The Persistent Power of Human Rights: From Commitment to Compliance
ISBN: 9781107609365 | 1107609364
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 4/15/2013
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This book offers a unique combination of quantitative and qualitative research arguing for the persistent power of human rights norms.
The Persistent Power of Human Rights provides an important contribution to the world's emerging human rights agenda, tackling key questions, including why some established democracies continue to engage in proscribed behaviours such as torture. Using a unique blend of qualitative and quantitative research, it will engage academics, policymakers and practitioners.
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The Persistent Power of Human Rights provides an important contribution to the world's emerging human rights agenda, tackling key questions, including why some established democracies continue to engage in proscribed behaviours such as torture. Using a unique blend of qualitative and quantitative research, it will engage academics, policymakers and practitioners.
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| Introduction and Stock-Taking: | |
| Introduction and overview | |
| The power of human rights a decade after: from euphoria to contestation? | |
| From ratification to compliance: quantitative evidence on the spiral model | |
| Conceptual and Methodological Issues: | |
| Human rights in areas of limited statehood: the new agenda | |
| The 'compliance gap' and the efficacy of international human rights instituti... MORE | |
| Social mechanisms to promote international human rights: complementary or contradictory? | |
| From Ratification to Compliance: States Revisited: | |
| The normative context of human rights criticism: treaty ratification and UN mechanisms | |
| The US and torture: does the spiral model work? | |
| Resisting the power of human rights: the people's Republic of China | |
| The 'Arab spring' and the spiral model: Tunisia and Morocco | |
| From Commitment to Compliance: Companies, Rebel, Individuals: | |
| Encouraging greater compliance: local networks and the United Nations global compact | |
| Business and human rights: how corporate norm violators become norm entrepreneurs | |
| Taming of the warlords: commitment and compliance by armed opposition groups in civil wars | |
| Changing hearts and minds: sexual politics and human rights | |
| Conclusions | |
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