1st Edition
Human Rights Interdependence in National and International Politics Checks and Balances Effect on Global South Politics
This book offers a fresh approach to human rights by analyzing the role of institutional checks and balances, governmentalism and system's approach, intended for the prevention of human rights violations, the enforcement of human rights norms and rules, and important actors such as International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGO), and domestic Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs).
The book presents case studies that offer innovative, political, historical, and social perspectives on how the International Human Rights Regime (IHRG) is practiced. It critically examines the interpretation, inconsistency, and application of the human rights norms in the Global South, and shows how the national mobilization of human rights is directly affected by the interdependence existing between the national and the transnational levels.
This book will be of key interest to scholars, students, and practitioners of human rights, and more broadly of comparative politics, international law, global governance, international and nongovernmental organizations.
Introduction: Human rights, Interdependence, and Checks and Balances in Global South Politics
Rami Goldstein and Nitza Nachmias
Part 1: Theoretical framework and principles
1. The International Human Rights Regime and Checks and Balances in the Global South
Rami Goldstein
2. Truth Commissions and Tribunals in the Global South: Contributions to Transitional Justice Theory
Carolina de Campos Melo, Andrea Bandeira de Mello Schettini and Maria Carolina Coelho de Sousa Soares
3. Interdependence, Checks and Balances, and Human Rights in the Global South
Nitza Nachmias
Part 2: Strategic Interdependence and the role of international organizations and NGO's
4. NGOs and the Protection of Human Rights in a Mutable Humanitarian Environment
Daniela Irrera
5. Institutional Responsibility and the R2P Doctrine in the Global South: The crises in Libya and Syria
Rami Goldstein
6. Rape, War, Genocide: A Strategy to Deliberate Extermination
Amikam Nachmani
Part 3: Case Studies
7. Governance and Human Rights in Liberia during the Taylor Regime
George Klay Kieh, Jr.
8. The ICC Role in the Lawfare of the Gaza Flotilla Dispute
Gregory Rose, Matthijs de Blois and Andrew Tucker
9. Global and Local Governance and Transitional Justice: The Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda
Denis Bikesha and Ruth Amir
10. The Question of Self-determination in East Timor
Pat Walsh
11. Human Rights Activism and the Colombian Constitutional Court: Judicial Review of States of Exception in the 1990s
Jorge González Jácome
12. Human Rights: Conclusion and Implications for the Global South
Rami Goldstein and Nitza Nachmias
Biography
Rami Goldstein is a lawyer and lecturer in International Law and Refugee Law at Bar Ilan University, Israel.
Nitza Nachmias is Professor (emeritus) of Political Science and International Organizations at Towson University, USA.
