Rethinking Human Rights: Critical Approaches to International Politics - Paperback

by D. Chandler (Editor)

Rethinking Human Rights brings together a team of authors from fields as diverse as political theory, peace studies, international law and media studies - concerned with a new international agenda of human rights promotion. The collection presents an original and tightly argued critique of current trends and deals with a range of questions concerning the implication of human rights approaches for humanitarian aid, state sovereignty, international law, democracy and political autonomy.

Author Biography

BARRIE COLLINS Researcher FIONA FOX formerly Head of Media Relations, Catholic Food Agency CHRIS GILLIGAN Lecturer in Sociology, University of Ulster, Ireland PHILIP HAMMOND Senior Lecturer in Media, South Bank University, London EDWARD S. HERMAN Professor Emeritus of Finance, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania JON HOLBROOK Barrister JOHN LAUGHLAND European Director of the European Foundation JOHN PENDER Independent Writer and Researcher DAVID PETERSON Independent Journalist and Researcher VANESSA PUPAVAC Lecturer, School of Politics, University of Nottingham