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Beyond Illiberalism Rights, Rhetoric, and Reality in a Pluralistic World
By Robert Shepherd
Copyright 2025
164 Pages
by
Routledge
164 Pages
by
Routledge
164 Pages
by
Routledge
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Arguing that there has never been a consensus on which rights all people are entitled, Beyond Illiberalism: Rights, Rhetoric, and Reality in a Pluralistic World traces how the concept of human rights is tied to a global project rooted in colonialism and grounded in nineteenth-century liberalism and post-World War II social democratic principles.
This book contends that human rights are... Read more
1. Rights, Unbound
2. Human Rights and the Liberal Tradition
3. Crafting a Liberal World Order
4. The Right to Have Rights: Human Rights, Citizens, and States
5. Values, Rights, and Culture
6. Human Rights in a Post-Hegelian World
Biography
Robert J. Shepherd is the editor of Critical Asian Studies and a research fellow at George Washington University’s Sigur Center for Asian Studies in Washington, DC. He previously served as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in rural Nepal, worked for the United Nations in China and Indonesia, and taught courses on human rights and development at George Washington University, USA.
