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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2014

Terrence E. Paupp
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Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Washington DC
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This book is dedicated to examining the greatest undiagnosed problem in international law: the failure of the nations of the Global North to accommodate, respect, and incorporate the legitimate claims of the nations of the Global South through a principled and comprehensive adherence to the legal mandates contained in the human rights to peace and development. From a historical viewpoint, it has been well established that the content of Western-dominated human rights discourse has traditionally been characterized by an overemphasis on civil and political rights, often to the exclusion of socioeconomic rights and the human right to peace. In part, this capture of the human rights discourse can be largely attributed to the inordinate dominance of the evolution of the human rights discourse by Western scholars who have – as a class – remained ideologically opposed to engaging in a reconception of the global order in some form other than that of capitalist domination by a transnational capitalist class (of which they have been the beneficiaries and proponents). Hence, in failing to even consider the claims of other human rights scholars, social movements, and changes in power relations in the world – as between the Global North and Global South – there has remained a lingering adherence to Eurocentric models, values and experiences in the dominant legal discourse of the West.

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  • Introduction
  • Terrence E. Paupp
  • Book: Redefining Human Rights in the Struggle for Peace and Development
  • Online publication: 05 June 2014
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107704947.002
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  • Introduction
  • Terrence E. Paupp
  • Book: Redefining Human Rights in the Struggle for Peace and Development
  • Online publication: 05 June 2014
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107704947.002
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  • Introduction
  • Terrence E. Paupp
  • Book: Redefining Human Rights in the Struggle for Peace and Development
  • Online publication: 05 June 2014
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107704947.002
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