Keepers of the Flame: Understanding Amnesty International
In: World politics: a quarterly journal of international relations, Band 61, Heft 2, S. 360-401
ISSN: 0043-8871
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In: World politics: a quarterly journal of international relations, Band 61, Heft 2, S. 360-401
ISSN: 0043-8871
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In: Journal of peace research, Band 44, Heft 4, S. 407-425
ISSN: 1460-3578
International human rights treaties have been ratified by many nation-states, including those ruled by repressive governments, raising hopes for better practices in many corners of the world. Evidence increasingly suggests, however, that human rights laws are most effective in stable or consolidating democracies or in states with strong civil society activism. If so, treaties may be failing to make a difference in those states most in need of reform — the world's worst abusers — even though they have been the targets of the human rights regime from the very beginning. The authors address this question of compliance by focusing on the behavior of repressive states in particular. Through a series of cross-national analyses on the impact of two key human rights treaties, the article demonstrates that (1) governments, including repressive ones, frequently make legal commitments to human rights treaties, subscribing to recognized norms of protection and creating opportunities for socialization and capacity-building necessary for lasting reforms; (2) these commitments mostly have no effects on the world's most terrible repressors even long into the future; (3) recent findings that treaty effectiveness is conditional on democracy and civil society do not explain the behavior of the world's most abusive governments; and (4) realistic institutional reforms will probably not help to solve this problem.
In: Journal of peace research, Band 44, Heft 4, S. 379-384
ISSN: 1460-3578
International human rights language has swept across the landscape of contemporary world politics in a trend that began in the 1970s, picked up speed after the Cold War's end, and quickened yet again in the latter half of the 1990s. Yet, while this human rights `talk' has fundamentally reshaped the way in which global policy elites, transnational activists, and some national leaders talk about politics and justice, actual impacts are more difficult to discern, requiring more nuance and disaggregation. Importantly, there may be substantial cross-regional variations, due to varying colonial and post-colonial histories, and different trajectories in state—society relations. In some instances, there are also important differences in tone between qualitative and quantitative researchers. While many case-study scholars tend to be rather optimistic about the potential for human rights change, statistically inclined researchers often lean towards greater caution and, in some cases, downright skepticism about the trans-formative potential of international human rights law and advocacy. Given that international human rights treaties, human rights reporting, democracy, and elections do not always influence state practice in expected ways, the authors call for more regionally disaggregated studies, coupled with greater efforts to combine qualitative and quantitative research techniques.
In: Journal of Peace Research, no. 4, 2007, pp. 379–383 vol. 44,
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In: Journal of peace research, Band 44, Heft 4, S. 379-384
ISSN: 0022-3433
In: Journal of peace research, Band 44, Heft 4, S. 407-426
ISSN: 0022-3433
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 110, Heft 5, S. 1373-1411
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: AJS Volume 110 Number 5 (March 2005): 1373–1411
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In: AJS Volume 110 Number 5 (March 2005): 1373–1411
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In: European journal of international relations, Band 8, Heft 3, S. 339-373
ISSN: 1354-0661
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In: Human rights quarterly, Band 41, Heft 1, S. A-1-A-11
ISSN: 1085-794X
In: American journal of international law: AJIL, Band 108, Heft 3, S. 597-601
ISSN: 2161-7953
In: Conflict management and peace science: the official journal of the Peace Science Society (International), Band 29, Heft 3, S. 257-278
ISSN: 1549-9219
There is growing evidence that preferential trade agreements (PTAs) provide strong institutional incentives to prevent international conflict among member states, often creating the conditions of trust that can help prevent militarized aggression. We provide an approach to the study of how international institutions influence conflict behavior that considers how PTAs exclude as well as include members and create asymmetrical relationships among members that could exacerbate conflict. PTAs do more than create expectations of economic gains and reduce opportunism; they also create hierarchical relations between states, which can encourage conflict under different conditions due to distrust. We theorize these conditions for militarized international disputes, develop appropriate measures using social network analysis, and test our expectations on new PTA data during the period 1950 to 2000.
In: Conflict management and peace science: CMPS ; journal of the Peace Science Society ; papers contributing to the scientific study of conflict and conflict analysis, Band 29, Heft 3, S. 257-279
ISSN: 0738-8942