Sonia Cardenas

Chains of Justice

The Global Rise of State Institutions for Human Rights

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Produktbeschreibung

Sonia Cardenas is Associate Academic Dean and Professor of Political Science at Trinity College and author of Human Rights in Latin America: A Politics of Terror and Hope and Conflict and Compliance: State Responses to International Human Rights Pressure, both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 936g
• ISBN-13: 9780812245394
• ISBN-10: 0812245393
• Artikelnr.: 40307928

Autorenporträt

Sonia Cardenas is Associate Academic Dean and Professor of Political Science at Trinity College and author of Human Rights in Latin America: A Politics of Terror and Hope and Conflict and Compliance: State Responses to International Human Rights Pressure, both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. The Self-Restraining State?
Chapter 2. Historical Linkages
Chapter 3. Tracking Global Diffusion
Chapter 4. The Logic of Strategic Emulation
Chapter 5. Trendsetters and Early Adopters, pre-1990
Chapter 6. Democratization Scripts and Bandwagoning in Africa
Chapter 7. Transitional Myths and Everyday Politics in the Americas
Chapter 8. Appeasement via Localization in the Asia Pacific
Chapter 9. Membership Rites and Statehood in the New Europe
Chapter 10. How Accountability Institutions Matter
Chapter 11. Adaptive States: Making and Breaking International Law
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments