Decolonization, Self-Determination, and the Rise of Global Human Rights Politic…
Decolonization, Self-Determination, and the Rise of Global Human Rights PoliticsAuthor(s): A. Dirk Moses, Marco Duranti, Roland Burke\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108479356, 978-1108479356\nSynopsis\nThis volume presents the first global history of human rights politics in the age of decolonization. The conflict between independence movements and colonial powers shaped the global human rights order that emerged after the Second World War. It was also critical to the genesis of contemporary human rights organizations and humanitarian movements. Anti-colonial forces mobilized human rights and other rights language in their campaigns for self-determination. In response, European empires harnessed the new international politics of human rights for their own ends, claiming that their rule, with its promise of 'development,' was the authentic vehicle for realizing them. Ranging from the postwar p.
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