Protecting Human Rights: A Comparative Study

Landman (government and human rights, U. of Essex) focuses attention on what he sees as a significant and persistent gap between principle and practice in human rights protection. Using theories and methods from international law, international relations, and comparative politics, he investigates reasons for the growth of the international law of human rights, the relation between the law and actual practice, whether the law makes a difference to people, and what other factors help account for the global variation in right protection. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR