| Human Rights and World Trade: Hunger in International Society Contributor(s): Gonzalez-Pelaez, Ana (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415349397 ISBN-13: 9780415349390 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2005 Annotation: This book provides an analysis of the political viability of human rights and offers an in-depth investigation of the largest violation of human rights: world hunger. Dr. Gonzalez-Pelaez develops John Vincent's theory of basic human rights within the context of the international political economy and demonstrates how the right to food has become an international norm enshrined with international law. She then assesses the international normative and practical dimensions of hunger in connection with international trade and poverty. Using the society of states as the framework of analysis, she explores the potential that the current system has to correct its own anomalies, and examine the measures that can move the hunger agenda forward in order to break through its current stagnation. Demonstrating the interaction between international relations and international political economy, this book will be of significant interest to IR theorists as well as human rights scholars and practitioners concerned with basic rights and the problem of hunger. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | International Relations - General - Political Science | Civil Rights - Political Science | Political Economy |
| Dewey: 363.8 |
| LCCN: 2004018464 |
| Series: New International Relations |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 6.46" W x 9.44" (0.93 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A new and incisive analysis of the political viability of human rights, with an in-depth investigation of its largest violation: world hunger. Gonzalez-Pelaez develops John Vincent's theory of basic human rights within the context of the international political economy and demonstrates how the right to food has become an international norm enshrined within international law. She then assesses the international normative and practical dimensions of hunger in connection with international trade and poverty. Using the society of states as the framework of analysis, she explores the potential that the current system has to correct its own anomalies, and examines the measures that can move the hunger agenda forward in order to break through its current stagnation. |