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
Edited
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 ...
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 ...
COVID-19 and Human Rights
1st Edition
Edited
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 ...
Why Human Rights Still Matter in Contemporary Global Affairs
1st Edition
Edited
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...
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 ...
Human Rights and the Dark Side of Globalisation: Transnational law enforcement and migration control
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Jens Vedsted-Hansen
December 13, 2016
This edited volume examines the continued viability of international human rights law in the context of growing transnational law enforcement. With states increasingly making use of global governance modes, core exercises of public authority such as migration control, surveillance, detention and ...