Us Hegemony And The Project Of Universal Human Rights U.s. Hegemony And The Project Of Universal Human Rights United States Hegemony And The Project Of Universal Human Rights

The Mountbatten Centre for International Studies (MCIS), located in the Department of Politics at the University of Southampton, conducts many cooperative and individual research programmes and activities. Current areas of research include nuclear non-proliferation, human rights, international environmental issues, naval peacekeeping, European and Asian security, civil-military relations and police studies. MCIS activities include residential seminars by its Defence Studies Unit as well as a programme of seminars and public lectures. The Centre is interdisciplinary, relying for its resource base on many departments within the University, including History, Law, Education, and Aeronautics and Astronautics. Links have been established with the Centre d'Histoire Militaire of the Human rights is often claimed as the "idea" of our time. However, although considerable time, energy and resources have been invested in the idea, and extravagant claims are often made about progress in providing machinery for the protection of human rights, there are few signs that violations are any less common than in the past. This book argues that while the USA was instrumental in establishing the "idea" of human rights as a dominant theme in the day-to-day rhetoric of international relations, powerful economic and political interests succeeded in ensuring that a strong international regime for the protection of human rights did not emerge. Tony Evans. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 232-240) And Index.