Human Rights Standards: Hegemony, Law, and Politics

by Makau Mutua

Book Overview

How are human rights norms made, who makes them, and why? In Human Rights Standards, Makau Mutua traces the history of the human rights project and critically explores how the norms of the human rights movement have been created. Examining key texts and documents published since the inception of the human rights movement at the end of World War II, he crafts a bracing critique of these works from the hitherto underutilized perspective of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438459394
• ISBN13: 9781438459394
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"