Achieving human rights /
Richard Falk.
- New York : Routledge, 2009.
- x, 244 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-232) and index.
Toward a necessary utopianism: democratic global governance -- The power of rights and the rights of power: what future for human rights? -- Orientalism and international law -- Toward global democracy -- Citizenship and globalization -- The Holocaust and the emergence of international human rights -- The Pinochet moment: whither universal jurisdiction? -- Genocide at the world court: the case against Serbia -- A descending spiral -- Encroaching on the rule of law: counter-terrorist justifications -- Humanitarian intervention -- Crimes, lies, and law: human rights in adversity -- Humanity in question -- The ideal of the citizen pilgrim.