Human Rights and Memory

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. The Ubiquity of Human Rights in a Cosmopolitan Age

2. Sociology and Human Rights

3. Sovereignty and Human Rights: The Hobbesian Challenge

4. International Law and the Formation of Nation-States

5. From Minority to Human: The Changing Face of Rights

6. The Cold War Period: More Than One Universalism 7. The Post–Cold War Period: Globalization and the Cosmopolitan Turn

8. Human Rights and the Clash of Memories: The Politics of Forgiveness

9 East Meets West: Europe and Its Others

10. A Sociology of Human Rights and Sovereignty After 9/11

Notes

References

Index

“[Human Rights and Memory] raises new questions and should motivate rich lines of future empirical inquiry. I highly recommend it to scholars and graduate students in sociology, philosophy, law, political science, and history, to all who share an interest in memory and human rights.”

—Joachim J. Savelsberg, Memory Studies