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Europe and the Americas : Transatlantic Approaches to Human Rights.

In Europe and the Americas: Transatlantic Approaches to Human Rights, leading scholars offers new insight into topical human rights in Europe and the Americas, providing a basis for debating human rights values across the Atlantic.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Andersen, Erik André
Otros Autores: Lassen, Eva Maria
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : BRILL, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Europe and the Americas: Transatlantic Approaches to Human Rights; Copyright; Table of Contents; About the Authors and Editors; Introduction; PART I. NEGOTIATING CONCEPTS AND DEFINITIONS; The Beginning of the International Human Rights Era; 1: When Peers are Pressing for Progress: The Clash between Hersch Lauterpacht and John Humphrey over the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; 2: Race, Social Struggles and "Human" Rights: Contributions from the Global South; 3: The Latin-American influence on European Human Rights Law.
  • 4: The Jamaican Broker: UN Diplomacy and the Transformantion of International Human Rights, 1962-19685: The Past Discontinued: American and European Views on International Criminal Tribunals,1918-1945 130; Discourses Discussed; 6: From "Rights Talk" to "Human Rights Talk": Transatlantic Dialogueson Human Rights; 7: Law as Identity
  • Different Identities and Diffferent Human RightsConceptions in Europe and the United States; PART II. ERRATIC FRONTIERS OF HUMAN RIGHTS; Countries in Transition; 8: Regime Change in a Transitional Society: The Case of Ukraine.
  • 9: Human Rights in and around Cuba: Monolithic Discourse or ActualAlternatives?10: The Latin American Spring: New Constitutions, Rights and Obligations?; Human Rights Borders Under Pressure; 11: Torture: Europe and the Americas; 12: The Loaded Gun: The Obama Administration and the Legacy of George W. Bush's "War on Terror"; 13: The Extraterritorial Use of Armed Drones and International HumanRights Law: Different Views on Legality in the US and Europe?; 14: Losing the Right to Have Rights: EU Externalization of BorderControl; Index.