What Do We Know about Human Rights?
Dr Jillienne Haglund editor Dr Courtney Hillebrecht editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publishing:7th Jan '27
£36.99
This title is due to be published on 7th January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Analyzes the history and growth of the International Human Rights movement using a social science framework. This book focuses on protections and abuses of human rights, international human rights laws, and aspects of society that impact human rights, such as economics, public health, and the environment.
The emergence of the international human rights regime following WWII and the unprecedented growth of the international human rights architecture in the decades to follow has produced standards that serve as the basis on which we can assess the protection of human rights across the globe. Despite the remarkable growth in international institutions designed to protect human rights, human rights datasets continue to display trends of persistent human rights abuses. What Do We Know About Human Rights interrogates those trends, assessing how and why human rights are repressed, and how they are preserved. This collection of essays authored by leaders in the field offers definitions and insights into the vast study of human rights, looking at human rights protections, mechanisms for intervention and mediation, and new challenges in human rights research. In the face of growing challenges to the liberal international order, this volume strengthens our understanding of the relationship between democracy and human rights.
“What Do We Know about Human Rights? is the book I wish I had when I started graduate school! In a very accessible way, the volume provides budding (or seasoned) readers with the current state of academic research in so many areas related to human rights. Each chapter gives readers the must-knows about existing research and provides them with a blueprint for adding to this important conversation. I highly recommend it for all undergraduate and graduate classrooms.“ -- Amanda Murdie, Dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
"What Do We Know about Human Rights? takes stock of a field that has grown enormously in scope and sophistication over the past three decades. Haglund and Hillebrecht have assembled a genuinely comprehensive map of the empirical human rights literature, from the drivers of repression to the mechanisms of protection and repair, that will be indispensable for graduate seminars and a welcome refresher for established scholars alike." -- Courtenay R. Monroe, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Merced, USA
"What Do We Know about Human Rights will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students of human rights. The contributors to the volume review and assess the central clusters of research on human rights, evaluate the theoretical and empirical tools for studying international human rights, and look ahead to emerging challenges. Scholars will find in the book ideas and directions for further advances and students will appreciate it as a comprehensive assessment, both broad and deep, of the field.” -- Wayne Sandholtz, Professor Emeritus of International Relations and Law, University of Southern California, USA
ISBN: 9798216277040
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360 pages