Human Rights in History #: Humanitarianism and Human Rights

A World of Differences?

Human Rights in History #: Humanitarianism and Human Rights
Michael N Barnett
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This book explores the fluctuating relationship between human rights and humanitarianism. For most of their lives, human rights and humanitarianism have been distant cousins. Humanitarianism focused on situations in faraway places dealing with large-scale loss of life that demanded urgent attention whilst human rights advanced the cause of individual liberty and equality at home. However, the twentieth century saw the two coming much more directly into dialogue, particularly following the end of the Cold War, as both began working in war zones and post-conflict situations. Leading scholars probe how the shifting meanings of human rights and humanitarianism converge and diverge from a variety of disciplinary perspectives ranging from philosophical inquiries that consider whether and how differences are constructed at the level of ethics, obligations, and duties, to historical inquiries that attempt to locate core differences within and between historical periods, and to practice-oriented perspectives that suggest how differences are created and recreated in response to concrete problems and through different kinds of organised activities with different goals and meanings.

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Amnesty International and Human Rights Activism in Postwar Britain, 1945-1977
Care of the Witness, The: A Contemporary History of Testimony in Crises
Christianity and Human Rights Reconsidered
Decolonization, Self-Determination, and the Rise of Global Human Rights Politics
Human Rights in Twentieth-Century Australia
Human Rights on Trial: A Genealogy of the Critique of Human Rights
Humanitarianism and Human Rights: A World of Differences?
In the Cause of Humanity: A History of Humanitarian Intervention in the Long Nineteenth Century
International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War
Jewish Internationalism and Human Rights after the Holocaust
Making of International Human Rights, The: The 1960s, Decolonization, and the Reconstruction of Global Values
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Night on Earth: A History of International Humanitarianism in the Near East, 1918-1930
Past Can't Heal Us, The: Dangers of Mandating Memory in the Name of Human Rights
Poland's Solidarity Movement and the Global Politics of Human Rights
Problems of Genocide, The: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression
Rene Cassin and Human Rights: From the Great War to the Universal Declaration
Social Rights and the Politics of Obligation in History
World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century

' The fraught relationship between humanitarianism and human rights is brilliantly illuminated in this excellent collection. Many of the key figures in the contemporary discourse feature in the theoretical section of the book, but the strength of the volume rests equally on a series of well-crafted practical studies. Very highly recommended. ' Chris Brown, Emeritus Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science ' A volume like this one was needed, expected and long overdue. It raises important questions, explores crucial issues, and provides useful answers on the vexata quaestio of the worlds of difference between humanitarianism and human rights. Scholars intertwine their multiple disciplinary optics, approaches and expertise in a fruitful dialogue. ' Davide Rodogno, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva ' As the rise of nationalism and counter-terrorism measures threaten to stall or set-back progress made over the last century towards a universalization of human rights and humanitarian norms, this book offers a collection of rich, sometimes opposing, perspectives on the evolution and meaning of these ideals. It provides much needed intellectual sustenance to inform critical thinking and debate on how to uphold norms of humanity in these challenging times. ' Fiona Terry, Head of the ICRC' s Centre for Operational Research and Experience (CORE)
Michael N. Barnett is University Professor of International Affairs and Political Science at the George Washington University, Washington DC. He has written critically acclaimed books on global ethics, humanitarian intervention, and humanitarianism, including Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda (2002) and Empire of Humanity (2012) and edited Paternalism Beyond Borders (2016).
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ISBN-13: 9781108819206
Published: 15 Oct 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Pages: 340

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