Human Rights

Human Rights Futures

Edited by Stephen Hopgood · Jack Snyder · Leslie Vinjamuri
Cambridge University Press August 2017

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ISBN-13
9781107193352
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
August 2017
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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For the first time in one collected volume, mainstream and critical human rights scholars together examine the empirical and normative debates around the future of human rights. They ask what makes human rights effective, what strategies will enhance the chances of compliance, what blocks progress, and whether the hope for human rights is entirely misplaced in a rapidly transforming world.

Human Rights Futures sees the world as at a crucial juncture. The project for globalizing rights will either continue to be embedded or will fall backward into a maelstrom of nationalist backlash, religious resurgence and faltering Western power. Each chapter talks directly to the others in an interactive dialogue, providing a theoretical and methodological framework for a clear research agenda for the next decade.

Scholars, graduate students and practitioners of political science, history, sociology, law and development will find much to both challenge and provoke them in this innovative book.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: human rights: past, present and future Stephen Hopgood, Jack Snyder and Leslie Vinjamuri
2. Human rights data, processes, and outcomes: how recent research points to a better future Geoffrey Dancy and Kathryn Sikkink
3. Human rights and human welfare: looking for a 'dark side' to international human rights law Beth A. Simmons and Anton Strezhnev
4. Empowering rights through mass movements, religion, and reform parties Jack Snyder
5. Human rights backlash Leslie Vinjamuri
6. Human rights in areas of limited statehood: from the spiral model to localization and translation Thomas Risse
7. Grounding the backlash: regional security treaties, counternorms and human rights in Eurasia Alexander Cooley and Matthew Schaaf
8. Governing religion as right Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
9. The vernacularization of women's human rights Sally Engle Merry and Peggy Levitt
10. Re-framing human rights advocacy: the rise of economic rights Shareen Hertel
11. Human rights and the crisis of liberalism Samuel Moyn
12. Human rights on the road to nowhere Stephen Hopgood
13. Conclusion: human rights futures Stephen Hopgood, Jack Snyder and Leslie Vinjamuri.
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