Constructing Democracy

Introduction: Human Rights and the Construction of Democracy -- Settling Accounts with the Past: Human Rights in Processes of Regime Transition -- Adjusting the Armed Forces to Democracy: Successes, Failures, and Ambiguities in the Southern Cone -- Human Rights in Democratization Processes -- The International Scene: Networks and Discourses -- The Emergence, Evolution, and Effectiveness of the Latin American Human Rights Network -- The Looting of Democratic Discourse by the Guatemalan Military: Implications for Human Rights -- Citizenship in Democracy: Some Conceptual Issues -- Citizenship Revisited: Solidarity, Responsibility, and Rights -- The State, the Market, and Democratic Citizenship -- Structures of Discrimination: Individual and Collective Rights -- Indigenous Rights: Some Conceptual Problems -- Racial Inequalities in Brazil and Throughout Latin America: Timid Responses to Disguised Racism -- Women, Gender, and Human Rights -- Crime and Individual Rights: Reframing the Question of Violence in Latin America -- Conclusion -- Convergence and Diversity: Reflections on Human Rights