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Leading experts examine the threats posed by populism to human rights and the international systems and explore how to confront them.
List of contents
1. Populist Threats to the International Human Rights System Gerald L. Neuman; 2. U.S. Human Rights Policy and the Trump Administration Stephen Pomper and Daniel Levine-Spound; 3. Rule-of-Law Rights and Populist Impatience Jeremy Waldron; 4. Populism and Human Rights in Poland Wojciech Sadurski; 5. Representation, Paternalism, and Exclusion: The Divergent Impacts of the AKP's Populism on Human Rights in Turkey Jamie O'Connell; 6. The Legal Architecture of Populism: Exploring Antagonists in Venezuela and Colombia Helena Alviar García; 7. Penal Populism in Emerging Markets: Human Rights and Democracy in the Age of Strongmen Richard Javad Heydarian; 8. The Populist Threat to Democracy in Myanmar Yee Htun; 9. In Defense of Democratic Populism Douglas A. Johnson; 10. Populism and International Human Rights Law Institutions: A Survival Guide Laurence R. Helfer; 11. Human Rights Responses to the Populist Challenge Gerald L. Neuman; Index.
About the author
Gerald L. Neuman is the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law and the Co-Director of the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School. He teaches human rights, US constitutional law, and immigration and nationality law. From 2011 to 2014, he was a member of the UN Human Rights Committee, the treaty body that monitors compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Among others, he is the author of Strangers to the Constitution: Immigrants, Borders and Fundamental Law (1996) and co-editor of Human Rights, Democracy, and Legitimacy in a World of Disorder (2018).
Summary
Leading experts explore the threats to human rights and the international system from the spread of populism, and how to confront them. Their analyses and recommendations will interest human rights lawyers, political scientists, international relations students, and general readers concerned about recent developments.
