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The fifth essay volume in the Changing perspectives on human rights series contains a collection ... more The fifth essay volume in the Changing perspectives on human rights series contains a collection of ten essays on climate change, justice and human rights. The authors explore the opportunities, threats and difficulties at the nexus of human rights and climate change, examining concepts of justice as well as recent human rights approaches to climate change issues in specific policy areas.
With contributions from Ashfaq Khalfan & Chiara Liguori, Eric Posner, Jane McAdam & Sanjula Weerasinghe, Barbara Oomen, Sara Seck, Annalisa Savaresi, Stephen Humphreys, Elizabeth Dirth, Anna Schoemakers and Bridget Lewis.
The Shifting Power and Human Rights Diplomacy series focuses on rising powers and their current a... more The Shifting Power and Human Rights Diplomacy series focuses on rising powers and their current and potential roles in the international protection and promotion of human rights. This volume contains a collection of twelve essays on China’s foreign human rights policy. The authors trace the Chinese visions and narratives that are (re)shaping international norms and standards relating to human rights, discuss the various ways in which China expands its global influence and promotes its views, and give recommendations to various stakeholders on how to uphold and strengthen the human rights system.
The Shifting Power and Human Rights Diplomacy series focuses on rising powers and their current a... more The Shifting Power and Human Rights Diplomacy series focuses on rising powers and their current and potential roles in the international protection and promotion of human rights. In this volume fourteen authors from Russian, European and the United States academia, think tanks and NGO’s write about Russia’s relation with the European Union, religion and human rights in Russian foreign policy and framing and identity in Russian politics.
The Shifting Power and Human Rights Diplomacy series focuses on rising powers and their current a... more The Shifting Power and Human Rights Diplomacy series focuses on rising powers and their current and potential roles in the international protection and promotion of human rights. It contains volumes with original essays on the external human rights policy of rising global and regional powers. Ten authors from German academia, think tanks and NGO’s write about Germany’s relations with other EU member states and rising powers like China and India and the impact on the country’s external human rights policies. Among the contributors to this volume are Ulrike Guérot (author off Warum Europa eine Republik werden muss! Eine politische Utopie), Katrin Kinzelbach (Global Public Policy Institute), Michael Krennerich (Friedrich Alexander University), Andrea Berg and Alexia Knappmann (both working at Amnesty Germany).
The third volume in the Shifting Power and Human Rights Diplomacy series contains a collection of... more The third volume in the Shifting Power and Human Rights Diplomacy series contains a collection of eleven essays on South Africa’s foreign human rights policy. Fifteen authors from South Africa, Asia and the United States write about a variety of topics, including South African geopolitics, internet governance and South Africa’s foreign policy and the Responsibility to Protect from a South African perspective. The volume contains contributions from, among others, Jeremy Sarkin (University of South Africa), Audie Klotz (Syracuse University) and Dan Kuwali (University of Pretoria).
The latest publication of Strategic Studies appears in the series Changing Perspectives on Human ... more The latest publication of Strategic Studies appears in the series Changing Perspectives on Human Rights. The volume Can human rights bring social justice focuses on conceptual and strategic differences and similarities between social justice and human rights. What do human rights have to offer to deprived groups and protest movements that mobilize to demand social justice?
The twelve essays discuss different views on questions such as: Can human rights bring social justice? Can the human rights system speak out on political and economic structures that are seen as causing inequality? Should human rights organizations engage with political resource decisions? Would they risk being viewed as partisan if they engage with issues of redistribution or does their impartiality betray the poor and marginalized if they remain silent on system failures?
The volume contains contributions from, among others, Sara Burke (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung), Samuel Moyn (Harvard), Aryeh Neier (formerly Human Rights Watch) and current and former Directors of Amnesty International such as Widney Brown and David Petrasek.
The first volume in this new series focuses on Brazil and contains nine essays published by Strat... more The first volume in this new series focuses on Brazil and contains nine essays published by Strategic Studies, an initiative of Amnesty International Netherlands. Experts on Brazilian foreign policy critically reflect on the opportunities and threats that this rising power may present to the global human rights regime.
This collection of eight essays explores the opportunities and challenges that a rapidly urbanizi... more This collection of eight essays explores the opportunities and challenges that a rapidly urbanizing world with megacities poses for human rights and for the work of human rights advocates in particular.
The world is inexorably becoming urban. Already, more than half of the world population lives in cities. By the end of this century this will be 90 percent. Cities have a direct impact on the lives of billions of people. Moreover, megacities like Beijing, New York, Sao Paulo and Delhi expand their political weight at the international stage. Nonetheless, the implications of urbanization for human rights are still unclear. Therefore Strategic Studies, an initiative of Amnesty International Netherlands, publishes a new volume in its Changing Perspectives on Human Rights series: The Future of Human Rights in an Urban World.
