Stephen Hopgood
Biographic Data
| ID | 4085582 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Hopgood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Hopgood |
| SIGNATURE | HOPGOOD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | SOAS University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6371-9544 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 102 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Discussion of Kathryn Sikkink's Evidence for Hope
Since their emergence in the late eighteenth century, doctrines of universal individual rights have been variously criticized as philosophically confused, politically inefficacious, ideologically particular, and Eurocentric. Nevertheless, today the discourse of universal human rights is more internationally widespread and influential than ever. In Evidence for Hope , leading international relations scholar Kathryn Sikkink argues that this is beca…
Human Rights Futures
Human Rights Futures
For the first time in one collected volume, mainstream and critical human rights scholars together examine the empirical and normative debates around the future of human rights. They ask what makes human rights effective, what strategies will enhance the chances of compliance, what blocks progress, and whether the hope for human rights is entirely misplaced in a rapidly transforming world. Human Rights Futures sees the world as at a crucial junct…
Humanitarian invasion
Ask anyone to name the most failed of failed states and the chances are high that a majority would say Afghanistan. Cursed, rather than blessed, by its pivotal strategic location bordering Central
The Last Rites for Humanitarian Intervention
The politics of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) are interwoven with the ghosts of Rwanda and Srebrenica. Although R2P can clearly be seen as an attempt to legitimate intervening in sovereign states to protect human rights, the post-2001 emphasis of advocates on intervention actually reduced the chances of truly humanitarian action by complicating the calculations of sovereigns faced with unpredictable political risks. As the military dimensio…
Keepers of the Flame
"If one organization is synonymous with keeping hope alive, even as a faint glimmer in the darkness of a prison, it is Amnesty International. Amnesty has been the light, and that light was truth—bearing witness to suffering hidden from the eyes of the world."—from Keepers of the Flame The first in-depth look at working life inside a major human rights organization, Keepers of the Flame charts the history of Amnesty International and the developme…
Faith in Markets
This chapter provides a glimpse of the strategies and decisions made within the humanitarian marketplace. It introduces World Vision International, which is one of the dominant organizations providing secular relief around the world. It then studies the behavior of international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) and faith-based organizations (FBOs) in the humanitarian world, and explains the practices and strategies of humanitarians. The next…
Dignity and Ennui
Amnesty International, for many the archetypal global human rights non-governmental organization (NGO), is nearly 50. Since its birth in 1961, it has outlived many regimes and institutions that were its political midwives, from the Cold War, the Soviet Union and apartheid to the final eclipse of the British and French Empires; from sectarian violence in Northern Ireland to dictatorship in Portugal, Spain, and Greece. This remarkable longevity has…
Moral Authority, Modernity and the Politics of the Sacred
Capitalist modernity's paradox is to erode explicitly the social capital it relies on implicitly to mobilize people to act in concert when they share neither an identity nor an interest. Monetization and rules are the exemplary mechanisms for realizing modernity's aim of commensurability between all social qualities. Simmel helps us see this. But these abstractions create an authority vacuum. The experience of Amnesty International, emblem of mod…
Human Rights in the Global Information Society
Human Rights in the Global Information Society. Edited by Rikke Frank Jørgensen. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. 324p. $25.00. The various authors in this book are activists and scholars associated, in one way or another, with the Human Rights Caucus of the World Summit on the Information Society held in Geneva (2003) and Tunis (2005). They share a “firm commitment to promoting human rights standards as an essential baseline for the assessment an…
Reading the Small Print in Global Civil Society
Keepers of the Flame
"If one organization is synonymous with keeping hope alive, even as a faint glimmer in the darkness of a prison, it is Amnesty International. Amnesty has been the light, and that light was truth—bearing witness to suffering hidden from the eyes of the world."—from Keepers of the Flame The first in-depth look at working life inside a major human rights organization, Keepers of the Flame charts the history of Amnesty International and the developme…
Reading the Small Print in Global Civil Society
Moral Authority, Modernity and the Politics of the Sacred
