This fourth edition of David P Forsythe's successful textbook provides an authoritative and timely analysis of the place of human rights in an age of upheaval in international politics Human rights standards are examined at the global, regional and national levels, with separate chapters on transnational corporations and advocacy groups Completely updated and revised, the fourth edition takes account of new sources and recent scholarship, as well as recent events, such as the Syrian war, the rise of ISIS, refugee flows, South Sudan crises, and the resurgence of nationalism A new chapter has been added on the media and human rights, covering both traditional and social media Examining attempts to protect human rights by various actors, such as the United Nations, the European Union, transnational corporations, and the media, the book stresses that the open-ended fate of universal human rights depends on human agency in this context Containing further reading suggestions and discussion questions, this textbook is a vital resource for courses on human rights in an international context

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Human Rights in International Relations

https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/international_security/v017/17.1.zakaria.pdf

Realism and Domestic Politics: A Review Essay

“Dependence” has become the latest euphemism in a long list of such terms. No doubt its original intent was critical. The term itself emerged out of the “structuralist” theories of Latin American scholars and was meant as a rebuttal to “developmentalist” or “modernization“ theories and “monetarist” policy views. Andre Gunder Frank has traced its intellectual origins and its limitations in a recent combative paper entitled “Dependence is dead; long live dependence and the class struggle.” We live in a capitalist world economy, one that took definitive shape as a European world economy in the sixteenth century (see Wallerstein 1974) and came to include the whole world geographically in the ninteenth century. Capitalism as a system of production for sale in a market for profit and appropriation of this profit on the basis of individual or collective ownership has only existed in, and can be said to require, a world system in which the political units are not co-extensive with the boundaries of the market economy. This has permitted sellers to profit from strengths in the market whenever they exist but enabled them simultaneously to seek, whenever needed, the intrusion of political entities to distort the market in their favor. Far from being a system of free competition of all sellers, it is a system in which competition becomes relatively free only when the economic advantage of upper strata is so clear-cut that the unconstrained operation of the market serves effectively to reinforce the existing system of stratification.

Dependence in an Interdependent World: The Limited Possibilities of Transformation Within the Capitalist World Economy

Introduction. The philosophy of historiography 1. Consensus and historiographic knowledge 2. The history of knowledge of history 3. The theory of scientific historiography 4. Historiographic opinion 5. Historiographic explanation 6. The limits of historiographic knowledge Conclusion. Historiography and history.

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Our Knowledge of the Past: A Philosophy of Historiography

This account of imperialism explores recent intellectual, theoretical and conceptual developments in imperial history, including interdisciplinary and post-colonial perspectives. Exploring the links between empire and domestic history, it looks at the interconnections and comparisons between empire and imperial power within wider developments in world history, covering the period from the Roman to the present American empire. 
The book begins by examining the nature of empire, then looks at continuity and change in the historiography of imperialism and theoretical and conceptual developments. It covers themes such as the relationship between imperialism and modernity, culture and national identity in Britain.
Suitable for undergraduates taking courses in imperial and colonial history.

Imperialism and Postcolonialism

The author argues that the global violence and warfare of this century are the consequence of the world revolution of westernization which has characterized it. The ascendance of Europe had, by the turn of the century, brought all parts of the world under its influence and control. Westerners have seen such global emulation as a 'civilizing' process. The author argues, however, that the globe's attempt to catch up with the West militarily, economically, and politically has been a traumatic experience as societies have been forced to undergo in a few decades changes that Europeans underwent in many centuries, causing many countries to fall prey to totalitarian regimes and warfare. Modern historians, political scientists.

The world revolution of Westernization : the twentieth century in global perspective

Sergei Witte and the industrialization of Russia

Leopold Ranke. The Formative Years

Why Lenin? Why Stalin? a Reappraisal of the Russian Revolution, 1900-1930.

IN OUR STUDY of alien and distant cultures the first and basic question inevitably has to be: how do we know? The following essay aims at elucidating the process by which the realities as a foreign people in their culture perceive them are ingested, by the act of scholarly cognition, into the realities prevailing in our own culture. We are specifically concerned here with the absorption into western (or European) understanding of African institutions and ways of life, restricting ourselves to the study of the Gold Coast and Ghana but suggesting a broader applicability. This process in its widest sense we shall call 'transubstantiation', i.e., the transformation of one cultural substance into another, of African culture as seen by Africans into European culture as seen by Europeans, using for illustration two academic disciplines, anthropology and history. We will also argue that the process of transubstantiation reflects the prevailing balance of political power as well as of cultural ascendancy. Since this essay offers merely reflections, the treatment of this subject will be selective and casual rather than systematic. Every act of cognition implies some form of transubstantiation: an object or situation is transformed from its independent existence into a possession of the mind. In familiar environments such transformation is automatic, the result of acculturation through the normal stages of education. In the face of novelty, as in the European encounter with Africa, the appropriation calls for an elaborate intellectual effort, as the following analysis will show. The anthropologist M. Fortes, renowned for his research among the Tallensi, a small society in north-eastern Ghana, has given us an excellent exposition of the process of transubstantiation; it is worth quoting in full:

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Papers

The world revolution of Westernization : the twentieth century in global perspective

Sergei Witte and the industrialization of Russia

Leopold Ranke. The Formative Years

Why Lenin? Why Stalin? a Reappraisal of the Russian Revolution, 1900-1930.

Transubstantiation in the Study of African Reality