Human Rights in Times of Transition

Liberal Democracies and Challenges of National Security

Kasey McCall-Smith, Andrea Birdsall, Elisenda Casanas Adam (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2020
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78990-988-3 (ISBN)

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This timely book explores the extent to which national security has affected the intersection between human rights and the exercise of state power. It examines how liberal democracies, long viewed as the proponents and protectors of human rights, have transformed their use of human rights on the global stage, externalizing their own internal agendas.Contextualizing human rights goals, structures and challenges in the immediate post-UDHR era, key chapters analyse the role that national security has played in driving competition between individual rights and rhetoric-laden, democracy-reinforcing approaches to collective rights of security. Internationally diverse authors offer evocative insights into the ways in which law is used to manipulate both intra and interstate relationships, and demonstrate the constant tensions raised by a human rights system that is fundamentally state-centric though defined by individuals' needs and demands. Acknowledging the challenges in contemporary human rights practice, policy and discourse as features of transitional eras in human rights, this forward-thinking book identifies opportunities to correct past inadequacies and promote a stronger system for the future.

This is a hard-hitting and much needed study for students and scholars of human rights, security law, constitutional law and international relations more widely. Its practical dimensions will also greatly benefit practitioners in the field.

Edited by Kasey McCall-Smith, School of Law, Andrea Birdsall, School of Social and Political Science and Elisenda Casanas Adam, School of Law, University of Edinburgh, UK

Contents:

1 Human rights, liberal democracies and challenges of
national security 1
Kasey McCall-Smith, Andrea Birdsall and
Elisenda Casanas Adam

PART I HUMAN RIGHTS TRANSITIONS –
THEORETICAL DEBATES AND DOCTRINAL
CHALLENGES
2 Key challenges to human rights in democracies at a time of
transition: Where to now? 16
Francesca Klug
3 The forgotten principle of fraternité : Re-interpreting the
last three articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 41
Yota Negishi
4 Human rights protection and state capacity: The doctrinal
implications of the statist character of international human
rights law 64
Mátyás Bódig

PART II CO-OPTION AND EJECTION OF HUMAN
RIGHTS IN LIBERAL DEMOCRACIES
5 US counterterrorism and the denial of fundamental rights
from torture to fair trial 90
Kasey McCall-Smith
6 Counterterrorism and challenges to human rights:
Justifying drones and targeted killing as acts of self-defence 116
Andrea Birdsall
7 The alleged backlash against human rights: Evidence from
Denmark and the UK 139
Jacques Hartmann and Samuel White

PART III HUMAN RIGHTS AND NATIONAL
SECURITY CHALLENGES BEYOND THE STATE
8 Surveillance measures and the exception of national
security in the case law of the European Court of
Human Rights 165
Pierre Notermans
9 Constructing a right to counterterrorism: Law, politics and
the Security Council 189
Vivek Bhatt
10 Non-state actors that aspire to be states: White spots on the
international human rights protection map? 216
Linda Hamid
11 Reflections on human rights and contemporary challenges
raised by national security discourse 242
Kasey McCall-Smith, Andrea Birdsall and
Elisenda Casanas Adam

Index 255

Erscheinungsdatum	26.11.2020
Reihe/Serie	The Association of Human Rights Institutes series
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-78990-988-0 / 1789909880
ISBN-13	978-1-78990-988-3 / 9781789909883
Zustand	Neuware