Human rights represent a significant nexus between and among international relations, international law, and comparative politics. Since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, there has been a proliferation of international human rights treaties and an increased attention to human rights in the field of public international law. This collection of readings represents the very best scholarship in this area and shows how the theory, methods and analysisfound in mainstream international relations and political science have been brought to bear on significant questions in international human rights. SectionI provides a set of readings that summarise the realist perspective in international relations, its main rivals, and the ways in which human rights challenge the predominance of realism in international relations. Section II sets outthe vast literature on international regimes, which transcend the traditionaldivisions between and among international relations theory, international law, and new institutionalism in the international arena. Section III concentrates on the measurement of human rights. The readings here represent the debates,problems, and selected successes in this area of human rights literature. Section IV puts together readings on the ways in which international human rightsnorms become 'constructed', diffused across the globe and transcend the division between the international and national levels of politics. Section V brings together a selection of readings analysing the variation in human rights protection across the globe and that take into account different sets of international and domestic variables. INDICE: VOLUME 1 / Section 1 Human Rights and the Challenge to Realism / John J. Mearsheimer The False Promise of International Institutions / Jeffrey Legro and Andrew Moravcsik Is Anybody Still a Realist? / Chris Brown Review Article: Theories of international justice / Bruce Russett, John R. Oneal and David R. Davis The Third Leg of the Kantian Tripod for Peace: International organizations and militarized disputes, 1950-85 / Mark W. Zacher The Decaying Pillars of the Westphalian Temple: Implications for international order and governance / Vincent, R. J. Human Rights and the Theory of International Relations / David Forsythe Introduction: Human rights in international relations / Section2: Regime Theory, Compliance and Human Rights / Anne-Marie Slaughter Burley International Law and International Relations Theory: A dual agenda / Robert O.Keohane Governance in a Partially Globalized World / Harold Koh Review Essay:Why do nations obey international law? /Abram Chayes and Antonia Handler Chayes On Compliance / Jack Donnelly International Human Rights Regimes / Stephen D. Krasner Sovereignty, Regimes, and Human Rights / VOLUME 2 / Andrew Moravcsik The Origins of Human Rights Regimes: Democratic delegation in postwar eEurope / Ellen L. Lutz and Kathryn Sikkink International Human Rights Law and Practice in Latin America / Beth Simmons International Law and State Behaviour: Commitment and compliance in international monetary affairs / John Gerard Ruggie International Regimes, Transactions, and Change: Embedded liberalism in the postwar sconomic order / Section 3: Measurement and Methods / Michael Stohl, David Carleton, George Lopez and Stephen Samuels State Violations of Human Rights: Issues and problems of measurement / Russel Lawrence Barsh Measuring Human Rights: Problems of methodology and purpose / James M. McCormick and Neil J. Mitchell Human Rights Violations, Umbrella Concepts, and Empirical Analysis / Alison Brysk The Politics of Measurement: The contested count of the disappearedin argentina / Audrey Chapman 'A "Violations Approach" for Monitoring the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights' / David L. Cingranelli and David L. Richards Measuring the Level, Pattern, and Sequence of Government Respect for Physical Integrity Rights / Todd Landman Comparative Politics and Human Rights / Todd Landman Measuring Human Rights: Principle, practice, and policy / Maria Green What We Talk about When We Talk about Indicators: Current approaches to human rights measurement / David L. Cingranelli and David L. Richards Measuring government effort to respect economic and social humanrights: A peer benchmark / Patrick Ball, Jana Asher, David Sulmont and DanielManrique How Many Peruvians have died? An estimate of the total number of victims killed or disappeared in the armed internal conflict between 1980 and 2000 / Robert E. Robertson Measuring State Compliance with the Obligation to Devote the "Maximum Available Resources" to Realising Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights / VOLUME 3 / Section 4: Global Civil Society and Norms Diffusion / Martha Finnemore and Kathryn Sikkink International Norm Dynamics and Political Change / Kathryn Sikkink Transnational Politics, International Relations Theory, and Human Rights / Keane, J. Global Civil Society? / Thomas Risse Transnational Actors and World Politics / Thomas Risse and Kathryn Sikkink The Socialization of International Human Rights Norms into Domestic Practices: Introduction / Jack Donnelly The Social Construction of Human Rights / Mary Kaldor Transnational Civil Society / Section 5: Analysing Human Rights / The Basic Model / Todd Landman Review Article: The political science of human rights / Neil J. Mitchell and James M. McCormick Economic and Political Explanations of Human Rights Violations / Steven Poe and C. Neal Tate Repression of Human Rights to Personal Integrity in the 1980s: A global analysis / Reinhard Heinisch The Economic Nature of Basic Human Rights: Economic explanations of cross-national variations in governmental basic human rights performance / Democracy and Human Rights / Christian Davenport Human Rights and the Democratic Proposition / Bruece Bueno de Mesquita, Ferayl Marie Cherif, George W. Downs and Alastair Smith Thinking Inside the Box: A closer look at democracy and human rights / Sabine Zanger A Global Analysis of the Effect of Regime Changes on Life Integrity Violations, 1977-1993 / Christian Davenport and David A. Armstrong Democracy and the Violation of Human Rights: A statistical exploration from 1976 to 1996 / VOLUME 4 / Foreign Aid and Human Rights / David Cingranelli and Thomas Pasquarello Human Rights Practices and the Distribution of U.S. Foreign Aid to Latin American Countries / Steven Poe Human Rights and Economic Aid Allocation / Steven Poe and Rangsima Sirirangsi Human Rights and U.S. Economic Aid to Africa / Steven Poe and Rangsima Sirirangsi Human Rights and US Economic Aid during the Reagan Years / Daniel Hofrenning Human Rights and Foreign Aid: A comparison ofthe Reagan and Carter administrations / Sabine Zanger Good Governance and European Aid: The impact of political conditionality / Foreign Direct Investment and Human Rights / William H. Meyer Human Rights and MNCs: Theory vs. quantitative evidence / Jackie Smith, Melissa Bolyard and Anna Ippolito Human Rights and the Global Economy: A response to Meyer / William H. Meyer Confirming, Infirming, and Falsifying Theories of Human Rights: Reflections on Smith, Bolyard,and Ippolito through the lens of Lakatos / Morton E. Winston Book Review: Human Rights and International Political Economy in Third World Nations: Multinational Corporations, Foreign Aid, and Repression / International Law and Human Rights / Linda Camp Keith The United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Does it make a difference in human rights behavior? / Eric Neumayer Do International Human Rights Treaties Improve Respect for Human Rights? / Emilie Hafner-Burton and Kiyoteru Tsutsui Justice Lost! The failure ofinternational human rights law to matter where needed most
- ISBN: 978-1-84860-783-5
- Editorial: Sage Publications
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 1624
- Fecha Publicación: 01/11/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 4
- Idioma: Inglés