Europe and the Americas: Transatlantic Approaches to Human Rights

In Europe and the Americas: Transatlantic Approaches to Human Rights, leading scholars of different disciplines offer new insight into transatlantic approaches to human rights. At a time when global challenges (economic crises, poverty, terrorism, mass migration and climate change) have a profound impact on the universal development of human rights and democracy, a common transatlantic understanding of human rights may prove instrumental in meeting these challenges.

Through conceptual discussions, by analysing different human rights topics in different periods and regions (Europe, the United States and Latin America), and by focusing on a diverse range of actors, from policy makers and judicial institutions to academics and civil society, the authors identify key developments of human rights within a transatlantic framework.

Erik André Andersen is a senior researcher at the Danish Institute for Human Rights. He is an expert in Eastern and Central Europe, Russia and the former Soviet Union. He holds a PhD in political science on Eastern Europe from the University of Copenhagen. Among other things, he is currently working on the history of international criminal courts, the economy and human rights as well as human rights indicators. During 2006-2014, he was a member of the Board of the Danish Institute for Human Rights.

Eva Maria Lassen is senior researcher at the Danish Institute for Human Rights, she holds a PhD in History and is an expert in religious freedom, the history of human rights, and human rights and religious traditions. In 2007-2012, she was the Research Director at the Danish Institute for Human Rights and she is currently a member of the Board of Administrators of the European Inter-University Centre of Human Rights and Democratization (EIUC), national director of the European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratization (E.MA) and vice-chair of Humanity in Action, Denmark. She is currently participating in the research project “FRAME: Fostering Human Rights among European Policies”, funded under the EU’s Seventh Framework Program.