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Human Rights Protection in Global Politics

Responsibilities of States and Non-State Actors

  • Kurt Mills
  • David Jason Karp
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Part of the Global Issues Series book series (GLOISS)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Responsibility and Human Rights

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction: Human Rights Responsibilities of States and Non-State Actors
      David Jason Karp, Kurt Mills
      Pages 3-22
    3. Humanitarianism and Responsibility in Discourse and Practice
      Glenn Mitoma, Kerry Bystrom
      Pages 23-45

  3. States’ Responsibilities: Beyond ‘Violations’ of Human Rights

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 47-47
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    2. Doctrinal Innovation and State Obligations: The Patterns of Doctrinal Development in the Jurisprudence of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
      Mátyás Bódig
      Pages 49-68
    3. Indivisible Human Rights and the End(s) of the State
      Daniel J. Whelan
      Pages 69-89
    4. Beyond Individual Accountability: The Meaning of State Responsibility
      Mark Gibney
      Pages 90-109

  4. Responsibilities of Non-State Actors

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 111-111
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    2. Putting the Blame on Governments: Why Firms and Governments Have Failed to Advance the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
      Susan Ariel Aaronson, Ian Higham
      Pages 113-136
    3. The Concept of Human Rights Protection and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
      David Jason Karp
      Pages 137-158
    4. Human Rights Ltd.: An Alternative Approach to Assessing the Impact of Transnational Corporations on Human Rights
      Flor González Correa
      Pages 159-179
    5. Living Up to Human Rights Responsibilities: Lawyers and Law Firms in the Chinese Authoritarian Context
      Nicola Macbean, Elisa Nesossi
      Pages 180-200
    6. Fulfilling the Right to Education? Responsibilities of State and Non-State Actors in Myanmar’s Education System
      Maaike Matelski
      Pages 201-220

  5. The Responsibility to Protect

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 221-221
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    2. What Responsibilities Does the International Community Have in Complex Humanitarian Crises and Mass Atrocity Situations?
      Kurt Mills
      Pages 223-244
    3. Grappling with Double Manifest Failure: R2P and the Civilian Protection Conundrum
      Melissa T. Labonte
      Pages 245-267
    4. Prevention Cascade: The United States and the Diffusion of R2P
      Michael Galchinsky
      Pages 268-287
    5. Argumentation and the Responsibility to Protect: The Case of Libya
      Tim Dunne, Katharine Gelber
      Pages 288-308
  6. Back Matter
    Pages 309-316
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About this book

Introduction

This edited book by Mills and Karp brings together political, legal and moral perspectives on the responsibilities of human rights protection in world politics today. It critiques a narrow focus on states' 'violations' of human rights, incorporates non-state actors, and looks beyond the 'Responsibility to Protect' policy framework.

Keywords

education government human rights IGH law morality policy politics prevention

Editors and affiliations

  • Kurt Mills
    • 1
  • David Jason Karp
    • 2
  1. 1.University of GlasgowUK
  2. 2.University of SussexUK

About the editors

Susan Ariel Aaronson, George Washington University, USA Mátyás Bódig, University of Aberdeen, UK Kerry Bystrom, Bard College, USA Tim Dunne, University of Queensland, Australia Michael Galchinsky, Georgia State University, USA Katharine Gelber, University of Queensland, Australia Mark Gibney, UNC-Asheville, USA Flor González Correa, University of Birmingham, UK Ian Higham, EIRIS Melissa Labonte, Fordham University, USA Nicola Macbean, The Rights Practice Maaike Matelski, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands Glenn Mitoma, University of Connecticut, USA Elisa Nesossi, Australia National University, Australia Daniel J. Whelan, Hendrix College, USA

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