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Rethinking Human Rights
Also by David Chandler
BOSNIA: Faking Democracy after Dayton
FROM KOSOVO TO KABUL: Human Rights and International Intervention
Rethinking Human Rights
Critical Approaches to
International Politics
Edited by
David Chandler
Lecturer in International Relations
Brunel University
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Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Notes on the Contributors x
List of Abbreviations xii
Introduction: Rethinking Human Rights 1
David Chandler
Part I Universal Rights?
1 Conditioning the Right to Humanitarian Aid?
Human Rights and the ‘New Humanitarianism’ 19
Fiona Fox
2 Human Rights and the Rule of Law: Achieving
Universal Justice? 38
John Laughland
3 The International Children’s Rights Regime 57
Vanessa Pupavac
Part II Rights of Empowerment?
4 Devolving Power? Human Rights and State
Regulation in Northern Ireland 79
Chris Gilligan
5 Empowering the Poorest? The World Bank and
the ‘Voices of the Poor’ 97
John Pender
6 The Limits of Human Rights and Cosmopolitan
Citizenship 115
David Chandler
7 Humanitarian Intervention and the Recasting of
International Law 136
Jon Holbrook
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Part III Human-Centred Rights?
8 New Wars and Old Wars? The Lessons of Rwanda 157
Barrie Collins
9 Moral Combat: Advocacy Journalists and the
New Humanitarianism 176
Philip Hammond
10 Morality’s Avenging Angels: the New Humanitarian
Crusaders 196
Edward S. Herman and David Peterson
References 217
Index 241
Acknowledgements
This book would not have been possible without the funding and support
provided by the Policy Research Institute, Leeds Metropolitan University,
which kindly extended my Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship to enable
me to complete the work of editing this collection. I would also like to
acknowledge the support, ideas and suggestions from the contributing
authors, who made the process of bringing this collective project together
an insightful and stimulating one. In particular, I would like to thank
Philip Hammond for his help and advice throughout.
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Notes on the Contributors
David Chandler is a Lecturer in International Relations at Brunel
University. He has written widely on international institutions, human
rights and democracy, including Bosnia: Faking Democracy After Dayton
(1999, Pluto Press) and From Kosovo to Kabul: Human Rights and
International Intervention(2002, Pluto Press).
Barrie Collins is the author of Obedience in Rwanda: a Critical Question
(1998, Sheffield Hallam University Press). He has taught the interna-
tional politics of Africa at the School of Oriental and African Studies,
London, and is currently researching African peace processes.
Fiona Fox is the former Head of Media Relations at CAFOD, the
Catholic aid agency. She was commissioned by the Caritas Network to
write a discussion paper on the Politicization of Humanitarian Aid in
1999, and has widely promoted debate on this theme within the UK aid
movement. She has written articles for a variety of journals including
World Today,TabletandDisasters.
Chris Gilliganis a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Ulster. He
has written extensively on Northern Irish politics, culture and society
and is co-editor, with Jon Tonge, of Peace or War? Understanding the Peace
Process in Northern Ireland(1997, Ashgate).
Philip Hammondis Senior Lecturer in Media at South Bank University.
He is co-editor, with Edward S. Herman, of Degraded Capability: The
Media and the Kosovo Crisis(2000, Pluto Press).
Edward S. Herman is Professor Emeritus of Finance at the Wharton
School, University of Pennsylvania, and has written extensively on
political economy; among his books is Manufacturing Consent: the
Political Economy of the Mass Media, co-authored with Noam Chomsky.
Jon Holbrookis a barrister and writer on legal and political issues. His
articles have appeared in The Times, The Independent, and the New Law
Journal on issues ranging from the International Criminal Court and
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