Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. INTRODUCTION What Is Defensive Relativism? 1
5. PART I Defining Defensive Relativism
6. CHAPTER 1 The First Element of Defensive Relativism: Antiuniversalism 25
7. CHAPTER 2 State Construction of Culture: The Second Element of Defensive Relativism 47
8. CHAPTER 3 Legal Exemption: The Final Element of Defensive Relativism 72
9. PART II Defensive Relativism at Work: Three Case Studies
10. CHAPTER 4 The ASEAN Human Rights Declaration: Defensive Relativism by Design 103
11. CHAPTER 5 Defensive Relativism in State Submissions to the European Court of Human Rights on the Freedom of Religion 127
12. CHAPTER 6 Defensive Relativism in the Justification of CEDAW Reservations in Universal Periodic Review 147
13. PART III Situating Defensive Relativism
14. CHAPTER 7 Conceptually Positioning Defensive Relativism 165
15. CHAPTER 8 End-States: How Defensive Relativism Protects Sovereignty 189
16. CONCLUSION Defensive Relativism: The Human Rights Practitioner’s Conundrum 213
17. NOTES 229
18. BIBLIOGRAPHY 295
19. INDEX 309