The ubiquity of human rights in a cosmopolitan age -- Sociology and human rights -- Sovereignty and human rights : the Hobbesian challenge -- International law and the formation of nation-states -- From minority to human : the changing face of rights -- The Cold War period : more than one universalism -- The post-Cold War period : globalization and the cosmopolitan turn -- Human rights and the clash of memories : the politics of forgiveness -- East meets West : Europe and its others -- Human rights and sovereignty after 9/11.
Summary:
"Examines the foundations of human rights, how their political and cultural validation in a global context is posing challenges to nation-state sovereignty, and how they become an integral part of international relations and are institutionalized into domestic legal and political practices"--Provided by publisher.
