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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword / Kesete, Semere -- Preface -- Chapter 1. The Thrill Is Gone -- Chapter 2. A Phenomenology of Joy as Transgressive Affect -- Chapter 3. Whither Joy? -- Chapter 4. Joyful Activists -- Chapter 5. Joyful Perpetrators -- Chapter 6. Joyful Martyrs -- Chapter 7. Human Rights Winners -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Acknowledgments

This week we ask: if the international community can't make states abide by their human rights obligations, what's the point of invoking human rights?

Turkey's mixed human rights record has been highly politicized in the debate surrounding the country's probable ascendance to membership in the European Union. Beginning with the foundation of a secular republic in 1923, and continuing with founding membership in the United Nations and participation in the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Turkey made significant commitments to the advancement of human rights. However, its authoritarian tradition, periods of military rule, increasing social inequality, and economic crises have led to policies that undermine human rights. While legislative reforms and civil social activism since the 1980s have contributed greatly to the advancement of human rights, recent progress is threatened by the rise of nationalism, persistent gender inequality, and economic hardship. In Human Rights in Turkey, twenty-one Turkish and international scholars from various disciplines examine human rights policies and conditions since the 1920s, at the intersection of domestic and international politics, as they relate to all spheres of life in Turkey. A wide range of rights, such as freedom of the press and religion, minority, women's, and workers' rights, and the right to education, are examined in the context of the history and current conditions of the Republic of Turkey. In light of the events of September 11, 2001, and subsequent developments in the Middle East, recent proposals about modeling other Muslim countries after Turkey add urgency to an in-depth study of Turkish politics and the causal links with human rights. The scholarship presented in Human Rights in Turkey holds significant implications for the study of human rights in the Middle East and around the globe

ABSTRACTHuman rights issues are closely connected to a range of political
processes, from democracy and conflict resolution to judicial
accountability and terrorism. Despite the dramatic growth of the
human rights field in recent years, however, it remains unclear how
much the subject has influenced political science scholarship. I
assess this question by examining broad publishing trends, namely
human rights articles in the discipline's leading journals.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Movement -- 2. Putting Natural Law Principles into Practice -- 3. What Are Rights? -- 4. International Human Rights Law -- 5. International Humanitarian Law -- 6. Defying Communism -- 7. Rights on the Other Side of the Cold War Divide -- 8. Amnesty International -- 9. Human Rights Watch -- 10. The Worldwide Movement -- 11. Accountability -- 12. Rights after 9/11 -- 13. Going Forward -- Notes -- Index

Science and Human Rights -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- OVERVIEW -- THE SYMPOSIUM -- TORTURE, PSYCHIATRIC ABUSE, AND THE ETHICS OF MEDICINE -- HUMAN RIGHTS, HUMAN NEEDS, AND SCIENTIFIC FREEDOM -- HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMAN SURVIVAL -- WELCOMING REMARKS -- INTRODUCTION -- Part 1 Torture, Psychiatric Abuse, and the Ethics of Medicine -- INTRODUCTION -- THE WORK OF THE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF CHILE -- COMMENTS -- COMMENTS -- COMMENTS -- QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS -- GERARD DEBREU -- DOUGLAS SAMUELSON, AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION, COMMITTEE ON SCIENTIFIC FREEDOM AND HUMAN RIGHTS -- JUAN LUÍS GONZÁLEZ -- HELEN RANNEY -- JUAN LUÍS GONZÁLEZ -- HELEN RANNEY -- JUAN LUÍS GONZÁLEZ -- JOEL LEBOWITZ, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY -- ALBERT SOLNIT -- VIRGINIA M. BOUVIER, WASHINGTON OFFICE ON LATIN AMERICA -- JUAN LUÍS GONZÁLEZ -- VIRGINIA M. BOUVIER -- JUAN LUÍS GONZÁLEZ -- PARTICIPANT -- M. ALFRED HAYNES -- Part 2 Human Rights, Human Needs, and Scientific Freedom -- INTRODUCTION -- APARTHEID IN SOUTH AFRICA -- COMMENTS -- COMMENTS -- COMMENTS -- QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS -- GILBERT WHITE -- LIPMAN BERS -- GILBERT WHITE -- PRESTON CLOUD, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA -- GILBERT WHITE -- PRESTON CLOUD -- ISMAIL MOHAMED -- GILBERT WHITE -- ROBERT KATES -- ELIZABETH RUSSELL, JACKSON LABORATORY, BAR HARBOR, MAINE -- ISMAIL MOHAMED -- GILBERT WHITE -- ISMAIL MOHAMED -- EDWARD ANDERS, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO -- ISMAIL MOHAMED -- GILBERT WHITE -- Part 3 Human Rights and Human Survival -- INTRODUCTION -- THE SOVIET UNION, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND NATIONAL SECURITY -- COMMENTS -- COMMENTS -- COMMENTS -- QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS -- FRANCIS LOW -- YURI ORLOV -- LIPMAN BERS -- YURI ORLOV -- LIPMAN BERS -- JOEL LEBOWITZ, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY -- ELIOT STELLAR -- WALTER KOHN, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA -- LIPMAN BERS -- E-AN ZEN, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.

Results of a survey on the international teaching of human rights within the discipline of political science on the university level.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Introduction -- PART I. FOUNDATIONS: LEGITIMACY OF A REGIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS REGIME IN THE ABSENCE OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY -- PART II. APPLICATIONS: ASSESSING THE REGIONAL DYNAMICS OF HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITMENT AND COMPLIANCE -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS