The Human Rights Turn and the Paradox of Progress in the Middle East

• Main Author: Hosseinioun, Mishana (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Middle East Today
• Subjects: Middle East-Politics and government.; Regionalism.; Social justice.; Human rights.; Political science.; Democracy.; Middle Eastern Politics.; Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.; Human Rights.; Governance and Government.

This book aims to shift the limited and often negative popular understanding of the Middle East's place in the world by chronicling the region's contributions to the international order rather than disorder, and to the development of the international human rights system. It elucidates the...