Nationalism and human rights in theory and practice in the Middle East, Central Europe, and the Asia-Pacific

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: -- Foreword -- Zehra Arat * The Contending Forces of Nationalism and Human Rights: An introduction to the dimensions of the debate -- Grace Cheng * Nationalist Ruling Parties in Post-Colonial Nation-States in North Africa -- Moncef Khaddaf * Human Rights as a Security Challenge: An examination of Turkish nationalist discourse on minority rights reformations -- Beyza Tekin * All in the Name of Human Rights: Australian nationalism and multiculturalism -- Troy Whitford * Migrants at Home: The impact of Israeli land policy and patrilocal residence on Palestinian women in Israel -- Lilian Abou-Tabickh * National Rights, Minority Rights, and Ethnic Cleansing -- Omar Dahbour * Cosmopolitan Citizenship as a Thin Concept: Who is willing to die for it? -- Filiz Fartal * The Contradictions of Human Rights and Sovereignty in Postwar Historical Practice -- Grace Cheng * Taming the Nation-State: Human rights and peoples -- Mitch Avila * Conclusion: Nationalism versus human rights -- Füsun Türkmen.

"This collection of essays explores the relationship between nationalism and human rights by probing from various angles the nature of nationalism and the normative orientation of human rights. By critically addressing the tension between nationalism and human rights that is presumed in much of the existing literature, the essays in this volume confront the question of how we should construe human rights: as a normative challenge to the excesses of modernity, particularly those associated with the modern nation-state, or as an adjunct of globalization, with its attendant goal of constructing a universal civilization based on neoliberal economic principles and individual liberty"--Provided by publisher.