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100			_aIgnatieff, Michael
245			_aHuman Rights as Politics and Idolatry
260			_c2001 _aNew Jerssey _bPrinceton University Press
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520			_aMichael Ignatieff draws on his extensive experience as a writer and commentator on world affairs to present a penetrating account of the successes, failures, and prospects of the human rights revolution. Since the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, this revolution has brought the world moral progress and broken the nation-state's monopoly on the conduct of international affairs. But it has also faced challenges. Ignatieff argues that human rights activists have rightly drawn criticism from Asia, the Islamic world, and within the West itself for being overambitious and unwilling to accept limits. It is now time, he writes, for activists to embrace a more modest agenda and to reestablish the balance between the rights of states and the rights of citizens.
650			_aHuman Rights
650			_aPolitical science-Philosophy
650			_aWorld politics
700			_aGutmann, Amy
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