Europe and the Americas : Transatlantic Approaches to Human Rights.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andersen, Erik André.

Contributor:

Lassen, Eva Maria, 1959-

ProQuest ebrary.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe--Civilization.

Europe--Colonies--America.

Europe--History.

State, The--History.

Human rights--Europe.

Human rights.

Europe.

Human rights--Latin America.

Latin America.

Human rights--United States.

United States.

Local Subjects:

Europe--Civilization.

Europe--Colonies--America.

Europe--History.

State, The--History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (431 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden : BRILL, 2015.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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 theGlobal 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 - Diffferent 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 andObligations?; Human Rights Borders Under Pressure; 11: Torture: Europe and the Americas; 12: The Loaded Gun: The Obama Administration and the Legacy ofGeorge W. Bush's "War on Terror"; 13: The Extraterritorial Use of Armed Drones and International HumanRights Law: Diffferent Views on Legality in the US and Europe?; 14: Losing the Right to Have Rights: EU Externalization of BorderControl; Index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Andersen, Erik André Europe and the Americas : Transatlantic Approaches to Human Rights

ISBN:

9789004279247

9004279245

OCLC:

908514398

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