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Reclaiming Human Rights in a Changing World Order
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2022
Summary
Human rights — and the international institutions that strive to protect them — are under increasing attack from powerful actors on the global stage, from recent political trends even within established democracies and from new technologies. Together, these threats have undermined what had been a fragile international consensus as recently as two decades ago about the importance of concerted international action to protect human rights and punish those who abuse them.
China, Russia, and other nondemocratic regimes have become increasingly bold in acting as if agreed-upon international human rights standards no longer exist, or at least do not apply to them. More broadly, domestic political movements based on nationalism, religion, and populism are challenging human rights norms on nearly every continent. And new technologies — including autonomous weapons systems and relentless digital surveillance — have given national leaders new ways to control or even abuse their citizens with impunity.
This book examines these new challenges to international and regional human rights in Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. It is the result of a year of workshops with human rights activists and young leaders from around the world, with chapters written by a diverse group of leading scholars. Beyond describing the challenges to human rights, the book offers targeted, practical recommendations for national and multilateral policymakers, activists, and scholars for concrete actions to protect human rights as well as improve public understanding of why doing so is essential.
Reclaiming Human Rights in a Changing World Order will interest scholars of international relations and human rights law, domestic and international activists involved in human rights — indeed, anyone wanting to understand the implications for the liberal international order of the new geopolitical competition, modern technology, and political and social movements.
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Copyright year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-0-8157-4006-3
ISBN-Online
978-0-8157-3976-0
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
387
Product type
Edited Book
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Foreword No access
Acknowledgments No access
Acronyms and Abbreviations No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 8
One. Human Rights: From Evolution to Devolution? No access
Two. Positioning Human Rights in China-U.S. Relations No access
Three. Crossing the “Redline”: Engaging Russia in the Multilateral Order No access
Four. Same Blueprint, New Norms: Regional Organizations, Illiberalism, and the Rise of Contested Global Governance No access
Five. Human Rights, Pandemics, and the Infrastructure of Human Rights Institutions No access
Six. Protecting Human Rights from Exclusionary Populism No access
Seven. Evangelicals and Human Rights No access
Eight. Technical Standards and Human Rights: The Case of New IP No access
Nine. Autonomous Weapon Systems: Accountability Gaps and Racial Oppression No access
Ten. Populism and the Protection of Human Rights in Europe: The Challenge from Within No access
Eleven. Polishing the Crown Jewel of the Western Hemisphere: The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights No access
Twelve. Caught between Geopolitics, Democratic Regression, and the “Sovereign Backlash”: The African Human Rights System No access
Thirteen. Human Rights and Geopolitics in the Middle East, North Africa, and Afghanistan No access
Conclusions: Reforming, Rebuilding, Modernizing the International Human Rights System No access Pages 333 - 352
