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Persistent Power of Human Rights From Commitment to Compliance

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ISBN-10: 1107609364

ISBN-13: 9781107609365

Edition: 2013

Authors: Thomas Risse, Stephen C. Ropp, Kathryn Sikkink

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The Power of Human Rights (published in 1999) was an innovative and influential contribution to the study of international human rights. At its centre was a 'spiral model' of human rights change which described the various socialisation processes through which international norms were internalised into the domestic practices of various authoritarian states during the Cold War years. The Persistent Power of Human Rights builds on these insights, extending its reach and analysis. It updates our understanding of the various casual mechanisms and conditions which produce behavioural compliance, and expands the range of rights-violating actors examined to include democratic and authoritarian…    
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List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/7/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 372
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English

AMICHAI MAGEN is W. Glenn Campbell National Fellow at the Hoover Institution and anbsp;Lecturer in Law atnbsp;Stanford Law School. He is also annbsp;Affiliated Scholar at the Center on Democracy, Development, and Rule of Law (CDDRL) atnbsp;Stanford University. THOMAS RISSE is Professor of International Politics at the Freie Universität Berlin and Coordinator of the Research Center “Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood” at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. MICHAEL MCFAUL is the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and Rule of Law (CDDRL), all at Stanford…    

Introduction and Stock-Taking:
Introduction and overview
The power of human rights a decade after: from euphoria to contestation?
From ratification to compliance: quantitative evidence on the spiral model
Conceptual and Methodological Issues:
Human rights in areas of limited statehood: the new agenda
The 'compliance gap' and the efficacy of international human rights institutions
Social mechanisms to promote international human rights: complementary or contradictory?
From Ratification to Compliance: States Revisited:
The normative context of human rights criticism: treaty ratification and UN mechanisms
The US and torture: does the spiral model work?
Resisting the power of human rights: the people's Republic of China
The 'Arab spring' and the spiral model: Tunisia and Morocco
From Commitment to Compliance: Companies, Rebel, Individuals:
Encouraging greater compliance: local networks and the United Nations global compact
Business and human rights: how corporate norm violators become norm entrepreneurs
Taming of the warlords: commitment and compliance by armed opposition groups in civil wars
Changing hearts and minds: sexual politics and human rights
Conclusions