Human Rights for the 21st Century: Foundation for Responsible Hope

by Peter Juviler, Bertram Gross, Vladimir Kartashkin, Elena Lukasheva, Stanley Katz

Overview

Leading specialists and activists from Russia and the USA join, in this volume, to offer a searching assessment of human rights in their own countries and in the world at large. They reflect on past history, present problems associated with system breakdown and decline, and the obstacles and opportunities on the way to the realisation of human rights in this uncertain post-Cold War era and the millennium that is now dawning. The participants in the discussions detailed here include Yelena Bonner, Viktor Chkhikvadze, Norman Dorsen, Riane Eisler, David Forsythe, Paula Garb, Charles Henry, Susan Heuman, Irina Lediakh, Vladimir Kudriavtsev, Pavel Litvinov, Richard Schifter, Henry Shue, Evgenii Skripilev, Vladimir Vlashihin, Oleg Vorobiev and the editors.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781315486796
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/16/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Peter Juviler, Bertram Gross, Vladimir Kartashkin, Elena Lukasheva

Table of Contents

Part 1 Human Rights for the 21st Century; Chapter 1 Golden Opportunities, Huge Obstacles, Bertram Gross, Peter Juviler; Chapter 2 Witness to Upheaval, Elena Lukasheva; Part 1a The Ex-USSR: Endings and Beginnings; Chapter 3 Actors in the Drama Speak Out (Berkeley, California, August 10–11, 1989), Richard Schifter, Viktor Chkhikvadze, Elena Bonner, Andrei Sakharov, Pavel Litvinov; Chapter 4 Russia Turned Upside Down, Peter Juviler; Chapter 5 Human Rights: A Time for Hard Decisions, Elena Lukasheva; Chapter 6 Individual Rights Before October 1917: A Russian Perspective, Evgenii Skripilev; Chapter 7 Prerevolutionary New Thinking, Susan Heuman; Chapter 8 Postcommunist New Thinking on Human Rights, Vladimir Kudriavtsev, Elena Lukasheva; Chapter 9 The Legal Status of Foreign Employees in Russia, Paula Garb; Part 2 The USA: Progress and Regress; Chapter 10 The Human Rights Paradox, Bertram Gross; Chapter 11 A Russian View of U.S. Principles and Practice, Irina Lediakh, Oleg Vorobiev; Chapter 12 Civil Liberties in the United States: Nature And Limits, Norman Dorsen; Chapter 13 Civil Liberties in the United States: Changing Soviet Perspectives, Vasilii Vlasikhin; Chapter 14 U.S. Foreign Policy and Human Rights; Chapter 15 A U.S. Comment on the Essay by Vladimir Kartashkin, David Forsythe; Part 3 Toward the Twenty-first Century; Chapter 16 A Common Global Home, Vladimir Kartashkin; Chapter 17 Goals for a Stronger United Nations, Bertram Gross, Vladimir Kartashkin; Chapter 18 Human Rights Education for a New World Order, Charles Henry; Chapter 19 Roles of Women and Men: Integrating the Public and the Private, Riane Eisler; Chapter 20 A Healthier United States, Bertram Gross; Chapter 21 Negative Duties Toward All, Positive Duties Toward Some, Henry Shue; Chapter 22 Rethinking Rights Without the Enemy, Peter Juviler;

Editorial Reviews

This volume emerges from three annual conferences (1989-91) of The Soviet-U.S. Dialogue on Human Rights and the Future, sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and the Russian Academy of Sciences through the Institute of State and Law. Following a preface by ACLS coordinators Bertram Gross and Peter Juviler and a preface by Soviet co-coordinator Elena Lukasheva, the volume is divided into three sections: the ex-USSR--endings and beginnings; the US--progress and regress; and toward the 21st century. A remarkable look at the obstacles and opportunities to surmount ideology in the pursuit of human rights--made particularly striking by the concurrent revolutionary events in the Soviet Union. Paper edition (110-2), $19.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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