Human Rights Politics | An introduction

Michael Krennerich

ISBN 10: 3031570286 / ISBN 13: 9783031570285

Published by Springer, 2025

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Human Rights Politics | An introduction | Michael Krennerich | Taschenbuch | xi | Englisch | 2025 | Springer | EAN 9783031570285 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, juergen[dot]hartmann[at]springer[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Human Rights Politics | An introduction
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3031570286
• ISBN 13: 9783031570285
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 155H x 11D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 11 millimeters depth
• Weight: 300 grams
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Synopsis

The book offers a comprehensive and clear introduction for students and those interested in human rights, written by a renowned human rights expert. It not only provides an introduction to the diversity of issues, actors and institutions in human rights policy and politics, but also offers assistance and suggestions on how the complex reality of human rights politics can be described and analysed with the help of political science and related disciplines. It deals with civil society engagement in human rights as well as state obligations and international efforts to protect human rights.

This is an open access book.

About the Author

Michael Krennerich is Professor of Political Science (main focus: human rights and human rights politics). He holds a doctorate in Political Science, Philosophy and Public Law from Heidelberg University and a post-doctoral Habilitation from the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). Prof. Krennerich was appointed Academic Director of the FAU Research Centre for Human Rights Erlangen-Nuremberg (CHREN) in July 2023. Outside of academia, he is also the chairperson of the NGO “Nuremberg Human Rights Centre” and one of the coordinators of the German NGO-network on human rights “Forum Menschenrechte”. Prof. Krennerich is co-founder and chief-editor of the academic journal “Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte - Journal for Human Rights”, funded in 2007. He has published several monographs and anthologies on human rights as well as a large number of book chapters and journal articles on the topic.