TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hopgood,Stephen
TI  - The endtimes of human rights /Stephen Hopgood
SN  - 9780801469299
AV  - JC571 .E538 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Human rights
KW  - International cooperation
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Moral authority in a godless world --; The church of human rights --; The Holocaust metanarrative --; The moral architecture of suffering --; Human rights and American power --; Human rights empire --; Of gods and nations --; The NeoWestphalian world; 2; b
N2  - "In a book that is at once passionate and provocative, Stephen Hopgood argues, against the conventional wisdom, that the idea of universal human rights has become not only ill adapted to current realities but also overambitious and unresponsive. A shift in the global balance of power away from the United States further undermines the foundations on which the global human rights regime is based. American decline exposes the contradictions, hypocrisies and weaknesses behind the attempt to enforce this regime around the world and opens the way for resurgent religious and sovereign actors to challenge human rights"--Publisher website
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