The Politics of Human Rights

by Andrew Vincent

Book Overview

The Politics of Human Rights provides a systematic introductory overview of the nature and development of human rights. At the same time it offers an engaging argument about human rights and their relationship with politics. The author argues that human rights have only a slight relation to natural rights and they are historically novel: In large part they are a post-1945 reaction to genocide which is, in turn, linked directly to the lethal potentialities...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199238960
• ISBN13: 9780199238965
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"