The essays discuss different views on and aspects of human rights in an urbanized world. One of the authors emphasizes the positive role that mayors play in protecting the rights of migrants, which might create opportunities for human rights advocates. Other authors foresee a world marked by the urban divide between rich and poor in which rights to housing, privacy and protest are increasingly restricted. In this new collection of essays, politicians, policymakers and human rights activists will find inspiring and worrying trends, thoughts and visions on human rights and the city.
This is the second volume in the Shifting Power and Human Rights Diplomacy of Strategic Studies, ... more This is the second volume in the Shifting Power and Human Rights Diplomacy of Strategic Studies, an initiative of Amnesty International Netherlands. This series focuses on rising powers and their current and potential roles in the international protection and promotion of human rights. Will the human rights regime gain more support and legitimacy because of these power shifts, will rising powers try to restore the sanctity of state sovereignty within world politics, or are they aiming for other changes in the international order? This particular collection of essays focuses on India’s foreign human rights policy. Thirteen authors from India, Europe and the United States write about a variety of topics, including Indian geopolitics, internet governance and India’s foreign policy and the Responsibility to Protect from an Indian perspective.
This collection of ten essays discusses Stephen Hopgood's thesis that the future for human rights... more This collection of ten essays discusses Stephen Hopgood's thesis that the future for human rights looks gloomy in a multipolar world of renewed sovereignty, resurgent religion and the rollback of universal human rights. In his recent book The Endtimes of Human Rights (2013) Stephen Hopgood argues that human rights are past their sell-by date. In a multipolar and postsecular world political and public support for overambitious projects as international human rights, the International Criminal Court and the Responsibility to Protect is waning. European universalism is out, worldwide particularism is in. In Debating The Endtimes of Human Rights, a collection of original essays published by Strategic Studies, nine human rights experts critically discuss Hopgood’s provocations, challenge his presumptions, agree with some of his arguments yet often reach opposite conclusions.
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Shifting Power and Human Rights Diplomacy: Brazil, eds Thijs Van Lindert and Lars Van Troost, Amnesty International, Amsterdam , 2014
Domestic politics in Brazil is still very disconnected from the country’s foreign policy and inte... more Domestic politics in Brazil is still very disconnected from the country’s foreign policy and international stance on human rights issues. That indifference creates a twofold problem, both for Brazil’s ambition to be a major world power, and for a world that needs a country with Brazil’s heft and legitimacy with the nations and institutions of both the Global North and South
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In this new essay volume, twelve authors discuss in nine essays how and why illiberal democracies... more In this new essay volume, twelve authors discuss in nine essays how and why illiberal democracies are established and what the consequences of a rise in such democracies will be for human rights advocacy. Furthermore, the authors discuss how governments and non-governmental organizations can respond to the new lack of freedom. Several essays are focused on the developments in European states and the role that the European Union can play in protecting liberal democracy and human rights.
With contributions from Arch Puddington, Takis Pappas, Sabrina de Regt, Eszter Zalan, Ela Goksun & Sasha Polakow-Suransky, Daniel Hegedüs, Robert Dekker & Tineke Cleiren & Ernst Hirsch Ballin, Otto Spijkers, and Steve Crawshaw.
Can human rights bring social justice? This collection of twelve essays explores the differences... more Can human rights bring social justice?
This collection of twelve essays explores the differences and similarities between social justice and human rights, providing divergent perspectives on whether and how human rights NGOs should pursue social justice.
Poverty, inequality and human rights
Worldwide socio-economic inequalities are mounting. While in absolute terms poverty rates are slowly going down, differences in income and wealth are growing. Deprived groups and protest movements mobilize to demand social justice. What do human rights have to offer them? This volume in Strategic Studies’ Changing Perspectives on Human Rights series focuses on conceptual and strategic differences and similarities between social justice and human rights.
Strategic decisions for human rights NGOs working on social justice
The twelve essays discuss different views on questions such as: Can human rights bring social justice? Can the human rights system speak out on political and economic structures that are seen as causing inequality? Should human rights organizations engage with political resource decisions? Would they risk being viewed as partisan if they engage with issues of redistribution or does their impartiality betray the poor and marginalized if they remain silent on system failures? Twelve essays provide diverging perspectives on the potential and limits of human rights for social justice and trade-offs in the strategic decisions of human rights NGOs.
Contributors to this Changing Perspectives on Human Rights volume
With contributions from Eduardo Arenas Catalán, Widney Brown, Sara Burke, Iain Byrne, Koldo Casla, Dan Chong, Ashfaq Khalfan, Rolf Künnemann, Doutje Lettinga, Jacob Mchangama, Samuel Moyn, Aryeh Neier, David Petrasek and Lars van Troost.
