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"This book uses a practice-driven and empirically founded approach to address the question of whether and how international attention can protect and enable domestic human rights activists in authoritarian settings. It examines the untold origin story of the 'human rights defender' term and its uptake among international advocacy organizations, which coalesced with the rise of a theory of human rights change centered around the support for local actors. Rich with analyses of original qualitative and quantitative data, the author spells out this theory of change and tests its assumptions in two case studies: the individual casework of the UN special procedures, and the case of Tunisia under Ben Ali. This book is of key interest to scholars and students of human rights, of the United Nations, and more broadly of international relations and politics in general, and to practitioners working with human rights defenders at risk"--

AbstractThe Academic Freedom in Constitutions dataset is a new resource that empirically maps constitutional guarantees of the freedom of science, of academic freedom, and of university autonomy in 203 countries, spanning the period from 1789 to 2022. While the topic of academic freedom has been gaining increasing prominence in political and legal research over the past decade, it is so far largely absent from the comparative constitutional literature. However, its global codification process holds interesting insights for the study of international norm diffusion, both with respect to its functional connection to higher education development and its distinct constitutional genealogies. The paper first introduces the dataset and explains how it is different from previous coding efforts, before discussing its significance and potential contributions to the comparative legal literature, political science, and other research.

"This book uses a practice-driven and empirically founded approach to address the question of whether and how international attention can protect and enable domestic human rights activists in authoritarian settings. It examines the untold origin story of the 'human rights defender' term and its uptake among international advocacy organizations, which coalesced with the rise of a theory of human rights change centered around the support for local actors. Rich with analyses of original qualitative and quantitative data, the author spells out this theory of change and tests its assumptions in two case studies: the individual casework of the UN special procedures, and the case of Tunisia under Ben Ali. This book is of key interest to scholars and students of human rights, of the United Nations, and more broadly of international relations and politics in general, and to practitioners working with human rights defenders at risk"--

"This book provides empirically grounded insights into the causes, trajectories, and effects of a severe decline in university autonomy and the relationship to other dimensions of academic freedom by comparing in-depth country studies and evidence from a new global timeseries dataset. Drawing attention to ongoing discussions on standards for monitoring and assessment of academic freedom at regional and international organizations, this book identifies a need for clearer standards on academic freedom and a human rights-based definition of university autonomy. Further, the book calls for accompanying international oversight and the inclusion of criteria related to academic freedom in international university rankings. Five expert-authored case studies on academic freedom from diverse nations (Bangladesh, Mozambique, India, Poland, and Turkey) are included in the volume. Drawing on both qualitative and quantitative evidence, the book offers a unique and timely contribution to the field and will be of great interest to scholars, researchers, and students in the fields of higher education, human rights, political science and public policy"--

In diesem Beitrag wird anhand der neusten Daten des Academic Freedom Index (AFI) ein Überblick zum Stand der Wissenschaftsfreiheit in 179 Ländern und Territorien gegeben. Die zugrundeliegenden Trends werden diskutiert und Handlungsempfehlungen für deutsche Hochschulakteure, die internationale Mobilität fördern, ausgesprochen. Die Daten zeigen einen substantiellen Rückgang von Wissenschaftsfreiheit in 19 Ländern bzw. Territorien weltweit, in welchen dieser Trend häufig mit einer sich vertiefenden Autokratisierung zusammenfällt. Die aus dem AFI gewonnenen Erkenntnisse zeigen, dass die wissenschaftliche Mobilität von und nach Deutschland besonders mit Partnerländern intensiv ist, die die Wissenschaftsfreiheit gut schützen. Die Daten unterstreichen ferner die Attraktivität des deutschen Wissenschaftsstandorts und können in der Förderung von internationalem Austausch auch einen besonderen Bedarf für Schulung und Risikomanagement der beteiligten Forschenden, Studierenden und Universitäten aufzeigen.