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Decolonization, Self-Determination, And The Rise Of Global Human Rights Politics

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 This is the first global history of human rights politics in the age of decolonization. Leading scholars demonstrate how human rights were embraced and deployed by a diverse collection of actors, including both nationalists and imperialists, activists and diplomats, in contesting self-determination and national independence.
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Population Control As A Human Right - International Law And The Global Quest To Curb Overpopulation

by Roman (Dublin City University) Birke

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 Concerns about global overpopulation spread rapidly in the 1940s and still persist today. Roman Birke demonstrates the conflicts this created between the rights of the community and the rights of the individual, and how human rights became central to the population debate at both a domestic and international level.
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In Defense Of Economic And Social Human Rights - An Intellectual History, 1940 To The Present

by Christian Olaf (Aarhus Universitet, Denmark) Christiansen

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 In this groundbreaking intellectual history of economic and social human rights, Christian Olaf Christiansen traces their justification from World War II until the present day. Featuring a series of fascinating thinkers, this is the first book to comprehensively map the key arguments made in defense of social and economic human rights.
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Red Internationalism - Anti-Imperialism And Human Rights In The Global Sixties And Seventies

by Salar (Bowdoin College, Maine) Mohandesi

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 Through tracing the history of international anti-war activism in the 1960s and 1970s, Salar Mohandesi shows how and why human rights displaced anti-imperialism as the dominant way that activists in Western Europe and North America imagined changing the world.
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Blue Helmet Bureaucrats - United Nations Peacekeeping And The Reinvention Of Colonialism, 1945â€“1971

by Margot (University Of Exeter) Tudor

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 A history of colonial legacies in United Nations peacekeeping from 1945â€"1971, focusing on the influence of UN staff deployed to conflicts in the Global South. Margot Tudor identifies the unexplored colonial structures, racial prejudices, and organisational politics that shaped UN peacekeeping practices during the instability of decolonisation.
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International Jewish Humanitarianism In The Age Of The Great War

by Jaclyn (Cardiff University) Granick

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 Jaclyn Granick reveals the untold story of how American Jews reinvented modern humanitarianism during the Great War and rebuilt Jewish life in Jewish homelands. She provides insights into the origins of American Jewish philanthropy and politics and its implications for understanding modern humanitarianism as a whole.
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Amnesty International And Human Rights Activism In Postwar Britain, 1945-1977

by Tom Buchanan

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 Tom Buchanan traces the development of the human rights movement in post-war Britain, examining its origins as a coalition of activists, the birth of Amnesty International in 1961 up to Amnesty's receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977, and how these activists were able to effect major changes in public and political attitudes.
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Jewish Internationalism And Human Rights After The Holocaust

by Nathan A. Kurz

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 Nathan A. Kurz examines the separation between Jewish advocacy organizations and international human rights after Israel's creation. A key text for those interested in the global politics of Israel, international advocacy of non-governmental organizations, political relations between diasporas and homelands, and the recent history of human rights.
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Humanitarianism And Human Rights - A World Of Differences?

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 Human rights and humanitarianism are two totems of global ethics and politics in today's world, but they have a complicated relationship that is not always understood or appreciated. To capture that past, present, and future, this volume explores what each hopes to attain and how those ambitions converge or diverge.
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The Emerging Autonomous Legal Order Of The Eurasian Economic Union

by Maksim Karliuk

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 In this original study of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), Maksim Karliuk assesses the law, present dynamics, and the likely future development of the EAEU. Karliuk considers the legal, institutional and decision-making issues of the EAEU as an attempt to encourage post-Soviet integration and offers solutions to the most problematic concerns.
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Red Internationalism - Anti-Imperialism And Human Rights In The Global Sixties And Seventies

by Salar Mohandesi

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Red Internationalism - Anti-Imperialism And Human Rights In The Global Sixties And Seventies

by Salar Mohandesi

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 Through tracing the history of international anti-war activism in the 1960s and 1970s, Salar Mohandesi shows how and why human rights displaced anti-imperialism as the dominant way that activists in Western Europe and North America imagined changing the world.
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Poland'S Solidarity Movement And The Global Politics Of Human Rights

by Robert Brier

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 Robert Brier examines how human rights emerged as the dominant political language of our time. By showing how Polish dissidents were entangled in international debates on human rights and political resistance, he demonstrates how human rights became a contested source of legitimacy.
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Blue Helmet Bureaucrats - United Nations Peacekeeping And The Reinvention Of Colonialism, 1945â€“1971

by Margot (University Of Exeter) Tudor

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 A history of colonial legacies in United Nations peacekeeping from 1945â€"1971, focusing on the influence of UN staff deployed to conflicts in the Global South. Margot Tudor identifies the unexplored colonial structures, racial prejudices, and organisational politics that shaped UN peacekeeping practices during the instability of decolonisation.
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Christianity And Human Rights Reconsidered

