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At the time of the adoption of the American Declaration on the
Rights and Duties of Man in 1948, there was little indication that
the Declaration would ultimately yield a highly institutionalized
system comprised of a quasi-judicial Inter-American Commission and
an authoritative Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Today,
however, the Inter-American Human Rights System (IAHRS) has emerged
as a central actor in the global human rights regime. This
comprehensive volume explores the institutional changes and
transformations that the IAHRS has undergone since its creation,
offering contributions and insights from a variety of disciplines
including history, law, and political science. The book shows how
institutional change has affected and been affected by the System's
normative leanings, rules of procedure and institutional design, as
well as by the position of the IAHRS within the broader landscape
of the Americas. The authors examine institutional change from a
variety of angles, including the process of change in historical
context, normative and legal developments, and the dynamic
relationship between the IAHRS and other regional and international
human rights institutions. This book was originally published as a
special issue of The International Journal of Human Rights.
The aim of this book is to analyse why and how states respond to
human security, both at home and abroad. Although states still
define security as "the defense of territory" from military attack,
increasingly security pertains to the protection of human beings
from violence. This violence can emerge from rebels, drug
traffickers, terrorism, and even environmental and demographic
changes. While previous literature in this field has provided rich
empirical detail about human security crises, it is generally quiet
about how states respond to these crises. State Responses to Human
Security fills this lacuna by bringing in concepts from
international security studies and focusing on states' perceptions
of power and the changing nature of human security. Instead of
debating whether or not human security exists, the authors in this
volume agree that human security has been redefined to include
policies associated with violence toward individuals and groups,
and draw on recent events in the Middle East, China and Mexico to
understand how and when human security issues prompt state
responses and affect international relations. The case studies
analysed in this book suggest that states respond to human security
threats differently, but in both the domestic context and abroad,
power and perceptions matter greatly in shaping states' reactions
to human security concerns. This book will be of much interest to
students of human security, foreign policy, international relations
and security studies in general.
At the time of the adoption of the American Declaration on the
Rights and Duties of Man in 1948, there was little indication that
the Declaration would ultimately yield a highly institutionalized
system comprised of a quasi-judicial Inter-American Commission and
an authoritative Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Today,
however, the Inter-American Human Rights System (IAHRS) has emerged
as a central actor in the global human rights regime. This
comprehensive volume explores the institutional changes and
transformations that the IAHRS has undergone since its creation,
offering contributions and insights from a variety of disciplines
including history, law, and political science. The book shows how
institutional change has affected and been affected by the System's
normative leanings, rules of procedure and institutional design, as
well as by the position of the IAHRS within the broader landscape
of the Americas. The authors examine institutional change from a
variety of angles, including the process of change in historical
context, normative and legal developments, and the dynamic
relationship between the IAHRS and other regional and international
human rights institutions. This book was originally published as a
special issue of The International Journal of Human Rights.
While resistance to international courts is not new, what is new,
or at least newly conceptualized, is the politics of backlash
against these institutions. Saving the International Justice
Regime: Beyond Backlash against International Courts is at the
forefront of this new conceptualization of backlash politics. It
brings together theories, concepts and methods from the fields of
international law, international relations, human rights and
political science and case studies from around the globe to pose -
and answer - three questions related to backlash against
international courts: What is backlash and what forms does it take?
Why do states and elites engage in backlash against international
human rights and criminal courts? What can stakeholders and
supporters of international justice do to meet these contemporary
challenges?
While resistance to international courts is not new, what is new,
or at least newly conceptualized, is the politics of backlash
against these institutions. Saving the International Justice
Regime: Beyond Backlash against International Courts is at the
forefront of this new conceptualization of backlash politics. It
brings together theories, concepts and methods from the fields of
international law, international relations, human rights and
political science and case studies from around the globe to pose -
and answer - three questions related to backlash against
international courts: What is backlash and what forms does it take?
Why do states and elites engage in backlash against international
human rights and criminal courts? What can stakeholders and
supporters of international justice do to meet these contemporary
challenges?
International politics has become increasingly legalized over the
past fifty years, restructuring the way that states interact with
each other, with international institutions, and even with their
own constituents. The area subjected to the most intense
restructuring has perhaps been human rights. The rise of the
international legalization of human rights now makes it possible
for individual constituents to take human rights claims against
their governments at international courts such as the European and
Inter-American Courts of Human Rights. This book brings together
theories of compliance from international law, human rights, and
international relations to explain the increasingly important
phenomenon of states' compliance with human rights tribunals'
rulings. The central argument of the book is that compliance with
international human rights tribunals' rulings is an inherently
domestic affair. It posits three overarching questions: First, why
do states comply with human rights tribunals' rulings? Second, how
does the compliance process unfold and what are the domestic
political considerations around compliance? Third, what effect does
compliance have on the protection of human rights? This book
answers these questions through a combination of quantitative
analyses and in-depth case studies from Argentina, Brazil,
Colombia, Italy, Portugal, Russia, and the United Kingdom.
International politics has become increasingly legalized over the
past fifty years, restructuring the way states interact with each
other, international institutions, and their own constituents. The
international legalization of human rights now makes it possible
for individuals to take human rights claims against their
governments at international courts such as the European and
Inter-American Courts of Human Rights. This book brings together
theories from international law, human rights and international
relations to explain the increasingly important phenomenon of
states' compliance with human rights tribunals' rulings. It argues
that this is an inherently domestic affair. It posits three
overarching questions: why do states comply with human rights
tribunals' rulings? How does the compliance process unfold and what
are the domestic political considerations around compliance? What
effect does compliance have on the protection of human rights? The
book answers these through a combination of quantitative analyses
and in-depth case studies from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Italy,
Portugal, Russia and the United Kingdom.
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