Jan Hancock
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673968 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan Hancock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan |
| FAMILY NAME | Hancock |
| SIGNATURE | HANCOCK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Environmental Human Rights: Power, ethics and law
Human rights narrative in the George W. Bush Administrations
This article examines the human rights claims made by the George W. Bush Administrations of their post 9/11 foreign and security policy. Two common scholastic explanations of this narrative are evaluated: (i) that human rights constitute, at least in part, independent foreign policy goals and; (ii) that the human rights claims of policymakers can be dismissed as hypocritical rhetoric. The article informs and progresses this debate by revisiting t…
Woodrow Wilson revisited: Human rights discourse in the foreign policy of the George W. Bush Administration
The George W. Bush Administrations presented foreign policy in terms of universal liberal values, including human rights. This has led to a number of scholastic comparisons being drawn with the foreign policy of Woodrow Wilson. This article seeks to contribute to this debate by identifying and accounting for three internal rules common to the human rights discourse expressed by the Wilson and Bush Administrations. Bush is argued to indeed be an i…
Toxic Pollution as a Right to Harm Others: Contradictions in Feinberg's Formulation of the Harm Principle
Environmental Human Rights: Power, Ethics and Law
Doing something without doing anything: International human rights law and the challenge of globalisation
International human rights law dominates both the literature and practice of human rights. Although the limitations of international law are sometimes tacitly acknowledged, human rights talk continues to pin its hopes on legal solutions. This article attempts to question the efficacy of such an approach. The argument begins by looking at the relationship between traditional approaches to international relations, international law and human rights…
Doing something without doing anything: International human rights law and the challenge of globalisation
International human rights law dominates both the literature and practice of human rights. Although the limitations of international law are sometimes tacitly acknowledged, human rights talk continues to pin its hopes on legal solutions. This article attempts to question the efficacy of such an approach. The argument begins by looking at the relationship between traditional approaches to international relations, international law and human rights…
Doing something without doing anything: International human rights law and the challenge of globalisation
International human rights law dominates both the literature and practice of human rights. Although the limitations of international law are sometimes tacitly acknowledged, human rights talk continues to pin its hopes on legal solutions. This article attempts to question the efficacy of such an approach. The argument begins by looking at the relationship between traditional approaches to international relations, international law and human rights…
Environmental Human Rights: Power, Ethics and Law
Toxic Pollution as a Right to Harm Others: Contradictions in Feinberg's Formulation of the Harm Principle
Woodrow Wilson revisited: Human rights discourse in the foreign policy of the George W. Bush Administration
The George W. Bush Administrations presented foreign policy in terms of universal liberal values, including human rights. This has led to a number of scholastic comparisons being drawn with the foreign policy of Woodrow Wilson. This article seeks to contribute to this debate by identifying and accounting for three internal rules common to the human rights discourse expressed by the Wilson and Bush Administrations. Bush is argued to indeed be an i…
Human rights narrative in the George W. Bush Administrations
This article examines the human rights claims made by the George W. Bush Administrations of their post 9/11 foreign and security policy. Two common scholastic explanations of this narrative are evaluated: (i) that human rights constitute, at least in part, independent foreign policy goals and; (ii) that the human rights claims of policymakers can be dismissed as hypocritical rhetoric. The article informs and progresses this debate by revisiting t…
Environmental Human Rights: Power, ethics and law
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Human rights (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law and economics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works) · Environmental justice (2 works) · Foreign policy (2 works)