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UN Human Rights Commission, Universal Declaration of Human
208 Rights (UDHR), 62, 73, 77, 204
UN Security Council, 74, 210–211 Universal human rights, European
UN Summit (1992), 189 Union citizenship and, 183–184
United States. See also African- Unocal, 229
Americans Urbinati, Nadia, 202
citizenship rights in, 138 Urry, John, 51–52, 82
discrimination for sexual
orientation in, 157 V
family reunion and migrant van Audenhove, Leo, 226
workers in, 177 Vertical networks, 65
human rights imperialism and, Voluntary associations, 60
77–78 Voter turnout, 196
illegal immigration in, 178 Voting procedures, Inter-
immigration in, 162, 163–164 Governmental Organizations,
as incoherent empire, 76–77 209–211
individual rights and nationality in,
179–180 W
interventions by, 74–75, 205, Walby, Sylvia, 138–139
212–213 Wallach, Lori, 217
invasions of Iraq, 75–76, 205, Wallerstein, Immaneul, 47–49
212–213 War on terror
multicultural ideal and, 165 shift in power to executive branch
multinationalism in, 166 and, 66
political parties in, 197–198 state sovereignty and, 66–67
polyethnicity in, 166–167 Washington Consensus, 70, 212, 217,
Poor People’s Economic Human 227
Rights Campaign in, 208 Way of life, culture as, 238
power in Inter-Governmental Wealth, polarization of, 142–143
Organizations, 210–211 Wealth of developed societies,
power of judiciary in, 67 increase in social movement
redistricting in, 170 activity and, 95
reduction in social rights in, 142 Weber, Max, 2–3
rights of non-citizens post-9/11 in, on democracy, 10–11
181 on power, 9
use of Alien Tort Claims Act in, theory of state, 9–10
229–230 Weberian tradition of political
use of underclass to describe poor sociology, 9–15
in, 144–145 elite theorists, 11–13
world society and, 60 pluralism, 13–15
U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roper Weber, 9–11
v Simmons, 207–208 Welfare reform, 142, 146–147,
U.S. Treasury, Washington Consensus 208
and, 70 Welfare rights, 36–37