Rights Beyond Borders: The Global Community and the Struggle over Human Rights in China

Rights Beyond Borders: The Global Community and the Struggle over Human Rights in China
ISBN-10
0191522953
ISBN-13
9780191522956
Category
Political Science
Pages
308
Language
English
Published
2000-09-21
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Author
Rosemary Foot

Description

Over the five decades since the establishment of the UN Charter and Universal Declaration of Human Rights, human rights issues have become a dominant feature of the international system, embracing new actors, eroding the traditional Westphalian concept of sovereignty, and leading to an acceptance that the treatment of individuals and groups within domestic societies is legitimately a focus of global attention. This book examines the affect that this normative evolution has had on the individual, state, institutional and advocacy network behaviour. Having described this normative environment it assesses its impact on key actors' relationships with China, especially in the period since the Tiananmen bloodshed in June 1989. It also examines China's responses–international and internal–to being the focus of global attention in this issue area. The book's theoretical concerns are to uncover the conditions under which international human rights norms influence behaviour, including domestic changes within states, and about the operation of norms in the global system.

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