Human Rights: Beyond the Liberal Vision.(Book review)
Social Forces, June, 2007 by Turner, Bryan S.
Human Rights: Beyond the Liberal Vision By Judith Blau and Alberto Moncada Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. 205 pages. $72 (cloth), $22.95 (paper)
Although the United States has championed liberty and individual rights, it has been consistently reluctant to support social rights, remaining deeply suspicious of the human rights revolution. As a result, the United States has often found itself isolated and out of step with the rest of the world, often hostile to the United Nations. The war on terror and the dubious status of Guantanamo Bay prisoners has only reinforced this gap. Human Rights. Beyond the Liberal Vision explores the causes of this dilemma, explodes the myths behind liberalism and delivers a powerful condemnation of the negative global consequences of...
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