International human rights [electronic resource] / Jack Donnelly.

Part 1: Introduction and theory. Human rights as an issue in world politics
Theories of human rights
The relative universality of human rights
The domestic politics of human rights: dirty wars in the southern cone
Part 2: Multilateral, bilateral, and transnational action. Global multilateral mechanisms
Regional human rights regimes
Assessing multilateral mechanisms
Human rights and American foreign policy: Cold War-era cases and comparisons
Human rights and foreign policy
Transnational human rights advocacy
Comparing international actors and evaluating international action
Part 3: Post-Cold War issues and cases. Responding to human rights violations in China: Tiananmen and after
Humanitarian intervention against genocide
Globalization, the state, and human rights
(Anti)terrorism and human rights.