The fifth essay volume in the Changing perspectives on human rights series contains a collection ... more The fifth essay volume in the Changing perspectives on human rights series contains a collection of ten essays on climate change, justice and human rights. The authors explore the opportunities, threats and difficulties at the nexus of human rights and climate change, examining concepts of justice as well as recent human rights approaches to climate change issues in specific policy areas.
With contributions from Ashfaq Khalfan & Chiara Liguori, Eric Posner, Jane McAdam & Sanjula Weerasinghe, Barbara Oomen, Sara Seck, Annalisa Savaresi, Stephen Humphreys, Elizabeth Dirth, Anna Schoemakers and Bridget Lewis.
The Shifting Power and Human Rights Diplomacy series focuses on rising powers and their current a... more The Shifting Power and Human Rights Diplomacy series focuses on rising powers and their current and potential roles in the international protection and promotion of human rights. This volume contains a collection of twelve essays on China’s foreign human rights policy. The authors trace the Chinese visions and narratives that are (re)shaping international norms and standards relating to human rights, discuss the various ways in which China expands its global influence and promotes its views, and give recommendations to various stakeholders on how to uphold and strengthen the human rights system.
The Shifting Power and Human Rights Diplomacy series focuses on rising powers and their current a... more The Shifting Power and Human Rights Diplomacy series focuses on rising powers and their current and potential roles in the international protection and promotion of human rights. In this volume fourteen authors from Russian, European and the United States academia, think tanks and NGO’s write about Russia’s relation with the European Union, religion and human rights in Russian foreign policy and framing and identity in Russian politics.
The Shifting Power and Human Rights Diplomacy series focuses on rising powers and their current a... more The Shifting Power and Human Rights Diplomacy series focuses on rising powers and their current and potential roles in the international protection and promotion of human rights. It contains volumes with original essays on the external human rights policy of rising global and regional powers. Ten authors from German academia, think tanks and NGO’s write about Germany’s relations with other EU member states and rising powers like China and India and the impact on the country’s external human rights policies. Among the contributors to this volume are Ulrike Guérot (author off Warum Europa eine Republik werden muss! Eine politische Utopie), Katrin Kinzelbach (Global Public Policy Institute), Michael Krennerich (Friedrich Alexander University), Andrea Berg and Alexia Knappmann (both working at Amnesty Germany).
The third volume in the Shifting Power and Human Rights Diplomacy series contains a collection of... more The third volume in the Shifting Power and Human Rights Diplomacy series contains a collection of eleven essays on South Africa’s foreign human rights policy. Fifteen authors from South Africa, Asia and the United States write about a variety of topics, including South African geopolitics, internet governance and South Africa’s foreign policy and the Responsibility to Protect from a South African perspective. The volume contains contributions from, among others, Jeremy Sarkin (University of South Africa), Audie Klotz (Syracuse University) and Dan Kuwali (University of Pretoria).
The latest publication of Strategic Studies appears in the series Changing Perspectives on Human ... more The latest publication of Strategic Studies appears in the series Changing Perspectives on Human Rights. The volume Can human rights bring social justice focuses on conceptual and strategic differences and similarities between social justice and human rights. What do human rights have to offer to deprived groups and protest movements that mobilize to demand social justice?
The twelve essays discuss different views on questions such as: Can human rights bring social justice? Can the human rights system speak out on political and economic structures that are seen as causing inequality? Should human rights organizations engage with political resource decisions? Would they risk being viewed as partisan if they engage with issues of redistribution or does their impartiality betray the poor and marginalized if they remain silent on system failures?
The volume contains contributions from, among others, Sara Burke (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung), Samuel Moyn (Harvard), Aryeh Neier (formerly Human Rights Watch) and current and former Directors of Amnesty International such as Widney Brown and David Petrasek.
The first volume in this new series focuses on Brazil and contains nine essays published by Strat... more The first volume in this new series focuses on Brazil and contains nine essays published by Strategic Studies, an initiative of Amnesty International Netherlands. Experts on Brazilian foreign policy critically reflect on the opportunities and threats that this rising power may present to the global human rights regime.
This collection of eight essays explores the opportunities and challenges that a rapidly urbanizi... more This collection of eight essays explores the opportunities and challenges that a rapidly urbanizing world with megacities poses for human rights and for the work of human rights advocates in particular.
The world is inexorably becoming urban. Already, more than half of the world population lives in cities. By the end of this century this will be 90 percent. Cities have a direct impact on the lives of billions of people. Moreover, megacities like Beijing, New York, Sao Paulo and Delhi expand their political weight at the international stage. Nonetheless, the implications of urbanization for human rights are still unclear. Therefore Strategic Studies, an initiative of Amnesty International Netherlands, publishes a new volume in its Changing Perspectives on Human Rights series: The Future of Human Rights in an Urban World.
