Bob Clifford Rights as Weapons: Instruments of Conflict, Tools of Power 9780691166049

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Автор: Bob Clifford
Название: Rights as Weapons: Instruments of Conflict, Tools of Power
ISBN: 9780691166049
Издательство: Wiley
Классификация:

Международные отношения

Политические свободы и политический котроль

Права человека

Гражданские права и гражданство

Политическая коррупция

Международное право

ISBN-10: 0691166048
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 248
Вес: 0.59 кг.
Дата издания: 09.04.2019
Язык: English
Размер: 166 x 243 x 30
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Поставляется из: Англии
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An in-depth look at the historic and strategic deployment of rights in political conflicts throughout the world

Rights are usually viewed as defensive concepts representing mankinds highest aspirations to protect the vulnerable and uplift the downtrodden. But since the Enlightenment, political combatants have also used rights belligerently, to batter despised communities, demolish existing institutions, and smash opposing ideas. Delving into a range of historical and contemporary conflicts from all areas of the globe, Rights as Weapons focuses on the underexamined ways in which the powerful wield rights as aggressive weapons against the weak.

Clifford Bob looks at how political forces use rights as rallying cries: naturalizing novel claims as rights inherent in humanity, absolutizing them as trumps over rival interests or community concerns, universalizing them as transcultural and transhistorical, and depoliticizing them as concepts beyond debate. He shows how powerful proponents employ rights as camouflage to cover ulterior motives, as crowbars to break rival coalitions, as blockades to suppress subordinate groups, as spears to puncture discrete policies, and as dynamite to explode whole societies. And he demonstrates how the targets of rights campaigns repulse such assaults, using their own rights-like weapons: denying the abuses they are accused of, constructing rival rights to protect themselves, portraying themselves as victims rather than violators, and repudiating authoritative decisions against them. This sophisticated framework is applied to a diverse range of examples, including nineteenth-century voting rights movements, the American civil rights movement; nationalist, populist, and religious movements in todays Europe; and internationalized conflicts related to Palestinian self-determination, animal rights, LGBT rights, and transgender rights.

Comparing key episodes in the deployment of rights, Rights as Weapons opens new perspectives on a concept central to legal and political conflicts.

Rights as Weapons: Instruments of Conflict, Tools of Power, Bob Clifford