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Online-Ressource (431 S.)
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9789004279230
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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
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Description based upon print version of record
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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
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4: The Jamaican Broker: UN Diplomacy and the Transformantion of International Human Rights, 1962-19685: The Past Discontinued: American andEuropean 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
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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
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004279247
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004279230
Additional Edition:
Print version Europe and the Americas Transatlantic Approaches to Human Rights
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English
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