Heidegger Controversy: Global Friendship Against Racism
Humanitarian Vigilantes or Legal Entrepreneurs: Enforcing Human Rights in International Society
Abstracts
Notes on Contributors
Index