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Routledge Studies in Human Rights


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The Routledge Human Rights series publishes high quality and cross-disciplinary scholarship on topics of key importance in human rights today. In a world where human rights are both celebrated and contested, this series is committed to create stronger links between disciplines and explore new methodological and theoretical approaches in human rights research. Aimed towards both scholars and human rights professionals, the series strives to provide both critical analysis and policy-oriented research in an accessible form. The series welcomes work on specific human rights issues as well as on cross-cutting themes and institutional perspectives.

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COVID-19 and Human Rights

COVID-19 and Human Rights

1st Edition

Edited By Morten Kjaerum, Martha F. Davis, Amanda Lyons
June 30, 2021

This timely collection brings together original explorations of the COVID-19 pandemic and its wide-ranging, global effects on human rights. The contributors argue that a human rights perspective is necessary to understand the pervasive consequences of the crisis, while focusing attention on those ...

Why Human Rights Still Matter in Contemporary Global Affairs

Why Human Rights Still Matter in Contemporary Global Affairs

1st Edition

Edited By Mahmood Monshipouri
May 14, 2020

This book elucidates why human rights still matter in contemporary global affairs, and what can lead to better protection of international human rights in a post-liberal order. It blends theoretical, empirical, and normative perspectives, while providing much-needed analysis in light of the perils...

Fundamental Rights Challenges in Border Controls and Expulsion of Irregular Immigrants in the European Union Complaint Mechanisms and Access to Justice

Fundamental Rights Challenges in Border Controls and Expulsion of Irregular Immigrants in the European Union: Complaint Mechanisms and Access to Justice

1st Edition

Edited By Sergio Carrera, Marco Stefan
February 17, 2020

This edited volume examines the extent to which the various authorities and actors currently performing border management and expulsion-related tasks are subject to accountability mechanisms capable of delivering effective remedies and justice for abuses suffered by migrants and asylum seekers. ...

Extending International Human Rights Protections to Vulnerable Populations

Extending International Human Rights Protections to Vulnerable Populations

1st Edition

By Raymond A. Smith
October 08, 2019

This book inductively develops a new typology that identifies and evaluates three principal strategies that have been, and are being, used to extend international human rights protections to new categories of vulnerable populations. The book explicates the evolution and ongoing utility of the ...

Politics of International Human Rights Law Promotion in Western Europe Order versus Justice

Politics of International Human Rights Law Promotion in Western Europe: Order versus Justice

1st Edition

By Koldo Casla
June 20, 2019

This book offers a critical reinterpretation of Western European States’ programmatic support for International Human Rights Law (IHRL) since the 1970s. It examines the systemic or structural constraints inherent to the international legal system and argues that order trumps justice in Western ...

Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy Prevarications and Evasions

Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy: Prevarications and Evasions

1st Edition

By Clair Apodaca
May 21, 2019

Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy provides a comprehensive historical overview and analysis of the complex and often vexing problem of understanding the formation of U.S. human rights policy. The proper place of human rights and fundamental freedoms in U.S. foreign policy has long been debated ...

Truth, Silence and Violence in Emerging States Histories of the Unspoken

Truth, Silence and Violence in Emerging States: Histories of the Unspoken

1st Edition

Edited By Aidan Russell
November 06, 2018

Around the world in the twentieth century, political violence in emerging states gave rise to different kinds of silence within their societies. This book explores the histories of these silences, how they were made, maintained, evaded, and transformed. This book gives a comprehensive view of the ...

Extraordinary Rendition Addressing the Challenges of Accountability

Extraordinary Rendition: Addressing the Challenges of Accountability

1st Edition

Edited By Elspeth Guild, Didier Bigo, Mark Gibney
April 18, 2018

The US led programme of extraordinary rendition created profound challenges for the international system of human rights protection and rule of law. This book examines the efforts of authorities in Europe and the US to re-establish rule of law and respect for human rights through the investigation ...

Human Rights in Democracies

Human Rights in Democracies

1st Edition

By Peter Haschke
November 03, 2017

Violations of the right to the physical integrity of the person, such as torture, cruel and unusual punishment, extra-judicial executions, disappearances, and political imprisonment have long been treated as an anomaly in democratically governed societies. In the current literature on human rights,...

Understanding Statelessness

Understanding Statelessness

1st Edition

Edited By Tendayi Bloom, Katherine Tonkiss, Phillip Cole
June 08, 2017

Understanding Statelessness offers a comprehensive, in-depth examination of statelessness. The volume presents the theoretical, legal and political concept of statelessness through the work of leading critical thinkers in this area. They offer a critique of the existing framework through detailed ...

Sovereignty, State Failure and Human Rights Petty Despots and Exemplary Villains

Sovereignty, State Failure and Human Rights: Petty Despots and Exemplary Villains

1st Edition

By Neil Englehart
May 17, 2017

This book argues that the effectiveness of the state apparatus is one of the crucial variables determining human rights conditions, and that state weakness and failure is responsible for much of the human rights abuses we see today. Weak states are unable to control their own agents or to police ...

A Genealogy of the Torture Taboo

A Genealogy of the Torture Taboo

1st Edition

By Jamal Barnes
April 07, 2017

This book examines the historical genealogy of the torture taboo. The dissonance between the absolute prohibition against torture and its widespread violation raises important questions about the torture taboo in world politics. Does the torture taboo matter? Or are political realists correct in ...

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