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Human Rights in the Twentieth Century

Edited by: Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann

ISBN13: 9780521142571
Published: March 2011
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Paperback
Price: £28.99



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Has there always been an inalienable 'right to have rights' as part of the human condition, as Hannah Arendt famously argued?

The contributions to this volume examine how human rights came to define the bounds of universal morality in the course of the political crises and conflicts of the twentieth century. Although human rights are often viewed as a self-evident outcome of this history, the essays collected here make clear that human rights are a relatively recent invention that emerged in contingent and contradictory ways.

Focusing on specific instances of their assertion or violation during the past century, this volume analyzes the place of human rights in various arenas of global politics, providing an alternative framework for understanding the political and legal dilemmas that these conflicts presented.

In doing so, this volume captures the state of the art in a field that historians have only recently begun to explore.

Subjects:
Human Rights and Civil Liberties
Contents:
Introduction Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann
Part I. The Emergence of Human Rights Regimes
1. The end of civilization and the rise of human rights: the mid-20th century disjuncture Mark Mazower
2. The 'human rights revolution' at work: displaced persons in post-war Europe G. Daniel Cohen
3. Legal diplomacy: law, politics, and the genesis of postwar European human rights Mikael Rask Madsen
Part II. Postwar Universalism and Legal Theory
4. Personalism, community, and the origins of human rights Samuel Moyn
5. Rene Cassin: les droit de l'homme and the universality of human rights, 1945-66 Glenda Sluga
6. Rudolf Laun and the human rights of Germans in occupied and early West Germany Lora Wildenthal
Part III. Human Rights, State Socialism, and Dissent
7. Embracing and contesting: the Soviet Union and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948-58 Jennifer Amos
8. Soviet rights-talk in the post-Stalin era Benjamin Nathans
9. Charter 77 and the Roma: human rights and dissent in socialist Czechoslovakia Celia Donert
Part IV. Genocide, Humanitarianism, and the Limits of Law
10. Toward world law? Human rights and the failure of the legalist paradigm of war Devin O. Pendas
11. 'Source of embarrassment': human rights, state of emergency, and the wars of decolonization Fabian Klose
12. The United Nations, humanitarianism and human rights: war crimes/genocide trials for Pakistani soldiers in Bangladesh, 1971-4 A. Dirk Moses
Part V. Human Rights, Sovereignty, and the Global Condition
13. African nationalists and human rights, 1940s to 1970s Andreas Eckert
14. The International Labour Organization and the globalization of rights, 1944-70 Daniel Roger Maul
15. 'Under a magnifying glass': the international human rights campaign against Chile in the 1970s Jan Eckel.