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The Politics of Human Rights.

The Politics of Human Rights provides a systematic introductory overview of the nature and development of human rights. At the same time it offers an engaging argument about human rights and their relationship with politics. The author argues that human rights have only a slight relation to natural...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vincent, Andrew
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The Politics of Human Rights provides a systematic introductory overview of the nature and development of human rights. At the same time it offers an engaging argument about human rights and their relationship with politics. The author argues that human rights have only a slight relation to natural rights and they are historically novel. In large part they are a post-1945 reaction to genocide which is, in turn, linked directly to the lethal potentialities of thenation-state. He suggests that an understanding of human rights should nonetheless focus primarily on politics and that there are no u.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (271 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191585043
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