Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice
by Jack Donnelly
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In the third edition of his classic work, revised extensively and updated to include recent developments on the international scene, Jack Donnelly explains and defends a richly interdisciplinary account of human rights as universal rights. He shows that any conception of human rights-and the idea of human rights itself-is historically specific and contingent. Since publication of the first edition in 1989, Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice has justified Donnelly's claim that show more "conceptual clarity, the fruit of sound theory, can facilitate action. At the very least it can help to unmask the arguments of dictators and their allies." show lessTags
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Jack Donnelly is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of International Relations at the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver. Daniel J. Whelan is associate professor off politics and international relations at Hendrix College.
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- Politics and Government, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Philosophy
- DDC/MDS
- 323 — Social sciences Political science Civil and political rights
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- JC571 .D755 — Political Science Political theory Political theory. The state. Theories of the state Purpose, functions, and relations of the state
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