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Universal Human Rights
in Theory and Practice
 A L S O BY T H E AU T HOR

International Human Rights, 4th ed. (2012)

Realism and International Relations (2000)

The Concept of Human Rights (1985)

Universal Human Rights
in Theory and Practice

THIR D EDITION

Jack Donnelly

C OR N E L L U N I V E R SI T Y PR E S S | I T H AC A A N D L ON D ON
Copyright © 2013 by Cornell University

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thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from
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First published 2013 by Cornell University Press

First printing, Cornell Paperbacks, 2013

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Donnelly, Jack.
Universal human rights in theory and practice / Jack Donnelly. — 3rd ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8014-5095-2 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-0-8014-7770-6 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Civil rights. 2. Human rights. 3. Cultural relativism. I. Title.
JC571.D755 2013
323—dc23 2012039604

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Contents

Preface to the Third Edition ix

Introduction 1

Part I. Toward a Theory of Human Rights

1. The Concept of Human Rights 7
1. How Rights Work 7
2. Special Features of Human Rights 10
3. Human Nature and Human Rights 13
4. Human Rights and Related Practices 17
5. Analytic and Substantive Theories 17
6. The Failure of Foundational Appeals 19
7. Coping with Contentious Foundations 21

2. The Universal Declaration Model 24

1. The Universal Declaration 24
2. The Universal Declaration Model 26
3. Human Dignity and Human Rights 28
4. Individual Rights 29
5. Interdependence and Indivisibility 31
6. The State and International Human Rights 32
7. Respecting, Protecting, and Providing Human Rights 36
8. Realizing Human Rights and Human Dignity 39

3. Economic Rights and Group Rights 40

1. The Status of Economic and Social Rights 40
2. Group Rights and Human Rights 45
vi | Contents

4. Equal Concern and Respect 55

1. Hegemony and Settled Norms 55
2. An Overlapping Consensus on International Human Rights 57
3. Moral Theory, Political Theory, and Human Rights 60
4. Equal Concern and Respect 62
5. Toward a Liberal Theory of Human Rights 65
6. Consensus: Overlapping but Bounded 69

Part II. The Universality and Relativity

of Human Rights
5. A Brief History of Human Rights 75
1. Politics and Justice in the Premodern Non-Western World 75
2. The Premodern West 81
3. The Modern Invention of Human Rights 86
4. The American and French Revolutions 88
5. Approaching the Universal Declaration 90
6. Expanding the Subjects and Substance of Human Rights 91

6. The Relative Universality of Human Rights 93

1. “Universal” and “Relative” 93
2. The Universality of Internationally Recognized Human Rights 94
3. Three Levels of Universality and Particularity 99
4. Relative Universality: A Multidimensional Perspective 103

7. Universality in a World of Particularities 106

1. Culture and the Relativity of Human Rights 106
2. Advocating Universality in a World of Particularities 112

Part III. Human Rights and Human Dignity

8. Dignity: Particularistic and Universalistic Conceptions
in the West 121
1. Dignitas: The Roman Roots of Dignity 121
2. Biblical Conceptions: Kavod and Imago Dei 124
3. Kant 126
4. Rights and Dignity in the West 129
5. Dignity and the Foundations of Human Rights 130

9. Humanity, Dignity, and Politics in Confucian China 133

1. Cosmology and Ethics 133
2. Confucians and the Early Empires 139
 Contents | vii

3. “Neo-Confucianism” and Song Imperial Rule 142

4. Twentieth-Century Encounters with “Rights” 144
5. Human Rights and Asian Values 146

10. Humans and Society in Hindu South Asia 147

1. Cosmology 148
2. Social Philosophy 148
3. Caste 150
4. Hindu Universalism 153
5. Opposition to Caste Discrimination 154
6. Hinduism and Human Rights in Contemporary India 156

Part IV. Human Rights and International Action

11. International Human Rights Regimes 161

1. The Global Human Rights Regime 161
2. Political Foundations of the Global Regime 170
3. Regional Human Rights Regimes 172
4. Single-Issue Human Rights Regimes 179
5. Assessing Multilateral Human Rights Mechanisms 190
6. The Evolution of Human Rights Regimes 192

12. Human Rights and Foreign Policy 197

1. Human Rights and the National Interest 197
2. International Human Rights and National Identity 199
3. Means and Mechanisms of Bilateral Action 201
4. The Aims of Human Rights Policy 204
5. Foreign Policy and Human Rights Policy 205
6. The Limits of International Action 208
Appendix: Arguments against International Human Rights Policies 210

Part V. Contemporary Issues

13. Human Rights, Democracy, and Development 217

1. The Contemporary Language of Legitimacy 218
2. Defining Democracy 220
3. Democracy and Human Rights 222
4. Defining Development 225
5. Development-Rights Tradeoffs 227
6. Development and Civil and Political Rights 230
7. Markets and Economic and Social Rights 231
8. The Liberal Democratic Welfare State 233
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