Del i serien The Association of Human Rights Institutes series

Human Rights in Times of Transition

Liberal Democracies and Challenges of National Security

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

AvKasey McCall-Smith,Andrea Birdsall,Elisenda Casanas Adam

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This timely book explores the extent to which national security has affected the intersection between human rights and the exercise of state power. It examines how liberal democracies, long viewed as the proponents and protectors of human rights, have transformed their use of human rights on the global stage, externalizing their own internal agendas.Contextualizing human rights goals, structures and challenges in the immediate post-UDHR era, key chapters analyse the role that national security has played in driving competition between individual rights and rhetoric-laden, democracy-reinforcing approaches to collective rights of security. Internationally diverse authors offer evocative insights into the ways in which law is used to manipulate both intra and interstate relationships, and demonstrate the constant tensions raised by a human rights system that is fundamentally state-centric though defined by individuals' needs and demands. Acknowledging the challenges in contemporary human rights practice, policy and discourse as features of transitional eras in human rights, this forward-thinking book identifies opportunities to correct past inadequacies and promote a stronger system for the future.This is a hard-hitting and much needed study for students and scholars of human rights, security law, constitutional law and international relations more widely. Its practical dimensions will also greatly benefit practitioners in the field.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-11-24
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieThe Association of Human Rights Institutes series
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781789909883

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Contents:1 Human rights, liberal democracies and challenges ofnational security 1Kasey McCall-Smith, Andrea Birdsall andElisenda Casanas AdamPART I HUMAN RIGHTS TRANSITIONS –THEORETICAL DEBATES AND DOCTRINALCHALLENGES2 Key challenges to human rights in democracies at a time oftransition: Where to now? 16Francesca Klug3 The forgotten principle of fraternité : Re-interpreting thelast three articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 41Yota Negishi4 Human rights protection and state capacity: The doctrinalimplications of the statist character of international humanrights law 64Mátyás BódigPART II CO-OPTION AND EJECTION OF HUMANRIGHTS IN LIBERAL DEMOCRACIES5 US counterterrorism and the denial of fundamental rightsfrom torture to fair trial 90Kasey McCall-Smith6 Counterterrorism and challenges to human rights:Justifying drones and targeted killing as acts of self-defence 116Andrea Birdsall7 The alleged backlash against human rights: Evidence fromDenmark and the UK 139Jacques Hartmann and Samuel WhitePART III HUMAN RIGHTS AND NATIONALSECURITY CHALLENGES BEYOND THE STATE8 Surveillance measures and the exception of nationalsecurity in the case law of the European Court ofHuman Rights 165Pierre Notermans9 Constructing a right to counterterrorism: Law, politics andthe Security Council 189Vivek Bhatt10 Non-state actors that aspire to be states: White spots on theinternational human rights protection map? 216Linda Hamid11 Reflections on human rights and contemporary challengesraised by national security discourse 242Kasey McCall-Smith, Andrea Birdsall andElisenda Casanas AdamIndex 255

'The current Covid-19 pandemic, which resulted in unprecedented human rights restrictions around the globe, provides an excellent opportunity to reflect on the role of "human rights in times of transition". After a period of polarization during the Cold War, a short window of opportunity during the 1990s, the national security challenges after 9/11, and recent threats by nationalism, populism, new authoritarianism and the current public health crisis, it is high time to discuss the need for a revival of human rights to master the enormous challenges of the post-Covid-19 era.'