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Human Rights and World Public Order - The Basic Policies of an International Law of Human Dignity, 2nd Edition by McDougal, Myres S; Lasswell, Harold D; Chen, Lung-chu
- Preliminary Material
- Dedication
- Preface to the New Edition
- Contents
- Dedication
- Preface to the Original Edition
- About the Author
- Harold Dwight Lasswell 1902–1978
- McDougal as Teacher, Mentor, and Friend
- Theory about Law: Jurisprudence for a Free Society
- New Introduction to Human Rights and World Public Order
- I Introduction
- II The Changing Context of Conditions
- III The Expanding Concept of Human Rights
- IV The Emergence and Development of the Concept of Human Security
- V The Development of a Comprehensive Global Bill of Human Rights
- VI A Comprehensive Concept and Framework of Implementation—Processes of Authoritative Decision and Effective Power
- VII Increasing Effectiveness in Performance of Relevant Decision Functions
- VIII From State Sovereignty toward State Responsibility to Protect
- IX Individual Criminal Responsibility
- X The Vital Role of Civil Society
- XI Projection of Probable Future Developments
- XII Conclusion: A Grand Strategy of Mobilization and Simultaneity
- Main Text
- Part 1 Delimitation of the Problem
- One Human Rights in Comprehensive Context
- The Rising Common Demands
- Inadequate Responses—Deprivations and Nonfulfillment of Human Rights
- Conditions Affecting Deprivations and Nonfulfillments
- Inadequacies in Inquiry: The Intellectual Confusion about Human Rights
- Human Rights in Policy-Oriented Perspective
- Two The Social Setting of Human Rights: The Process of Deprivation and Nonfulfillment of Values
- Three Claims Made to Authority for the Protection of Human Rights
- Four The Global Constitutive Process of Authoritative Decision
- The Major Features of Contemporary Constitutive Process
- Participation
- Perspectives
- Arenas
- Base Values
- Strategies
- Outcomes
- The Intelligence Function
- The Promoting Function
- The Prescribing Function
- The Invoking Function
- The Applying Function
- Bilateral Negotiations between the States Concerned
- Proceedings before the Human Rights Committee
- Proceedings before an Ad Hoc Conciliation Commission
- Proceedings before the European Commission of Human Rights
- Proceedings before the European Court of Human Rights
- Proceedings before the Committee of Ministers
- The Terminating Function
- The Appraising Function
- The Human Rights Prescriptions as an Emerging Global Bill of Rights
- The Major Features of Contemporary Constitutive Process
- One Human Rights in Comprehensive Context
- Part 2 The Clarification of General Community Policies
- Five The Basic Policies of a Comprehensive Public Order of Human Dignity
- The Observational Standpoint: Identification with the Whole of Humankind
- The Perspectives of a Comprehensive World Public Order: Clarifying Policies
- The Postulation of the Goal Values of Human Dignity
- The Conception of Common Interest
- The Accommodation of Interests in Particular Instances
- Principles of Content
- Principles of Procedure
- The Contextual Principle
- The Principle of Economy
- The Principle of Manifest (Provisional) Focus
- The Principle of Clarified Focus
- The Principle of Observing Trends in Past Experience
- The Principle of Realistic Orientation in Factors Affecting Decision
- The Principle of Observing the Constraints of Future Probabilities
- The Principle of Evaluating and Inventing Options in Decision
- The Significance of Past Trends
- The Analysis of Factors Conditioning Trends
- The Projection of Probable Future Developments
- The Invention and Evaluation of Alternatives: Looking Toward an Optimum Public Order of Human Dignity
- Five The Basic Policies of a Comprehensive Public Order of Human Dignity
- Part 3 Trends in Decision and Conditioning Factors: Claims Relating to Respect
- Six Respect as the Core Value of Human Rights
- Seven Claims Relating to Fundamental Freedom of Choice
- Eight Claims Relating to a Basic Equality of Opportunity and Freedom from Discrimination
- Nine Claims Relating to Racial Discrimination
- Ten The Outlawing of Sex-Based Discrimination
- Eleven Claims Relating to Freedom from Religious Discrimination
- Twelve Claims for Freedom from Discrimination because of Nonconforming Political Opinion
- Thirteen Claims for Freedom from Discrimination in Choice of Language
- Fourteen The Protection of Aliens from Discrimination: State Responsibility Conjoined with Human Rights
- Fifteen The Protection of the Aged from Discrimination
- Part 4 Future Prospects
- Part 1 Delimitation of the Problem
- Further Material
- Appendix Nationality and Human Rights: The Protection of the Individual in External Arenas
- Delimitation of the Problem
- The Clarification of General Community Policy
- Trends in Decision and Conditioning Factors
- Appraisal and Recommendations
- Table of Cases
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- Appendix Nationality and Human Rights: The Protection of the Individual in External Arenas