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 This volume showcases the work of a new generation of scholars interested in the historical connection between religion and human rights in the twentieth century, offering a truly global perspective on the internal diversity, theological roots, and political implications of Christian human rights theory.
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Red Internationalism - Anti-Imperialism And Human Rights In The Global Sixties And Seventies

by Salar (Bowdoin College, Maine) Mohandesi

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 Through tracing the history of international anti-war activism in the 1960s and 1970s, Salar Mohandesi shows how and why human rights displaced anti-imperialism as the dominant way that activists in Western Europe and North America imagined changing the world.
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American Transitional Justice - Writing Cold War History In Human Rights Litigation

by Natalie R. (Tel-Aviv University) Davidson

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 Revisits two seminal human rights cases in the United States under the Alien Tort Statute, FilÃ¡rtiga and Marcos, exploring how these lawsuits operated as transitional justice mechanisms in the former Western bloc. Essential reading for scholars of international law, politics, social movements, human rights, globalization, history and memory.
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Christianity And Human Rights Reconsidered

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 This volume showcases the work of a new generation of scholars interested in the historical connection between religion and human rights in the twentieth century, offering a truly global perspective on the internal diversity, theological roots, and political implications of Christian human rights theory.
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Reagan, Congress, And Human Rights - Contesting Morality In Us Foreign Policy

by Rasmus Sinding (Lunds Universitet, Sweden) Sã¸Ndergaard

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 This book traces the role of human rights concerns in US foreign policy during the 1980s, focusing on the struggle among the Reagan administration and members of Congress. It explores how executive-legislative relations shaped attention to human rights in US foreign policy and how the issue of human rights, in turn, impacted governmental relations.
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The Past Can'T Heal Us - The Dangers Of Mandating Memory In The Name Of Human Rights

by Lea (University College Dublin) David

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 Lea David goes against the well-embedded belief that 'proper' remembrance leads to a better appreciation of human rights values, helping us to understand how the human rights memorialization agenda developed globally and why it often ends up strengthening nationalist sentiment and shaping social inequalities on the ground.
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Night On Earth - A History Of International Humanitarianism In The Near East, 1918â€“1930

by Davide (Graduate Institute Of International And Development Studies, Geneva) Rodogno

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 Night on Earth is a broad-ranging account of international humanitarian programs in Near East in the period following the First World War. Davide Rodogno reveals how international 'relief' and 'development' were intertwined long before the birth of the United Nations with humanitarians attempting to reshape entire communities and nations.
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The Ngo Moment - The Globalisation Of Compassion From Biafra To Live Aid

by Kevin (National University Of Ireland, Galway) O'Sullivan

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 Offers a fresh interpretation of the social, cultural and ideological foundations that shaped the rapid expansion of the global NGO sector. Kevin O'Sullivan explains how and why NGOs became the primary conduits of popular compassion for the global poor and how this shaped the West's relationship with the post-colonial world.
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The Human Rights Dictatorship - Socialism, Global Solidarity And Revolution In East Germany

by Ned (Universitat Erfurt, Germany) Richardson-Little

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 By exposing the forgotten history of human rights in East Germany, this study places the history of the Cold War, Eastern European dissidents and the revolutions of 1989 in a new light, and demonstrates how even a communist dictatorship could imagine itself to be a champion of human rights.
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Human Rights In Twentieth-Century Australia

by Jon Piccini

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 This groundbreaking study unpicks a tangled web of activists, bureaucrats, writers and politicians who championed, engaged with, critiqued or ignored what are today held to be the unassailable truths of universal human rights. Today's debates about freedom of religion, offshore detention and indigenous recognition have a long human rights history.
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