Human Rights (SAGE Library of International Relations) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1848607830 ISBN 13: 9781848607835

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

Human rights represent a significant nexus between and among international relations, international law, and comparative politics. Since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, there has been a proliferation of international human rights treaties and an increased attention to human rights in the field of public international law. This collection of readings represents the very best scholarship in this area and shows how the theory, methods, and analysis found in mainstream international relations and political science have been brought to bear on significant questions in international human rights.

Section I provides a set of readings that summarize the realist perspective in international relations, its main rivals, and the ways in which human rights challenge the predominance of realism in international relations.
Section II sets out the vast literature on international regimes, which transcend the traditional divisions between and among international relations theory, international law, and new institutionalism in the international arena.
Section III concentrates on the measurement of human rights. The readings here represent the debates, problems, and selected successes in this area of human rights literature.
Section IV puts together readings on the ways in which international human rights norms become ′constructed′, diffused across the globe and transcend the division between the international and national levels of politics.
Section V brings together a selection of readings analyzing the variation in human rights protection across the globe and that take into account different sets of international and domestic variables.

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About the Author

Todd Landman is a Reader in the Department of Government and Director of the Centre for Democratic Governance at the University of Essex. His research interests include human rights; international relations; and quantitative and qualitative political methodology. He is author of Studying Human Rights (Routledge 2006), Protecting Human Rights (Georgetown 2005), and Issues and Methods in Comparative Politics (Routledge 2000, 2003, 2008); co-author of Measuring Human Rights (Routledge 2009), Governing Latin America (Polity 2003), and Citizenship Rights and Social Movements (Oxford 1997, 2000); and co-editor of the Sage Handbook of Comparative Politics (2009). He has also authored numerous articles, reports, review essays, book notes, and other publications, reviews manuscripts for numerous peer-reviewed journals, and serves on the editorial board of Human Rights and Human Welfare and The Journal of Latin American Studies.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848607830
• ISBN 13: 9781848607835
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1648
• Editor: Landman Todd