Rethinking Human Rights Critical Approaches to International Politics

Rethinking Human Rights brings together a team of authorsfrom fields as diverse as political theory, peace studies, international law, and media studiesconcerned with a new international agenda of human rights promotion. The collection presents an original and tightly argued critique of current trends and deals with a range of questions concerning the implication of human rights approaches for humanitarian aid, state sovereignty, international law, democracy, and political autonomy.

David Chandler is Lecturer in International Relations, Brunel University, Middlesex.