Human Rights Futures

For the first time in one collected volume, mainstream and critical human rights scholars together examine the empirical and normative debates around the future of human rights. They ask what makes human rights effective, what strategies will enhance the chances of compliance, what blocks progress, and whether the hope for human rights is entirely misplaced in a rapidly transforming world. Human Rights Futures sees the world as at a crucial juncture. The project for globalizing rights will either continue to be embedded or will fall backward into a maelstrom of nationalist backlash, religious resurgence and faltering Western power. Each chapter talks directly to the others in an interactive dialogue, providing a theoretical and methodological framework for a clear research agenda for the next decade. Scholars, graduate students and practitioners of political science, history, sociology, law and development will find much to both challenge and provoke them in this innovative book.

• The Future of Human Rights
• Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction
• Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World
• Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century (Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity)
• In Defense of Universal Human Rights
• The Twilight of Human Rights Law (Inalienable Rights)
• How to Do Things with International Law
• Human Rights: A Political and Cultural Critique (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)
• Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry (The University Center for Human Values Series)
• The Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid?