Rights as Weapons: Instruments of Conflict, Tools of Power

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An in-depth look at the historic and strategic deployment of rights in political conflicts throughout the world Rights are usually viewed as defensive concepts representing mankind's highest aspirations to protect the vulnerable and uplift the downtrodden. But since the Enlightenment, political combatants have also used rights belligerently, to

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"The central argument of the book and the illustrations supporting it are extremely interesting. . . . Bobs account of fields of argumentation as battlefields and his account of some rights arguments as weapons is a metaphorical account with dramatic impact."---Mervyn Frost, European Review of International Studies

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Clifford Bob is professor and chair of political science at Duquesne University. His previous books include The Marketing of Rebellion, The Global Right Wing and the Clash of World Politics, and The International Struggle for New Human Rights. Twitter @cliffordbob