The Endtimes of Human Rights
ISBN: 9780801469305
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Human rights -- International cooperation; Human rights -- Moral and ethical aspects; Human rights -- Political aspects;

A passionate and provocative argument that the idea of universal human rights has become not only ill adapted to current realities but also overambitious and unresponsive.


Stephen Hopgood is Professor of International Relations, SOAS, University of London. He is the author of Keepers of the Flame: Understanding Amnesty International , also from Cornell, and American Foreign Environmental Policy and the Power of the State .

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