Recounts the struggle for human rights across the ages and synthesizes historical and intellectual developments since the Mesopotamian Codes of Hammurabi. This book chronicles the clash of social movements, ideas, and armies that have played a part in this struggle, and illustrates how the history of human rights has evolved.

The essays help us ponder the most profound question in world politics today: who will the twenty-first century be for?

A vivid and accurate new rendition of Plato's classic work of political thought.