The Human Rights State: Justice Within and Beyond Sovereign Nations

by Benjamin Gregg

The nation state operates on a logic of exclusion: no state can offer citizenship and legal rights to all comers. From the logic of exclusion a state derives its sovereign power. Yet this exclusivity undermines the project of advancing human rights globally. That project operates on a logic of inclusion: all people, regardless of citizenship status or territorial location, would everywhere be recognized as bearers of human rights. In practice,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812248058
• ISBN13: 9780812248050
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.1"