Capitalist modernity's paradox is to erode explicitly the social capital it relies on implicitly to mobilize people to act in concert when they share neither an identity nor an interest. Monetization and rules are the exemplary mechanisms for realizing modernity's aim of commensurability between all social qualities. Simmel helps us see this. But these abstractions create an authority vacuum. The experience of Amnesty International, emblem of mod…
Dignity and Ennui
Amnesty International, for many the archetypal global human rights non-governmental organization (NGO), is nearly 50. Since its birth in 1961, it has outlived many regimes and institutions that were its political midwives, from the Cold War, the Soviet Union and apartheid to the final eclipse of the British and French Empires; from sectarian violence in Northern Ireland to dictatorship in Portugal, Spain, and Greece. This remarkable longevity has…
Reading the Small Print in Global Civil Society
Human Rights in the Global Information Society
Human Rights in the Global Information Society. Edited by Rikke Frank Jørgensen. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. 324p. $25.00. The various authors in this book are activists and scholars associated, in one way or another, with the Human Rights Caucus of the World Summit on the Information Society held in Geneva (2003) and Tunis (2005). They share a “firm commitment to promoting human rights standards as an essential baseline for the assessment an…
Moral Authority, Modernity and the Politics of the Sacred
Capitalist modernity's paradox is to erode explicitly the social capital it relies on implicitly to mobilize people to act in concert when they share neither an identity nor an interest. Monetization and rules are the exemplary mechanisms for realizing modernity's aim of commensurability between all social qualities. Simmel helps us see this. But these abstractions create an authority vacuum. The experience of Amnesty International, emblem of mod…
Dignity and Ennui
Amnesty International, for many the archetypal global human rights non-governmental organization (NGO), is nearly 50. Since its birth in 1961, it has outlived many regimes and institutions that were its political midwives, from the Cold War, the Soviet Union and apartheid to the final eclipse of the British and French Empires; from sectarian violence in Northern Ireland to dictatorship in Portugal, Spain, and Greece. This remarkable longevity has…
Faith in Markets
This chapter provides a glimpse of the strategies and decisions made within the humanitarian marketplace. It introduces World Vision International, which is one of the dominant organizations providing secular relief around the world. It then studies the behavior of international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) and faith-based organizations (FBOs) in the humanitarian world, and explains the practices and strategies of humanitarians. The next…
Keepers of the Flame
"If one organization is synonymous with keeping hope alive, even as a faint glimmer in the darkness of a prison, it is Amnesty International. Amnesty has been the light, and that light was truth—bearing witness to suffering hidden from the eyes of the world."—from Keepers of the Flame The first in-depth look at working life inside a major human rights organization, Keepers of the Flame charts the history of Amnesty International and the developme…
The Last Rites for Humanitarian Intervention
The politics of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) are interwoven with the ghosts of Rwanda and Srebrenica. Although R2P can clearly be seen as an attempt to legitimate intervening in sovereign states to protect human rights, the post-2001 emphasis of advocates on intervention actually reduced the chances of truly humanitarian action by complicating the calculations of sovereigns faced with unpredictable political risks. As the military dimensio…
Human Rights Futures
For the first time in one collected volume, mainstream and critical human rights scholars together examine the empirical and normative debates around the future of human rights. They ask what makes human rights effective, what strategies will enhance the chances of compliance, what blocks progress, and whether the hope for human rights is entirely misplaced in a rapidly transforming world. Human Rights Futures sees the world as at a crucial junct…
Humanitarian invasion
Ask anyone to name the most failed of failed states and the chances are high that a majority would say Afghanistan. Cursed, rather than blessed, by its pivotal strategic location bordering Central
Human Rights Futures
A Discussion of Kathryn Sikkink's Evidence for Hope
Since their emergence in the late eighteenth century, doctrines of universal individual rights have been variously criticized as philosophically confused, politically inefficacious, ideologically particular, and Eurocentric. Nevertheless, today the discourse of universal human rights is more internationally widespread and influential than ever. In Evidence for Hope , leading international relations scholar Kathryn Sikkink argues that this is beca…
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