The Politics of Human Rights provides an engaging and systematic introductory overview of the nature and development of human rights.

Andrew Vincent is currently Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Politics, Sheffield University. He was formerly Professor of Political Theory and co-director of the Collingwood and British Idealism Centre at Cardiff University. He is now Director of the Centre for Political Theory and Ideologies at Sheffield University and associate editor of The Journal of Political Ideologies and Collingwood and British Idealism Studies. He was a former Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Australian National University and a Visiting Professor in the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Professor Vincent is an internationally respected specialist on political theory. His book The Nature of Political Theory (published by Oxford University Press) won the W.J.M. Mackenzie book prize.

• Preface


• Introduction


• 1: Rights


• 2: The Context of Rights


• 3: The Twilight of Natural Rights


• 4: From Genocide to Human Rights


• 5: Structures of Human Rights


• 6: The Political Dialectic of Human Rights


• 7: The Human Rights of Politics


• 8: Citizenship and Human Rights


• Conclusion


• Bibliography