Rethinking Human Rights

DAVID CHANDLER is Lecturer in International Relations at Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex. He has written widely on human rights, democracy and international relations, including Bosnia: Faking Democracy after Dayton and From Kosovo to Kabul: Human Rights and International Intervention.

• Notes on the Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Rethinking Human Rights; D.Chandler PART I: UNIVERSAL RIGHTS? Conditioning the Right to Humanitarian Aid? Human Rights and the 'New Humanitarianism'; F.Fox Human Rights and the Rule of Law: Achieving Universal Justice?; J.Laughland The International Children's Rights Regime; V.Pupavac PART II: RIGHTS OF EMPOWERMENT Developing Power? Human Rights and State Regulation in Northern Ireland; C.Gilligan Empowering the Poorest? The World Bank and 'The Voices of the Poor'; J.Pender The Limits of Human Rights and Cosmopolitan Citizenship; D.Chandler Humanitarian Intervention and the Recasting of International Law; J.Holbrook PART III: HUMAN-CENTRED RIGHTS? New Wars and Old Wars? The Lessons of Rwanda; B.Collins Moral Combat: Advocacy Journalists and the New Humanitarianism; P.Hammond Morality's Avenging Angels: The New Humanitarian Crusaders; E.S.Herman & D.Peterson References Index

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