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Zusatztext Europe's integration and its broader postwar reconstruction, some scholars now claim, were conservative projects, geared toward bolstering traditional social, cultural, and economic hierarchies ... The most ambitious and powerful study in this new wave of scholarship is Marco Duranti's The Conservative Human Rights Revolution. Duranti's sweeping political and institutional history reconstructs a transnational movement of conservative politicians and thinkers, who established the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in the aftermath of the Second World War. Informationen zum Autor Marco Duranti is Lecturer in Modern European and International History at the University of Sydney, where he directs the Nation Empire Globe Research Cluster. He has been a Fulbright Scholar at the European University Institute, a Fox Fellow at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Max Planck Research Group on History and Memory at the University of Konstanz. Klappentext The Conservative Human Rights Revolution reconsiders the origins of the European human rights system, arguing that its conservative inventors, foremost among them Winston Churchill, conceived of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) as a means of realizing a controversial political agenda and advancing a Christian vision of European identity. Zusammenfassung The Conservative Human Rights Revolution reconsiders the origins of the European human rights system, arguing that its conservative inventors, foremost among them Winston Churchill, conceived of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) as a means of realizing a controversial political agenda and advancing a Christian vision of European identity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction PART ONE: Reflections on the Conservative Human Rights Revolution in Postwar Europe (1946-50) Chapter 1: The Ethical Foundations of European Integration Chapter 2: Human Rights and Conservative Politics Chapter 3: Revolutions and Restorations PART TWO: Human Rights, Memory, and the Romantic Origins of International Justice (1899-1950) Chapter 4: The Romance of International Law Chapter 5: Internationalism Between Nostalgia and Technocracy Chapter 6: Churchill, Human Rights, and the European Project Chapter 7: Postwar Reconciliation and Cold War Human Rights PART THREE: Free-Market Conservatism, Christian Democracy, and the European Convention on Human Rights (1944-59) Chapter 8: Neoliberal Human Rights in Postwar Britain Chapter 9: Neomedieval Human Rights in the Shadow of Vichy Chapter 10: Catholic Human Rights in Postwar France Chapter 11: Rethinking the ECHR's Original Intent Conclusion Epilogue: A European Union Without Qualities Notes Bibliography Index ...
