The politics of human rights protection : moving intervention upstream with impact assessment / Jan Knippers Black.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The human rights perspective and the need for impact assessment -- What's in a name? Deconstructing human rights terms and concepts -- The dialectics of building an international human rights regime -- Human rights cleavages and controversies : the discourse -- The globalization of vulnerability -- From the ashes : Argentina's return from meltdown -- Participation and accountability -- Wayfarers in a walled-up world -- Chile's long way home -- The political dimensions of diversity -- Feminism, democracy, and self-determination : the Taiwanese experience -- The naked ape in nature : master or guardian? -- China's three gorges : the dam and the damned -- From sustainable war to sustainable peace -- Against all odds : East Timor's quest for independence -- Empire as a state of war -- Terror and the war to end all rights -- Cautious mainstreaming, constructive subversion -- Conclusion : playing from strength.