Nationalism and Human Rights: In Theory and Practice in the Middle East, Central Europe, and the Asia-Pacific

by Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat

Book Overview

By critically addressing the tension between nationalism and human rights that is presumed in much of the existing literature, the essays in this volume confront the question of how we should construe human rights: as a normative challenge to the excesses of modernity, particularly those associated with the modern nation-state, or as an adjunct of globalization, with its attendant goal of constructing a universal civilization based on neoliberal economic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349341576
• ISBN13: 9781349341573
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 193 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"