Ignatieff American Exceptionalism and Human Rights

Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2688-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Ignatieff, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction: American Exceptionalism and Human Rights by Michael Ignatieff 1
PART I. THE VARIETIES OF EXCEPTIONALISM 27
Chapter 2. The Exceptional First Amendment by Frederick Schauer29
Chapter 3. Capital Punishment and American Exceptionalism by Carol S. Steiker 57
Chapter 4. Why Does the American Constitution Lack Social and Economic Guarantees? By Cass R. Sunstein 90
Chapter 5. America’s Jekyll-and-Hyde Exceptionalism by Harold Hongju Koh 111
PART II. EXPLAINING EXCEPTIONALISM 145
Chapter 6. The Paradox of U.S.Human Rights Policy by Andrew Moravcsik 147
Chapter 7. American Exceptionalism, Popular Sovereignty, and the Rule of Law by Paul W. Kahn 198
PART III. EVALUATING EXCEPTIONALISM 223
Chapter 8. American Exceptionalism: The New Version by Stanley Hoffmann 225
Chapter 9. Integrity-Anxiety? by Frank I. Michelman 241
Chapter 10. A Brave New Judicial World by Anne-Marie Slaughter 277
Chapter 11. American Exceptionalism, Exemptionalism, and Global Governance by John Gerard Ruggie 304
Contributors 339
Index 341

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Ignatieff is Carr Professor of Human Rights Practice and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. His numerous books include Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry (Princeton) and The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror.