Domestic Politics and International Human Rights Tribunals - The Problem of Compliance

Informationen zum Autor Dr Courtney Hillebrecht is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Her research focuses on human rights, international relations and international law. Hillebrecht's work has been published in Human Rights Quarterly, Human Rights Review, The Journal of Human Rights Practice and Foreign Policy Analysis. She is the editor of a forthcoming volume on states' responses to human security crises and is beginning work on a new project on the effect of international criminal accountability for ongoing violence. Klappentext This book explains the phenomenon of states' compliance with human rights tribunals' rulings using theories from international law, human rights, and international relations. Zusammenfassung This book explains the phenomenon of states' compliance with human rights tribunals' rulings using theories from international law! human rights! and international relations. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Human rights tribunals and the challenge of compliance; 2. Explaining compliance with human rights tribunals; 3. Domestic institutions and patterns of compliance; 4. Compliance as a signal of states' human rights commitments: Uribe's Colombia; 5. Leveraging international law's legitimacy to change policies: compliance and domestic policy promotion in Argentina and Portugal; 6. The bitter pill of compliance: preferences for human rights, democracy, and the rule of law; 7. Compliance failures: Russia, Italy and Brazil and the politics of non-compliance; 8. Conclusion: the European and inter-American courts in context.

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• Authors: Courtney Hillebrecht, Courtney (University of Nebraska Hillebrecht, Hillebrecht Courtney
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.02.2014
• EAN: 9781107040229
• ISBN: 978-1-107-04022-9
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law; Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Law, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, International Relations, comparative law, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law