This work looks at political and cultural struggles to control the human rights regime with respect to property, the state, the environment, and women. It examines the dynamics and counterdynamics of of transnational networks in their interactions with local actors in Iran, China, and Hong Kong.

Part I The Struggle to Control the Human Rights Regime; Chapter 1 Who Owns Our Culture?, Caren Irr; Chapter 2 The Consequences of a Constructed Universal, Neil A. Englehart; Chapter 3 Reflections on the Intersections of Environment, Development, and Human Rights in the Context of Globalization, Kavita Philip; Chapter 4 Translating a Liberal Feminism, Ellen M. Freeberg; Part II The Dynamics and Counterdynamics of Globalization; Chapter 5 The Politics of Culture and Human Rights in Iran, Mahmood Monshipouri; Chapter 6 Outside Actors and the Pursuit of Civil Society in China, Rebecca R. Moore; Chapter 7 Globalization and Human Rights for Workers in China, Dorothy J. Solinger; Chapter 8 Localizing Human Rights in an Era of Globalization, Linda Butenhoff; Part III Setting the Terms of Debate; Chapter 9 The Challenges to International Human Rights, Joanne Bauer; Chapter 10 Obstacles on the Road to an Overlapping Consensus on Human Rights, Charles Lockhart; Chapter 11 Globalizing Cultural Values, Chenyang Li; Chapter 12 Suffering as Common Ground, John K. Downey; conclusion Conclusion, Andrew J. Nathan, Mahmood Monshipouri, Neil A. Englehart, Kavita Philip;

Mahmood Monshipouri, Neil Englehart, Andrew J. Nathan, Kavita Philip