Human Rights in Times of Transition: Liberal Democracies and Challenges of National Security - Couverture rigide

 
9781789909883: Human Rights in Times of Transition: Liberal Democracies and Challenges of National Security
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1789909880 ISBN 13 : 9781789909883
Editeur : Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2020

Synopsis

This timely book explores the extent to which national security has affected the intersection between human rights and the exercise of state power. It examines how liberal democracies, long viewed as the proponents and protectors of human rights, have transformed their use of human rights on the global stage, externalizing their own internal agendas.

Contextualizing human rights goals, structures and challenges in the immediate post-UDHR era, key chapters analyse the role that national security has played in driving competition between individual rights and rhetoric-laden, democracy-reinforcing approaches to collective rights of security. Internationally diverse authors offer evocative insights into the ways in which law is used to manipulate both intra and interstate relationships, and demonstrate the constant tensions raised by a human rights system that is fundamentally state-centric though defined by individuals' needs and demands. Acknowledging the challenges in contemporary human rights practice, policy and discourse as features of transitional eras in human rights, this forward-thinking book identifies opportunities to correct past inadequacies and promote a stronger system for the future.

This is a hard-hitting and much needed study for students and scholars of human rights, security law, constitutional law and international relations more widely. Its practical dimensions will also greatly benefit practitioners in the field.

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À propos de l?auteur

Edited by Kasey McCall-Smith, Professor of International Law and Human Rights, School of Law, Andrea Birdsall, School of Social and Political Science and Elisenda Casanas Adam, School of Law, University of Edinburgh, UK

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Éditeur
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1789909880
ISBN 13 
9781789909883
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
288
Éditeur
McCall-Smith Kasey, Birdsall Andrea, Casanas Adam Elisenda
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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