When Might Becomes Human Right: Essays on

"Combining academic research with an active political life as a diplomat serving both her native Norway and the Holy See, Janne Haaland Matlary is able to offer us profound insights into the importance of human dignity and human rights in current politics. This book is essential reading for all who are concerned with issues of rationality, law, human rights, politics and religious freedom in European democracy today."--BOOK JACKET.

Janne Haaland Matlary is Professor of International Politics in the Department of Political Science of the University of Oslo, Norway, and Senior Adjunct Researcher in Security Policy at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.

Preface
Introduction	p. 1
Human Rights: The Political 'Bible'	p. 23
'Jenseits von Gut und Bose'? Self-Referential Man	p. 25
The Rechtsstaat as Democratic Guarantee	p. 43
The Dynamics of Human Rights Politics	p. 53
How Might Becomes Human Right	p. 73
Human Rights in Global Politics and Business	p. 75
On 'Politicized' Law and 'Juridified' Politics in Europe	p. 95
When Democracy and Human Rights Collide: the Family and Freedom of Religion	p. 111
Can Natural Law be Re-stated?	p. 129
Christianity and European Democracy	p. 131
The Human Rights Politics of John Paul II	p. 147
Pope Benedict XVI: The 'Tyranny of Relativism' and its Rational Remedy	p. 178
Bibliography	p. 200
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When Might Becomes Human Right: Essays on Democracy and the Crisis of Rationality

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