This book contributes to the understanding and analysis of ‘political approaches’ to human rights, including consideration of their diversity, and discussion of their strengths and weaknesses. The contributors present a balance between those who favour some version of the political approach and those who are dubious about the perceived advantages.

ContentsList of ContributorsIntroduction Tom Campbell and Kylie BournePart One: Identifying Political Approaches1. Tom Campbell, ‘Human Rights Morality and Human Rights Practice: An Interactive Approach’2 Caroline West, ‘Human Rights for Non-Believers’3 Duncan Ivison, ‘Traces of Recognition: Rights and Political Realism’4 Jovana Davidovic, ‘A Practical Account of the Concept of Human Rights’5 Suzy Killmister, ‘Deriving Human Rights from Human Dignity: A Novel Political Approach’Part Two: Critiquing Political Approaches6 John Tasioulas, ‘Exiting the Hall of Mirrors: Morality and Law in Human Rights’7 Denise Meyerson, ‘The Mismatch between Theory and Practice in Recent Theorizing about Human Rights’8 Jim Allan, ‘Human Rights, Doubts and Democracy’Part Three: Accommodating Economic Rights9 Octavio Luiz Motta Ferraz, ‘Two Conceptions of Social and Economic Rights: Basic Needs versus Equality’10 David Kinley, ‘The Politics of Human Rights and Finance’ 11 Laura Valentini, ‘Human Rights, the Political View and Transnational Corporations: An Exploration’Part Four: Beyond the Nation State?12 Sonu Bedi, ‘The Absence of Horizontal Effect in Human Rights Law: Domestic Violence and the Intimate Sphere’ 13 Seumas Miller, ‘The "Human" Right to Self-Defence: Natural, Institutional or Political Right?’14 Kylie Bourne, ‘Beitz’s Two Level Model of Human Rights and Statelessness’Conclusion Rhiannon Neilsen and Tom Campbell, ‘An Overview of Political Approaches to Human Rights’Index