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020			_a9781139046527 (ebook)
020			_z9780521857772 (hardback)
020			_z9780521674485 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aK3240 _b.R485 2013
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100	1		_aReus-Smit, Christian, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aIndividual Rights and the Making of the International System / _cChristian Reus-Smit.
246	3		_aIndividual Rights & the Making of the International System
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_a1 online resource (250 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aWe live today in the first global system of sovereign states in history, encompassing all of the world's polities, peoples, religions and civilizations. Christian Reus-Smit presents a new account of how this system came to be, one in which struggles for individual rights play a central role. The international system expanded from its original European core in five great waves, each involving the fragmentation of one or more empires into a host of successor sovereign states. In the most important, associated with the Westphalian settlement, the independence of Latin America, and post-1945 decolonization, the mobilization of new ideas about individual rights challenged imperial legitimacy, and when empires failed to recognize these new rights, subject peoples sought sovereign independence. Combining theoretical innovation with detailed historical case studies, this book advances a new understanding of human rights and world politics, with individual rights deeply implicated in the making of the global sovereign order.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521857772
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139046527
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c37370 _d37370