Routledge Studies in Human Rights
About the Book Series
The Routledge Human Rights series publishes high quality and cross-disciplinary scholarship on topics of key importance in human rights today. In a world where human rights are both celebrated and contested, this series is committed to create stronger links between disciplines and explore new methodological and theoretical approaches in human rights research. Aimed towards both scholars and human rights professionals, the series strives to provide both critical analysis and policy-oriented research in an accessible form. The series welcomes work on specific human rights issues as well as on cross-cutting themes and institutional perspectives.
Protecting Human Rights Defenders at Risk
1st Edition
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By Alice M. Nah
January 09, 2023
This book assesses the construction, operation and effects of the international protection regime for human rights defenders, which has evolved significantly over the last twenty years in response to the risks people face as they promote and protect human rights. Drawing upon the experiences of ...
Politics of International Human Rights Law Promotion in Western Europe: Order versus Justice
1st Edition
By Koldo Casla
August 29, 2022
This book offers a critical reinterpretation of Western European States’ programmatic support for International Human Rights Law (IHRL) since the 1970s. It examines the systemic or structural constraints inherent to the international legal system and argues that order trumps justice in Western ...
Actualizing Human Rights: Global Inequality, Future People, and Motivation
1st Edition
By Jos Philips
August 01, 2022
This book argues that ultimately human rights can be actualized, in two senses. By answering important challenges to them, the real-world relevance of human rights can be brought out; and people worldwide can be motivated as needed for realizing human rights. Taking a perspective from moral and ...
Truth, Silence and Violence in Emerging States: Histories of the Unspoken
1st Edition
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By Aidan Russell
December 13, 2021
Around the world in the twentieth century, political violence in emerging states gave rise to different kinds of silence within their societies. This book explores the histories of these silences, how they were made, maintained, evaded, and transformed. This book gives a comprehensive view of the ...
Extending International Human Rights Protections to Vulnerable Populations
1st Edition
By Raymond A. Smith
September 30, 2021
This book inductively develops a new typology that identifies and evaluates three principal strategies that have been, and are being, used to extend international human rights protections to new categories of vulnerable populations. The book explicates the evolution and ongoing utility of the three...
Fundamental Rights Challenges in Border Controls and Expulsion of Irregular Immigrants in the European Union: Complaint Mechanisms and Access to Justice
1st Edition
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By Sergio Carrera, Marco Stefan
September 30, 2021
This edited volume examines the extent to which the various authorities and actors currently performing border management and expulsion-related tasks are subject to accountability mechanisms capable of delivering effective remedies and justice for abuses suffered by migrants and asylum ...
COVID-19 and Human Rights
1st Edition
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By Morten Kjaerum, Martha F. Davis, Amanda Lyons
June 30, 2021
This timely collection brings together original explorations of the COVID-19 pandemic and its wide-ranging, global effects on human rights. The contributors argue that a human rights perspective is necessary to understand the pervasive consequences of the crisis, while focusing attention on those ...
Extraordinary Rendition: Addressing the Challenges of Accountability
1st Edition
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By Elspeth Guild, Didier Bigo, Mark Gibney
August 14, 2020
The US led programme of extraordinary rendition created profound challenges for the international system of human rights protection and rule of law. This book examines the efforts of authorities in Europe and the US to re-establish rule of law and respect for human rights through the investigation ...
Why Human Rights Still Matter in Contemporary Global Affairs
1st Edition
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By Mahmood Monshipouri
May 14, 2020
This book elucidates why human rights still matter in contemporary global affairs, and what can lead to better protection of international human rights in a post-liberal order. It blends theoretical, empirical, and normative perspectives, while providing much-needed analysis in light of the perils...
Sovereignty, State Failure and Human Rights: Petty Despots and Exemplary Villains
1st Edition
By Neil Englehart
December 12, 2019
This book argues that the effectiveness of the state apparatus is one of the crucial variables determining human rights conditions, and that state weakness and failure is responsible for much of the human rights abuses we see today. Weak states are unable to control their own agents or to police ...
Human Rights in Democracies
1st Edition
By Peter Haschke
October 17, 2019
Violations of the right to the physical integrity of the person, such as torture, cruel and unusual punishment, extra-judicial executions, disappearances, and political imprisonment have long been treated as an anomaly in democratically governed societies. In the current literature on human rights,...
Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy: Prevarications and Evasions
1st Edition
By Clair Apodaca
May 21, 2019
Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy provides a comprehensive historical overview and analysis of the complex and often vexing problem of understanding the formation of U.S. human rights policy. The proper place of human rights and fundamental freedoms in U.S. foreign policy has long been debated ...