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Human Rights in Global Politics. Edited by Tim Dunne and Nicholas Wheeler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 328. Index. £42.50, cloth; £15.95, paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Christine M. Chinkin
Christine M. Chinkin*
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 95 , Issue 2 , April 2001 , pp. 472 - 477
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References

1 See, e.g., Alston, Philip & Crawford, James, The Future of Unhuman Rights Treaty Monitoring (2000).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 See, e.g., Kingsbury, Benedict, The Concept of Compliance as a Function of Competing Conceptions of International Law, 19 Mich. J. Int’l L. 345 (1998)Google Scholar; Commitment and Compliance (Shelton, Dinah ed., 2000)Google Scholar (reviewed by Douglas, M. Johnston, 95 AJIL (forthcoming 2001)).Google Scholar

3 Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, GA Res. 54/4 (Oct. 15,1999) (entered into force Dec. 22, 2000).

4 Brown draws upon the work of philosopher Richard Rorty in rejecting the epistemological foundations of human rights while accepting the importance of “sentimental education” (p. 120)—that is, asserting values in face of wrongs.

5 See also, for example, Human Rights in Cross-Cultural Perspectives: A Question of Consensus (Abdullahi, An-Naimed., 1992)Google Scholar, in which cross-cultural dialogue is conceived as integral to the process of internalizing rights.

6 See also Falk, Richard, The Nuclear Weapons Advisory Opinion and the New Jurisprudence of Global Civil Society, 7 Transnat’l L. & Contemp. Probs. 333 (1997).Google Scholar

7 Richard, A. Falk, NATO’s Kosovo Intervention: Kosovo, World Order, and the Future of International Law, 93 AJIL 847 (1999).Google Scholar

8 Information on the special session, held from June 5-9, 2000, is available online at <http://www.un.org/womenwatch/confer/>.