The Conservative Human Rights Revolution reconsiders the origins of the European human rights system, arguing that its conservative inventors, foremost among them Winston Churchill, conceived of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) as a means of realizing a controversial political agenda and advancing a Christian vision of European identity.
The Conservative Human Rights Revolution reconsiders the origins of the European human rights system, arguing that its conservative inventors, foremost among them Winston Churchill, conceived of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) as a means of realizing a controversial political agenda and advancing a Christian vision of European identity.
Marco Duranti is Senior Lecturer in Modern European and International History at the University of Sydney. He has been a Fulbright Scholar at the European University Institute, a Fox Fellow at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Max Planck Research Group on History and Memory at the University of Konstanz.
Inhaltsangabe
* Acknowledgments * Introduction * PART ONE: European Memory, Human Rights Law, and the Romantic Origins of International Justice (1899-1950) * Chapter 1: The Romance of International Law * Chapter 2: Internationalism Between Nostalgia and Technocracy * Chapter 3: Churchill, Human Rights, and the European Project * Chapter 4: Postwar Reconciliation, Colonialism, and Cold War Human Rights * PART TWO: Free-Market Conservatism, Christian Democracy, and the European Convention on Human Rights (1944-1959) * Chapter 5: Neoliberal Human Rights in Postwar Britain * Chapter 6: Neomedieval Human Rights in the Shadow of Vichy * Chapter 7: Catholic Human Rights in Postwar France * Chapter 8: Rethinking the ECHR's Original Intent * PART THREE: Reflections on the Conservative Human Rights Revolution in Postwar Europe (1946-1950) * Chapter 9: The Ethical Foundations of European Integration * Chapter 10: Human Rights and Conservative Politics * Chapter 11: Revolution and Restoration in the History of Human Rights * Conclusion * Epilogue: A European Union Without Qualities * Notes * Archival Collections * Index
* Acknowledgments * Introduction * PART ONE: European Memory, Human Rights Law, and the Romantic Origins of International Justice (1899-1950) * Chapter 1: The Romance of International Law * Chapter 2: Internationalism Between Nostalgia and Technocracy * Chapter 3: Churchill, Human Rights, and the European Project * Chapter 4: Postwar Reconciliation, Colonialism, and Cold War Human Rights * PART TWO: Free-Market Conservatism, Christian Democracy, and the European Convention on Human Rights (1944-1959) * Chapter 5: Neoliberal Human Rights in Postwar Britain * Chapter 6: Neomedieval Human Rights in the Shadow of Vichy * Chapter 7: Catholic Human Rights in Postwar France * Chapter 8: Rethinking the ECHR's Original Intent * PART THREE: Reflections on the Conservative Human Rights Revolution in Postwar Europe (1946-1950) * Chapter 9: The Ethical Foundations of European Integration * Chapter 10: Human Rights and Conservative Politics * Chapter 11: Revolution and Restoration in the History of Human Rights * Conclusion * Epilogue: A European Union Without Qualities * Notes * Archival Collections * Index
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