Human Rights Unbound

Author : Lea Raible
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192608495
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights Unbound written by Lea Raible and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-03 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores to what extent a state owes human rights obligations to individuals outside of its territory, when the conduct of that state impacts upon the lives of those individuals. It draws upon legal and political philosophy to develop a theory of extraterritoriality based on the nature of human rights, merging accounts of economic, social, and cultural rights with those of civil and political rights Lea Raible outlines four main arguments aimed at changing the way we think about the extraterritoriality of human rights. First, she argues that questions regarding extraterritoriality are really about justifying the allocation of human rights obligations to specific states. Second, the book shows that human rights as found in international human rights treaties are underpinned by the values of integrity and equality. Third, she shows that these same values justify the allocation of human rights obligations towards specific individuals to public institutions - including states - that hold political power over those individuals. And finally, the book demonstrates that title to territory is best captured by the value of stability, as opposed to integrity and equality. On this basis, Raible concludes that all standards in international human rights treaties that count as human rights require that a threshold of jurisdiction, understood as political power over individuals, is met. The book applies this theory of extraterritoriality to explain the obligations of states in a wide range of cases.

Author : Lea Raible
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198863373
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights Unbound written by Lea Raible and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores to what extent a state owes human rights obligations to individuals outside of its territory, when the conduct of that state impacts upon the lives of those individuals. It draws upon legal and political philosophy to develop a theory of extraterritoriality based on the nature of human rights, merging accounts of economic, social, and cultural rights with those of civil and political rights Lea Raible outlines four main arguments aimed at changing the way we think about the extraterritoriality of human rights. First, she argues that questions regarding extraterritoriality are really about justifying the allocation of human rights obligations to specific states. Second, the book shows that human rights as found in international human rights treaties are underpinned by the values of integrity and equality. Third, she shows that these same values justify the allocation of human rights obligations towards specific individuals to public institutions - including states - that hold political power over those individuals. And finally, the book demonstrates that title to territory is best captured by the value of stability, as opposed to integrity and equality. On this basis, Raible concludes that all standards in international human rights treaties that count as human rights require that a threshold of jurisdiction, understood as political power over individuals, is met. The book applies this theory of extraterritoriality to explain the obligations of states in a wide range of cases.

Author : Andrew Bernstein
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 0761849696
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capitalism Unbound written by Andrew Bernstein and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2010 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a concise explanation of capitalism's moral and economic superiority to socialism, including America's current mixed-economy welfare state. This volume offers a focused, essentialized, and condensed argument ideal for the layman who admires capitalism but lacking a succinct, accessible explanation of its moral and economic virtues.

Author : Sean Richmond
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487503466
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unbound in War written by Sean Richmond and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of how two of America's closest allies, Canada and Britain, have sought to reconcile their security concerns with their legal obligations during two of the most significant international conflicts since the Second World War.

Author : Charles R. Beitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199604371
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Idea of Human Rights written by Charles R. Beitz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human rights have become one of the most important moral concepts in global political life over the last 60 years. Charles Beitz, one of the world's leading philosophers, offers a compelling new examination of the idea of a human right.

Author : David L. Brunsma
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317223039
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Institutions Unbound written by David L. Brunsma and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Institutions--like education, family, medicine, culture, and law--, are powerful social structures shaping how we live together. As members of society we daily express our adherence to norms and values of institutions as we consciously and unconsciously reject and challenge them. Our everyday experiences with institutions not only shape our connections with one another, they can reinforce our binding to the status quo as we struggle to produce social change. Institutions can help us do human rights. Institutions that bridge nation-states can offer resources, including norms, to advance human rights. These institutions can serve as touch stones to changing minds and confronting human rights violations. Institutions can also prevent us from doing human rights. We create institutions, but institutions can be difficult to change. Institutions can weaken, if not outright prevent, human rights establishment and implementation. To release human rights from their institutional bindings, sociologists must solve riddles of how institutions work and determine social life. This book is a step forward in identifying means by which we can loosen human rights from institutional constraints.

Author : Lea Raible
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192608509
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights Unbound written by Lea Raible and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-03 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores to what extent a state owes human rights obligations to individuals outside of its territory, when the conduct of that state impacts upon the lives of those individuals. It draws upon legal and political philosophy to develop a theory of extraterritoriality based on the nature of human rights, merging accounts of economic, social, and cultural rights with those of civil and political rights Lea Raible outlines four main arguments aimed at changing the way we think about the extraterritoriality of human rights. First, she argues that questions regarding extraterritoriality are really about justifying the allocation of human rights obligations to specific states. Second, the book shows that human rights as found in international human rights treaties are underpinned by the values of integrity and equality. Third, she shows that these same values justify the allocation of human rights obligations towards specific individuals to public institutions - including states - that hold political power over those individuals. And finally, the book demonstrates that title to territory is best captured by the value of stability, as opposed to integrity and equality. On this basis, Raible concludes that all standards in international human rights treaties that count as human rights require that a threshold of jurisdiction, understood as political power over individuals, is met. The book applies this theory of extraterritoriality to explain the obligations of states in a wide range of cases.

Author : Isabel V. Sawhill
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815725590
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Generation Unbound written by Isabel V. Sawhill and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over half of all births to young adults in the United States now occur outside of marriage, and many are unplanned. The result is increased poverty and inequality for children. The left argues for more social support for unmarried parents; the right argues for a return to traditional marriage. In Generation Unbound, Isabel V. Sawhill offers a third approach: change "drifters" into "planners." In a well-written and accessible survey of the impact of family structure on child well-being, Sawhill contrasts "planners," who are delaying parenthood until after they marry, with "drifters," who are having unplanned children early and outside of marriage. These two distinct patterns are contributing to an emerging class divide and threatening social mobility in the United States. Sawhill draws on insights from the new field of behavioral economics, showing that it is possible, by changing the default, to move from a culture that accepts a high number of unplanned pregnancies to a culture in which adults only have children when they are ready to be a parent.

Author : Joanna Chiu
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 148700768X
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China Unbound written by Joanna Chiu and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the United States stumbles, an award-winning foreign correspondent chronicles China’s dramatic moves to become a dominant power. As the world’s second-largest economy, China is extending its influence across the globe with the complicity of democratic nations. Joanna Chiu has spent a decade tracking China’s propulsive rise, from the political aspects of the multi-billion-dollar “New Silk Road” global investment project to a growing sway on foreign countries and multilateral institutions through “United Front” efforts. Chiu offers readers background on the protests in Hong Kong, underground churches in Beijing, and exile Uyghur communities in Turkey, and exposes Beijing’s high-tech surveillance and aggressive measures that result in human rights violations against those who challenge its power. The new world disorder documented in China Unbound lays out the disturbing implications for global stability, prosperity, and civil rights everywhere.

Author : Patrizia Longo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786608154
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Justice Unbound written by Patrizia Longo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important anthology provides students and teachers with voices of social and global justice that have been marginalized or forgotten by history. It gives thought-leaders, from the Global South a platform and engages the voices of oppressed communities, including Charles Mills and Franz Fanon and Ella Baker. This text is a comprehensive analysis of modern and contemporary theories of justice. Since the publication in 1971 of John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice, there has been much debate on his views from both the right and the left of the political spectrum. But there is a lack of textbooks that provide not only a compilation of substantial selections on challenges to Rawls’s theory from feminist and postcolonial scholars but that also include writings by non-white and non-Western authors on different aspects of justice. This book fills this huge gap and brings together many influential writings on the topic of justice that are often omitted in philosophy and political theory collections. This work addresses complex issues in an increasingly diverse society.