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Basic works on the subject include Anne F. Bayefsky, The UN Human Rights Treaty System: Universality at the Crossroads (2001); Robert F. Drinan, The Mobilization of Shame: A World View of Human Rights (2001); Michael Ignatieff, Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry, ed. by Amy Gutmann (2001); Richard Falk, Human Rights Horizons: The Pursuit of Justice in a Globalizing World (2000); Martha C. Nussbaum, “Capabilities, Human Rights, and the Universal Declaration,” and Burns H. Weston, “The Universality of Human Rights in a Multicultured World: Toward Respectful Decision-Making,” in Burns H. Weston and Stephen P. Marks (eds.), The Future of International Human Rights (1999), pp. 25–99; Hurst Hannum, Guide to International Human Rights Practice, 3rd ed. (1999), and Autonomy, Sovereignty, and Self-Determination: The Accommodation of Conflicting Rights, rev. ed. (1996); John Rawls, The Law of Peoples (1999); Paul Gordon Lauren, The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen (1998); William Korey, NGOs and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1998); Michael J. Perry, The Idea of Human Rights: Four Inquiries (1998); S. James Anaya, Indigenous Peoples in International Law (1996); Beverly C. Edmonds and William R. Fernekes, Children's Rights: A Reference Handbook (1996); Alan Gewirth, The Community of Rights (1996); David Gillies, Between Principle and Practice: Human Rights in North-South Relations (1996); Guy S. Goodwin-Gill, The Refugee in International Law, 2nd ed. (1996); A.H. Robertson and J.G. Merrills, Human Rights in the World, 4th ed. (1996); Henry Shue, Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence, and U.S. Foreign Policy, 2nd ed. (1996); Henry J. Steiner and Philip Alston, International Human Rights in Context: Law, Politics, Morals (1996); Thomas Buergenthal, International Human Rights in a Nutshell, 2nd ed. (1995); Asbjörn Eide, Catarina Krause, and Allan Rosas (eds.), Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: A Textbook (1995); United Nations Centre for Human Rights, United Nations Action in the Field of Human Rights (1994); Ann Elizabeth Mayer, Islam and Human Rights: Tradition and Politics, 3rd ed. (1999); Rebecca J. Cook (ed.), Human Rights of Women: National and International Perspectives (1994); Louis Henkin and John Lawrence Hargrove (eds.), Human Rights: An Agenda for the Next Century (1994); Rein Müllerson, International Law, Rights, and Politics: Developments in Eastern Europe and the CIS (1994); Andrew Clapham, Human Rights in the Private Sphere (1993); Jack Donnelly, The Concept of Human Rights (1985), and International Human Rights, 2nd ed. (1998); Hurst Hannum and Dana D. Fischer (eds.), U.S. Ratification of the International Covenants on Human Rights (1993); Philip Alston (ed.), The United Nations and Human Rights: A Critical Appraisal (1992); Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na‘im (ed.), Human Rights in Cross-Cultural Perspectives (1992); Richard Pierre Claude and Burns H. Weston (eds. and contributors), Human Rights in the World Community, 2nd ed. (1992); James Crawford (ed.), The Rights of Peoples (1992); Astrid J.M. Delissen and Gerard J. Tanja, Humanitarian Law of Armed Conflict: Challenges Ahead (1991); James C. Hathaway, The Law of Refugee Status (1991); Edward Lawson (compiler), Encyclopedia of Human Rights, 2nd ed. (1996); Antonio Cassese, Human Rights in a Changing World (1990; originally published in Italian, 1988); Bertrand Binoche, Critiques des droits de l'homme (1989); Theodor Meron, Human Rights in Internal Strife: Their International Protection (1987), and Human Rights Law-Making in the United Nations (1986); R.J. Vincent, Human Rights and International Relations (1986); Theodor Meron (ed.), Human Rights in International Law: Legal and Policy Issues, 2 vol. (1984, reprinted 1992); David P. Forsythe, Human Rights and World Politics, 2nd ed., rev. (1989); Karel Vasak and Philip Alston (eds.), The International Dimensions of Human Rights, 2 vol., trans. from French (1982); Richard Falk, Human Rights and State Sovereignty (1981); Louis Henkin (ed.), The International Bill of Rights: The Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1981); Myres S. McDougal, Harold D. Lasswell, and Lung-chu Chen, Human Rights and World Public Order: The Basic Policies of an International Law of Human Dignity (1980); Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman, The Political Economy of Human Rights, 2 vol. (1979); Adamantia Pollis and Peter Schwab (eds.), Human Rights: Cultural and Ideological Perspectives (1979); Ronald Dworkin, Taking Rights Seriously (1977); Richard P. Claude (ed.), Comparative Human Rights (1976); Manouchehr Ganji, The Realization of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: Problems, Policies, Progress (1975); Maurice Cranston, What Are Human Rights? (1973); John Carey, UN Protection of Civil and Political Rights (1970); József Halász (ed.), Socialist Concept of Human Rights (1966; originally published in Hungarian, 1965); Hersch Lauterpacht, International Law and Human Rights (1950, reissued 1973); Richard B. Bilder, “Rethinking International Human Rights: Some Basic Questions,” Wisconsin Law Review, 171(1):171–217 (1969); and Egon Schwelb, Human Rights and the International Community: The Roots and Growth of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948–1963 (1964).

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