Human Rights In The Emerging Global Order

Kurt Mills investigates how the concept of sovereignty is changing as a result of normative, empirical, and institutional developments. From a normative political theory perspective he argues that respect for human rights, popular sovereignty, and self-determination are inherent in the social purpose of the state and thus must be considered when evaluating claims to sovereignty and non-intervention. Human Rights in the Emerging Global Order examines how recent international practice in the areas of human rights, self-determination, refugees and human migration and humanitarian intervention are challenging traditional conceptions of sovereignty in important, yet ambiguous, ways. Finally, it provides policy prescriptions to deal with these continuing humanitarian problems.

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Mills (American U., Cairo) maintains that the current system of independent states which allows states not to address global problems is becoming dangerously outmoded. He discusses how the world community, in taking this isolationist position, has failed to respond to many human rights violations. Chapters address such issues as reconstructing sovereignty, internal changes to sovereingty, permeable borders, humanitarian intervention, and what the new sovereignty means. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Kurt Mills is Assistant Professor at the American University in Cairo.