Achieving human rights

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Toward a necessary utopianism: democratic global governance -- The power of rights and the rights of power: what future for human rights? -- Orientalism and international law -- Toward global democracy -- Citizenship and globalization -- The Holocaust and the emergence of international human rights -- The Pinochet moment: whither universal jurisdiction? -- Genocide at the world court: the case against Serbia -- A descending spiral -- Encroaching on the rule of law: counter-terrorist justifications -- Humanitarian intervention -- Crimes, lies, and law: human rights in adversity -- Humanity in question -- The ideal of the citizen pilgrim.