Evidence for Hope (eBook)

Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century

Kathryn Sikkink (Autor)

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2017
336 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8853-5 (ISBN)

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A history of the successes of the human rights movement and a case for why human rights workEvidence for Hope makes the case that, yes, human rights work. Critics may counter that the movement is in serious jeopardy or even a questionable byproduct of Western imperialism. They point out that Guantanamo is still open, the Arab Spring protests have been crushed, and governments are cracking down on NGOs everywhere. But respected human rights expert Kathryn Sikkink draws on decades of research and fieldwork to provide a rigorous rebuttal to pessimistic doubts about human rights laws and institutions. She demonstrates that change comes slowly and as the result of struggle, but in the long term, human rights movements have been vastly effective.Attacks on the human rights movement's credibility are based on the faulty premise that human rights ideas emerged in North America and Europe and were imposed on developing southern nations. Starting in the 1940s, Latin American leaders and activists were actually early advocates for the international protection of human rights. Sikkink shows that activists and scholars disagree about the efficacy of human rights because they use different yardsticks to measure progress. Comparing the present to the past, she shows that genocide and violence against civilians have declined over time, while access to healthcare and education has increased dramatically. Cognitive and news biases contribute to pervasive cynicism, but Sikkink's investigation into past and current trends indicates that human rights is not in its twilight. Instead, this is a period of vibrant activism that has made impressive improvements in human well-being.Exploring the strategies that have led to real humanitarian gains since the middle of the twentieth century, Evidence for Hope looks at how these essential advances can be supported and sustained for decades to come.

Autor

Kathryn Sikkink is the Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Her books include The Justice Cascade (Norton) and Activists beyond Borders. She lives in Cambridge, MA.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.9.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity
• Reihe/Serie: Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity
• Zusatzinfo: 5 halftones. 19 line illus. 1 table. 1 map.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Accountability • activism • Advocacy • Albert O. Hirschman • Amartya Sen • American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man • Amnesty International • Armenian Genocide • authoritarianism • Bill of Rights 1689 • Cambridge University Press • Capitalism • Civil and Political Rights • Civil Society • Cold War • Colonialism • Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women • Critical theory • Criticism • Decolonization • Democracy • Democratization • Dictatorship • Economic Inequality • economist • Effectiveness • ethnic cleansing • Exclusion • Federal government of the United States • Feminism (international relations) • Forced disappearance • foreign policy • Funding • Government • Great Power • Guatemala • Human Rights • Human Rights Watch • Ideology • impunity • Individual and group rights • Institution • Inter-American Commission on Human Rights • Inter-American Court of Human Rights • International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights • International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights • International Criminal Court • International human rights law • International Law • International Organization • International Relations • John F. Kennedy School of Government • Latin America • lawyer • left-wing politics • Legitimacy (political) • market fundamentalism • national security • Neoliberalism • Non-governmental organization • Nonviolence • north–south divide • of education • Ottoman Empire • Persecution • pessimism • Philosopher • Political prisoner • Political Science • Politicide • Politics • Princeton University Press • Racism • ratification • Regime • rights • Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court • Rule of Law • Slavery • Social Democracy • Social Movement • Social Science • Sovereignty • Soviet Union • Stephen Hopgood • Steven Pinker • Suffering • Suggestion • terrorism • The Better Angels Of Our Nature • Torture • Transitional Justice • Treaty • Unintended Consequences • United Nations Convention against Torture • Universal Declaration of Human Rights • war • War Crime • women's rights • World War II
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8853-0 / 1400888530
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8853-5 / 9781400888535