China, the United Nations, and Human Rights
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China, the United Nations, and Human RightsThe Limits of ComplianceAnn KentAn ambitious and impressive undertaking that makes a significant contribution to the understanding of how international regimes function and how China interacts with the international order.--R. Randle Edwards, Columbia UniversityImpressive. . . . Rarely does one encounter such fine, readable scholarship on such a timely, complex issue.--ChoiceKent combines primary and secondary research into a detailed case study that tells us important things about both Chinas relations with the external world and the strengths and limits of contemporary multilateral human rights institutions.--Jack Donnelly, University of DenverAnn Kents China, the United Nations, and Human Rights is remarkable in that it provides both an in-depth analysis of Chinas human rights policy and its interaction with the various United Nations organs concerned with human rights, and an assessment of the UN human rights regimes success. . . . For all these reasons, and because it is so well written and researched, Ann Kents new book is a much-welcomed, much-needed addition to the study of human rights and China.--Global JusticeSelected by Choice magazine as a Outstanding Academic Book, 2000Nelson Mandela once said, Human rights have become the focal point of international relations. This has certainly become true in American relations with the Peoples Republic of China. Ann Kents book documents Chinas compliance with the norms and rules of international treaties, and serves as a case study of the effectiveness of the international human rights regime, that network of international consensual agreements concerning acceptable treatment of individuals at the hands of nation-states.Since the early 1980s, and particularly since 1989, by means of vigorous monitoring and the strict maintenance of standards, United Nations human rights organizations have encouraged China to move away from its insistence o
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