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Are human rights part of the problem or part of the solution in the currentclash of civilizations? Drawing on a hitherto neglected body of work inclassical social theory and combining it with ideas derived from BarringtonMoore Norbert Elias and Michel Foucault Woodiwiss poses and answers thequestionsHow did human rights become entangled with power relations?How might the nature of this entanglement be altered so that human rightsbetter serve the global majority?In answering these questions he explains how and why rights discoursedeveloped in such distinctive ways in four key locations Britain the UnitedStates Japan and in the UN. On this basis he provides for the first time ageneral sociological account of the development of international human rightsdiscourse which represents a striking challenge to current thinking andpolicy. «
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