Constructing the nation in opposition: human rights as strategic building blocks, a comparative analysis of Sinn Féin and the IRA, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, and Hamas.
Scholars of nationalism contend the nation or national identity is an artificial construction and they acknowledge one cannot create something from nothing -- a kind of "building block" is required. For some socio-political movements, including those that use violence, human rights violati...
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| Summary: | Scholars of nationalism contend the nation or national identity is an artificial construction and they acknowledge one cannot create something from nothing -- a kind of "building block" is required. For some socio-political movements, including those that use violence, human rights violations become building blocks. The power of violations as a building block is grounded in their real and perceived importance in both the domestic and international political and legal
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