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Online-Ressource (361 p)
ISBN:
9780691116488
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With the 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq, the most controversial question in world politics fast became whether the United States stands within the order of international law or outside it. Does America still play by the rules it helped create? American Exceptionalism and Human Rights addresses this question as it applies to U.S. behavior in relation to international human rights. With essays by eleven leading experts in such fields as international relations and international law, it seeks to show and explain how America's approach to human rights differs from that of most ot
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Contents; Chapter 1. Introduction: American Exceptionalism and Human Rights; PART I. THE VARIETIES OF EXCEPTIONALISM; Chapter 2. The Exceptional First Amendment; Chapter 3. Capital Punishment and American Exceptionalism; Chapter 4. Why Does the American Constitution Lack Social and Economic Guarantees?; Chapter 5. America's Jekyll-and-Hyde Exceptionalism; PART II. EXPLAINING EXCEPTIONALISM; Chapter 6. The Paradox of U.S. Human Rights Policy; Chapter 7. American Exceptionalism, Popular Sovereignty, and the Rule of Law; PART III. EVALUATING EXCEPTIONALISM
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Chapter 8. American Exceptionalism: The New VersionChapter 9. Integrity-Anxiety?; Chapter 10. A Brave New Judicial World; Chapter 11. American Exceptionalism, Exemptionalism, and Global Governance; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781400826889
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691116488
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe American Exceptionalism and Human Rights
Language:
English
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