1st Edition

Human Rights and Global Diversity

Edited By Simon Caney, Peter Jones Copyright 2001

    This examination of global society focuses on its conflict with local societies and questions whether the human race should be treated as belonging to a single global community. It considers the universality of human rights and its conflict with group claims to self-determination.

    Chapter 1 Introduction, Peter Jones, Simon Caney; Chapter 2 Cosmopolitanism, World Citizenship and Global Civil Society, Chris Brown; Chapter 3 Human Rights and Diverse Cultures: Continuity or Discontinuity?, Peter Jones; Chapter 4 Human Rights, Compatibility and Diverse Cultures, Simon Caney; Chapter 5 The Pendulum Theory of Individual, Communal and Minority Rights, Tom Hadden; Chapter 6 The Question of Self-Determination and its Implications for Normative International Theory, Kimberly Hutchings; Chapter 7 Derrida and the Heidegger Controversy: Global Friendship Against Racism, Mark Bevir; Chapter 8 Humanitarian Vigilantes or Legal Entrepreneurs: Enforcing Human Rights in International Society, Nicholas J. Wheeler;

    Biography

    Simon Caney, Peter Jones