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Individual rights and the making of the international system /
We live today in the first global system of sovereign states in history, encompassing all of the world's polities, peoples, religions and civilizations. Christian Reus-Smit presents a new account of how this system came to be, one in which struggles for individual rights play a central role. Th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | We live today in the first global system of sovereign states in history, encompassing all of the world's polities, peoples, religions and civilizations. Christian Reus-Smit presents a new account of how this system came to be, one in which struggles for individual rights play a central role. The international system expanded from its original European core in five great waves, each involving the fragmentation of one or more empires into a host of successor sovereign states. In the most important, associated with the Westphalian settlement, the independence of Latin America, and post-1945 decolonization, the mobilization of new ideas about individual rights challenged imperial legitimacy, and when empires failed to recognize these new rights, subject peoples sought sovereign independence. Combining theoretical innovation with detailed historical case studies, this book advances a new understanding of human rights and world politics, with individual rights deeply implicated in the making of the global sovereign order -- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (250 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781461936763 1461936764 9781139046527 1139046527 1299772943 9781299772946 1139890247 9781139890243 1107289432 9781107289437 1107289009 9781107289000 0521674484 9780521674485 1107290058 9781107290051 1107293898 9781107293892 1107292824 9781107292826 |