The essays discuss different views on and aspects of human rights in an urbanized world. One of the authors emphasizes the positive role that mayors play in protecting the rights of migrants, which might create opportunities for human rights advocates. Other authors foresee a world marked by the urban divide between rich and poor in which rights to housing, privacy and protest are increasingly restricted. In this new collection of essays, politicians, policymakers and human rights activists will find inspiring and worrying trends, thoughts and visions on human rights and the city.
This is the second volume in the Shifting Power and Human Rights Diplomacy of Strategic Studies, ... more This is the second volume in the Shifting Power and Human Rights Diplomacy of Strategic Studies, an initiative of Amnesty International Netherlands. This series focuses on rising powers and their current and potential roles in the international protection and promotion of human rights. Will the human rights regime gain more support and legitimacy because of these power shifts, will rising powers try to restore the sanctity of state sovereignty within world politics, or are they aiming for other changes in the international order? This particular collection of essays focuses on India’s foreign human rights policy. Thirteen authors from India, Europe and the United States write about a variety of topics, including Indian geopolitics, internet governance and India’s foreign policy and the Responsibility to Protect from an Indian perspective.
This collection of ten essays discusses Stephen Hopgood's thesis that the future for human rights... more This collection of ten essays discusses Stephen Hopgood's thesis that the future for human rights looks gloomy in a multipolar world of renewed sovereignty, resurgent religion and the rollback of universal human rights. In his recent book The Endtimes of Human Rights (2013) Stephen Hopgood argues that human rights are past their sell-by date. In a multipolar and postsecular world political and public support for overambitious projects as international human rights, the International Criminal Court and the Responsibility to Protect is waning. European universalism is out, worldwide particularism is in. In Debating The Endtimes of Human Rights, a collection of original essays published by Strategic Studies, nine human rights experts critically discuss Hopgood’s provocations, challenge his presumptions, agree with some of his arguments yet often reach opposite conclusions.
Shifting Power and Human Rights Diplomacy: Brazil, eds Thijs Van Lindert and Lars Van Troost, Amnesty International, Amsterdam , 2014
Domestic politics in Brazil is still very disconnected from the country’s foreign policy and inte... more Domestic politics in Brazil is still very disconnected from the country’s foreign policy and international stance on human rights issues. That indifference creates a twofold problem, both for Brazil’s ambition to be a major world power, and for a world that needs a country with Brazil’s heft and legitimacy with the nations and institutions of both the Global North and South
In this new essay volume, twelve authors discuss in nine essays how and why illiberal democracies... more In this new essay volume, twelve authors discuss in nine essays how and why illiberal democracies are established and what the consequences of a rise in such democracies will be for human rights advocacy. Furthermore, the authors discuss how governments and non-governmental organizations can respond to the new lack of freedom. Several essays are focused on the developments in European states and the role that the European Union can play in protecting liberal democracy and human rights.
With contributions from Arch Puddington, Takis Pappas, Sabrina de Regt, Eszter Zalan, Ela Goksun & Sasha Polakow-Suransky, Daniel Hegedüs, Robert Dekker & Tineke Cleiren & Ernst Hirsch Ballin, Otto Spijkers, and Steve Crawshaw.
Can human rights bring social justice? This collection of twelve essays explores the differences... more Can human rights bring social justice?
This collection of twelve essays explores the differences and similarities between social justice and human rights, providing divergent perspectives on whether and how human rights NGOs should pursue social justice.
Poverty, inequality and human rights
Worldwide socio-economic inequalities are mounting. While in absolute terms poverty rates are slowly going down, differences in income and wealth are growing. Deprived groups and protest movements mobilize to demand social justice. What do human rights have to offer them? This volume in Strategic Studies’ Changing Perspectives on Human Rights series focuses on conceptual and strategic differences and similarities between social justice and human rights.
Strategic decisions for human rights NGOs working on social justice
The twelve essays discuss different views on questions such as: Can human rights bring social justice? Can the human rights system speak out on political and economic structures that are seen as causing inequality? Should human rights organizations engage with political resource decisions? Would they risk being viewed as partisan if they engage with issues of redistribution or does their impartiality betray the poor and marginalized if they remain silent on system failures? Twelve essays provide diverging perspectives on the potential and limits of human rights for social justice and trade-offs in the strategic decisions of human rights NGOs.
Contributors to this Changing Perspectives on Human Rights volume
With contributions from Eduardo Arenas Catalán, Widney Brown, Sara Burke, Iain Byrne, Koldo Casla, Dan Chong, Ashfaq Khalfan, Rolf Künnemann, Doutje Lettinga, Jacob Mchangama, Samuel Moyn, Aryeh Neier, David Petrasek and Lars van Troost.