5 Best Books on Human Rights

A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis, by David Rieff.  Simon & Schuster, 2002.

Development as Freedom, by Amartya Sen.  Knopf, 1999.

Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry, by Michael Ignatieff.  Princeton University Press, 2001.

A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror, by Alfred W. McCoy.  Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt and Co., 2006.

The Warrior’s Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience, by Michael Ignatieff.  Metropolitan Books, 1998.

David P. Forsythe, Political Science, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, [email protected]. Author of: The Politics of Prisoner Abuse: US Policy toward Enemy Prisoners after 9/11; Human Rights in International Relations (3rd ed.); The Humanitarians: The International Committee of the Red Cross.  Editor of: The Encyclopedia of Human Rights. http://polisci.unl.edu/dr-david-forsythe