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Introduction -- The four paradigms or ideal-types in the discipline of international relations -- The different debates in the discipline of international relations -- Realism : theory and (the effectiveness of ) international human rights treaties -- Liberalism : theory and the effectiveness of international human rights treaties -- Institutionalism : theory and the effectiveness of international human rights treaties -- Fairness : theory and the effectiveness of international human rights treaties -- Transnational legal process : theory and the effectiveness of international human rights treaties -- Managerial process : theory and the effectiveness of international human rights treaties -- The autonomous legal discourse and the appellative or the discursive effect of human rights.

1. Introduction: rewriting decisions from a perspective of human rights integration v Eva Brems -- Part I Civil and political rights -- 2. Questions of method : the use of "external sources" in National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers v the United Kingdom (ECtHR) / Sébastien Van Drooghenbroeck, Frédéric Krenc and Olivier Van der Noot -- 3. Standing alone or together: the Human Rights Committee's decision in A.P. v Russian Federation / Gerald L. Neuman -- 4. Use of comparative authority in the drafting of judgments of a new regional human rights court. African Court on Human and peoples' Rights, Zongo v Burkina Faso / Magnus Killander -- 5. Same-sex marriage in polarised times: revisiting Joslin v New Zealand (HRC) / Malcolm Langford -- Part II Economic and social rights -- 6. Caring, rescuing or punishing? Rewriting R.M.S v Spain (ECtHR) from an integrated approach to the rights of women and children in poverty / Valeska David -- 7. Re-imagining human rights responsibility: shared responsibility for austerity measures in Federation of employed pensioners of Greece (IKA-ETAM) v Greece (ECSR) / Wouter Vandenhole -- Part III Women's rights -- 8. Yilmaz-Dogan v The Netherlands (CERD): forum shopping and intersecting grounds of discrimination thirty years later / Rhona Smith -- 9. Developing the full range of state obligations and integrating intersectionality in a case of involuntary sterilization. CEDAW Committee, 4/2004, AS v Hungary / Eva Brems -- 10. Objection ladies! Taking IPPF-EN v Italy (ECSR) one step further / Emmanuelle Bribosia, Ivana Isailovic and Isabelle Rorive -- Part IV Disability rights -- 11. Rewriting CLR on behalf of Valentin Campeanu v Romania (ECtHR): actio popularis as ultimum remedium to enhance access to justice of victims with a mental disability / Helena De Vylder -- 12. Integrating disability and elder rights into the ECHR: rewriting McDonald v the United Kingdom (ECtHR) / Marijke De Pauw and Paul De Hert -- 13. Another look at Glatzel (ECJ). Of principles and discriminations / Antoine Bailleux and Isabelle Hachez -- Part V Indigenous peoples' rights -- 14. Taking seriously Indigenous peoples' right of self-determination and the principle of 'free, prior and informed consent'. Human Rights Committee, 2102/2011, Paadar et al. v Finland / Martin Scheinin -- 15. Rewriting Social and Economic Rights Action Centre and the Centre for Economic and Social Rights v Nigeria (African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights): pushing indigenous peoples' rights in Africa forward / Stefaan Smis and Derek Inman -- 16. Moving human rights jurisprudence to a higher gear: Rewriting the case of the Kichwa Indigenous People of Sarayaku v Ecuador (Inter-Am. Ct HR) / Lieselot Verdonck and Ellen Desmet

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Human Rights against the Maelstroms -- 2 Human Rights, Capitalism, and the Ends of Economic Life -- 3 Remaking Sovereignty in the Image of Human Rights -- 4 Human Rights beyond the Rule of Law -- 5 Decolonizing Human Rights -- 6 Human Rights Otherwise -- 7 The Subjects of Human Rights -- 8 Human Rights in a G20 World -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index

Drawing on resources in classical and contemporary social theory, and working through case studies of Britain, the United States and Japan, Anthony Woodiwiss provides, for the first time, a general sociological account of the development of.