商品簡介
Utilizing Libya as a test case, this volume explores the relationship between international society, human rights, and norms, proposing a theoretical approach to their interaction that is influenced by Hedley Bull's idea that the structural mechanical forces of the international anarchic order (which the structural realists emphasize) do not preclude the possibility of a moral idea. This English School approach is further supplemented by the proposition that norms are resilient in international society and are constituted at inter-state, transnational, and inter-human levels and through the interaction between those levels. The discussion of Libya covers the period from when Muammar Gaddafi came to power in 1969 to the 1980s, when the regime's human rights agenda centered on rights to self-determination, development, education, and health and housing; the period 1986-1992, as the decline and eventual collapse of the power of the Soviet sphere prompted a shift in the Libyan state's approach to human rights; the embargo period of 1992-1999, when the coercive power of international society caused the regime to deprioritize human rights in favor of regime survival; and the period 1999-2010, when the regime began once again expressing an interest in adopting international societal norms of human rights. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Dr. Giacomina De Bona is an independent writer and advisor on international human rights issues and has served as a consultant in the Middle East.
