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    Research Handbook on the Politics of Human Rights Law by Andreassen, Bård A.;

    Series: Research Handbooks in Law and Politics series;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing
    • Date of Publication 28 April 2023

    • ISBN 9781789908824
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages510 pages
    • Size 244x169 mm
    • Weight 1024 g
    • Language English
    • 457

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    Long description:

    International human rights law is undoubtedly intertwined with politics. This Research Handbook explores and provokes reflection on how politics impacts human rights legislation and, conversely, how human rights law shapes politics and the functioning of the state.



    Bringing together leading international scholars in human rights law and politics, the Research Handbook provides theoretical reflections and empirical analyses across the areas of governance and policies and examines the implementation mechanisms of human rights law in national and international jurisdictions. Chapters discuss issues such as the mobilization of human rights in developing countries, the politics of torture and resource allocation, and the influence of politics on international institutions. It also presents a critical analysis of the human rights regimes in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East, and how the state works in ways which respect the ethics and values of human rights law.



    Providing a comprehensive overview of the reciprocal relationship between politics and human rights legislation, this Research Handbook will be essential reading for students and academics in human rights, international politics, law and politics, and public policy.



    International human rights law is undoubtedly intertwined with politics, and so this Research Handbook explores and provokes reflection on how politics impacts human rights legislation and, conversely, how human rights law shapes politics and the functioning of the state. Bringing together leading international scholars in human rights law and politics, the Research Handbook provides theoretical reflections and empirical analyses across the areas of governance and policies and examines the implementation mechanisms of human rights law in national and international jurisdictions.

    ‘Shall politics follow the law, or shall the law follow politics? This Research Handbook, edited and written by some of the world’s leading scholars of law, political science and other disciplines, provides an excellent analysis of the interdependence of law and politics in the field of human rights. International human rights treaties are drafted and adopted by diplomats and politicians and are implemented in a highly politicized process. Nevertheless, international human rights law develops an independent meaning that strongly impacts politics.’

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    Table of Contents:

    Contents:

    Introductory essay: the politics of international human rights law 1
    Bård A. Andreassen

    PART I GOVERNANCE AND INSTITUTIONS
    1 The closing and resilience of civic space from a human rights perspective: scope, causes, responses 29
    Antoine Buyse
    2 Governance and human rights: African challenges 47
    Göran Hydén
    3 Writing political histories of international human rights law 61
    Steven L. B. Jensen
    4 Power and civic action: mobilisation for human rights in developing societies 79
    Gordon Crawford
    5 Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association – practices and obstacles 99
    Maina Kiai and Waruguru Kaguongo
    6 The role of national human rights systems in the implementation of
    international human rights law 115
    Domenico Zipoli
    7 The relevance of governance and multi-level governance to the study of
    human rights: insights from business and human rights 145
    Claire Methven O’Brien
    8 The politics of torture: legal, social and political dynamics 166
    Nora Sveaass
    9 Rooting rights in local spaces? Transformations in gender relations and
    citizen engagement 194
    Celestine Nyamu Musembi

    PART II DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE AND PUBLIC POLICIES
    10 The SDG agenda and human rights 215
    Markus Kaltenborn and Wouter Vandenhole
    11 Poverty and civil and political rights 236
    Philip Alston
    12 Politics of resources allocation: tax, expenditure and inequality in the
    human rights supervisory bodies 255
    Hans-Otto Sano and Carlos Villalobos

    PART III INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
    13 Globalization and human rights 280
    Siddiqur R. Osmani
    14 The influence of politics on the work of the UN human rights treaty bodies 310
    Gentian Zyberi and Ibrahim Salama
    15 International human rights law, politics and international financial
    institutions: the case of the World Bank 338
    Siobhán McInerney-Lankford
    16 The African human rights system: a critical appraisal 364
    Victor Oluwasina Ayeni
    17 The quest for an (effective) Southeast Asian human right system 389
    Sriprapha Petcharamesree
    18 The EU human rights regime: development, actors, policy framework
    and effectiveness 409
    Gabriel N. Toggenburg
    19 Citizenship and international human rights law – enduring enigma of
    the Middle East 440
    Nils A. Butenschøn
    20 The politics of international human rights and development aid 458
    Arne Tostensen

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