Human Rights Futures

356 Pages·2017·2.645 MB·English

by  Stephen Hopgood, Jack Snyder, Leslie Vinjamuri

Human Rights Futures
Inonecollectedvolume,mainstreamandcriticalhumanrightsscholars
togetherexaminetheempiricalandnormativedebatesaroundthefuture
of human rights. They ask what makes human rights effective, what
strategieswillenhancethechancesofcompliance,whatblocksprogress,
andwhetherthehopeforhumanrightsisentirelymisplacedinarapidly
transformingworld.HumanRightsFuturesseestheworldasatacrucial
juncture. The project for globalizing rights will either continue to be
embeddedorwillfallbackwardintoamaelstromofnationalistbacklash,
religious resurgence and faltering Western power. Each chapter talks
directlytotheothersinaninteractivedialogue,providingatheoretical
andmethodologicalframeworkforaclearresearchagendaforthenext
decade. Scholars, graduate students and practitioners of political
science,history,sociology,lawand developmentwillfindmuch,both
tochallengeandprovokethem,inthisinnovativebook.
Stephen Hopgood is Professor of International Relations at SOAS,
UniversityofLondon,andauthorofKeepersoftheFlame:Understanding
AmnestyInternational(2006),whichwontheAPSABestBookinHuman
RightsAwardin2007,andTheEndtimesofHumanRights(2013).
JackSnyderistheRobertand RenéeBelferProfessorof International
Relations in the Political Science Department and the Saltzman
InstituteofWarandPeaceStudiesatColumbiaUniversityintheCity
of New York. His books include Ranking the World: Grading States as
a Tool of Global Governance (with Alexander Cooley, Cambridge
UniversityPress,2015).
LeslieVinjamuriisAssociateProfessorofInternationalRelations,and
Director of the Centre on Conflict, Rights and Justice at SOAS,
University of London. Recent works include The Distant Promise of a
NegotiatedJustice(2017).

Human Rights Futures
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Stephen Hopgood
SOAS,UniversityofLondon
Jack Snyder
ColumbiaUniversity,NewYork
Leslie Vinjamuri
SOAS,UniversityofLondon
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Contents
ListofFigures pagevii
ListofContributors viii
Acknowledgments x
1 Introduction:HumanRightsPast,Present,andFuture 1
stephen hopgood, jack snyder,
and leslie vinjamuri
2 HumanRightsData,Processes,andOutcomes:
HowRecentResearchPointstoaBetterFuture 24
geoff dancy and kathryn sikkink
3 HumanRightsandHumanWelfare:Looking
fora“DarkSide”toInternationalHumanRightsLaw 60
beth a. simmons and anton strezhnev
4 EmpoweringRightsThroughMassMovements,
Religion,andReformParties 88
jack snyder
5 HumanRightsBacklash 114
leslie vinjamuri
6 HumanRightsinAreasofLimitedStatehood:
FromtheSpiralModeltoLocalizationandTranslation 135
thomas risse
7 GroundingtheBacklash:RegionalSecurityTreaties,
Counternorms,andHumanRightsinEurasia 159
alexander cooley and matthew schaaf
8 GoverningReligionasRight 189
elizabeth shakman hurd
9 TheVernacularizationofWomen’sHumanRights 213
sally engle merry and peggy levitt
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10 Re-FramingHumanRightsAdvocacy:TheRise
ofEconomicRights 237
shareen hertel
11 HumanRightsandtheCrisisofLiberalism 261
samuel moyn
12 HumanRightsontheRoadtoNowhere 283
stephen hopgood
13 Conclusion:HumanRightsFutures 311
stephen hopgood, jack snyder,
and leslie vinjamuri
Index 331
Figures
2.1 GlobalTrendsinWomen’sRightsoverTime page27
2.2 GlobalAverageStandard-BasedHumanRightsScores 29
2.3 Fariss’sGlobalLatentRespectforPhysicalIntegrity 31
2.4 GlobalAverageEconomicandSocialConditions
overTime 33
2.5 CorrelationBetweenHumanRightsProsecutions
andProtestEventsoverTime 42
3.1 MeanCIRIHumanRightsScoresoverTime(1981–2007) 74
3.2 TotalandControlledDirectEffectsofICCPRRatification
onCIRIDisappearanceRating 76
3.3 AidFlowsbySectorfrom17OECDDonors 78
3.4 PatternsinperCapitaGDPAmongHigh-Commitment
andLow-CommitmentStates(1950–2007) 79
3.5 NoEvidenceofanAssociationBetweenChanges
inHRCommitmentsandChangesinHDI 80
3.6 NoMeaningfulRelationshipBetweenMeasures
ofIncomeInequalityandNumberofHumanRights
AgreementsRatified 82
6.1 HumanRightsbyRegimeTypeandDegreeofStatehood 145
6.2 HumanRightsProtectingStatesandAreasofLimited
Statehood 147
6.3 HumanRightsViolatingStatesandAreasofLimited
Statehood 147
9.1 PosterCreatedbyVikalptoPromoteLesbianRights 226
11.1 TheIncidenceof“LiberalInternationalism”
intheEnglishLanguage 276
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Contributors
alexander cooley istheClaireTowProfessorofPoliticalScienceat
Barnard College and Director of Columbia University’s Harriman
Institute for the Study of Russia, Eurasia, and Eastern Europe. His
booksincludeGreatGames,LocalRulesandDictatorsBeyondBorders.
geoff dancy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political
ScienceatTulaneUniversity.HiscurrentbookprojectiscalledBeyond
Backlash:APragmatistApproachtoHumanRightsLawandActivism.
shareen hertel is Associate Professor of Political Science at the
University of Connecticut, jointly appointed with the university’s
Human Rights Institute. She is the author of Unexpected Power:
Conflict and Change Among Transnational Activists, and editor of
TheJournalofHumanRights.
stephen hopgood is Professor of International Relations at SOAS,
University of London, and author of Keepers of the Flame:
Understanding Amnesty International, which won the APSA Best Book
in Human Rights Award in 2007, and The Endtimes of Human Rights
(2013).
elizabeth shakman hurd is Professor of Political Science and
Religious Studies at Northwestern University. Her books include
ThePoliticsofSecularisminInternationalRelationsandBeyondReligious
Freedom:TheNewGlobalPoliticsofReligion.
peggy levitt is Chair of the Sociology Department and the Luella
LaMer Slaner Professor in Latin American Studies at Wellesley
College and Co-Director of Harvard University’s Transnational
Studies Initiative. Her most recent book is Artifacts and Allegiances:
HowMuseumsPuttheNationandtheWorldonDisplay.
sally engle merry is Silver Professor of Anthropology at New York
UniversityandaFacultyDirectoroftheCenterforHumanRightsand
Global Justice at the New York University School of Law. Her most
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