Conflict and compliance : state responses to international human rights pressure / Sonia Cardenas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cardenas, Sonia.

Series:

Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

Human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

International human rights pressure has been applied to numerous states with varying results. In Conflict and Compliance, Sonia Cardenas examines responses to such pressure and challenges conventional views of the reasons states do-or do not-comply with international law. Data from disparate bodies of research suggest that more pressure to comply with human rights standards is not necessarily more effective and that international policies are more efficient when they target the root causes of state oppression.Cardenas surveys a broad array of evidence to support these conclusions, including Latin American cases that incorporate recent important declassified materials, a statistical analysis of all the countries in the world, and a set of secondary cases from Eastern Europe, South Africa, China, and Cuba. The views of human rights skeptics and optimists are surveyed to illustrate how state rhetoric and behavior can be interpreted differently depending on one's perspective.Theoretically and methodologically sophisticated, Conflict and Compliance paints a new picture of the complex dynamics at work when states face competing pressures to comply with and violate international human rights norms.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Introduction: Compliance Revisited

Chapter 2. Human Rights Pressure and State Violations

Chapter 3. Skeptics Under Fire: Human Rights Change in the Southern Cone

Chapter 4. Bounded Optimism: The Limits of Human Rights Influence

Chapter 5. State Responses in Global Perspective

Chapter 6. Compliance and Resistance in International Politics

Appendix: Measuring Human Rights Determinants

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-176) and index.

ISBN:

9781283889926

1283889927

9780812201536

0812201531

OCLC:

794702129