Europe and the Americas : : transatlantic approaches to human rights / / edited by Erik André Andersen and Eva Maria Lassen.

• TeilnehmendeR: Andersen, Erik André,; Lassen, Eva Maria ,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (431 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In Europe and the Americas: Transatlantic Approaches to Human Rights , leading scholars of different disciplines offer new insight into transatlantic approaches to human rights. At a time when global challenges (economic crises, poverty, terrorism, mass migration and climate change) have a profound impact on the universal development of human rights and democracy, a common transatlantic understanding of human rights may prove instrumental in meeting these challenges. Through conceptual discussions, by analysing different human rights topics in different periods and regions (Europe, the United States and Latin America), and by focusing on a diverse range of actors, from policy makers and judicial institutions to academics and civil society, the authors identify key developments of human rights within a transatlantic framework.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Erik André Andersen and Eva Maria Lassen -- Introduction / Erik André Andersen and Eva Maria Lassen -- When Peers are Pressing for Progress: The Clash between Hersch Lauterpacht and John Humphrey over the Universal Declaration of Human Rights / Eva Maria Lassen -- Race, Social Struggles and “Human” Rights: Contributions from the Global South / Julia Suárez-Krabbe -- The Latin-American influence on European Human Rights Law / Jonas Christofffersen -- The Jamaican Broker: UN Diplomacy and the Transformantion of International Human Rights, 1962-1968 / Steven L. B. Jensen -- The Past Discontinued: American and European Views on International Criminal Tribunals, 1918-1945 / Erik André Andersen -- From “Rights Talk” to “Human Rights Talk”: Transatlantic Dialogues on Human Rights / Helle Porsdam -- Law as Identity – Diffferent Identities and Diffferent Human Rights Conceptions in Europe and the United States / Sten Schaumburg-Müller -- Regime Change in a Transitional Society: The Case of Ukraine / Srdjan Darmanovic -- Human Rights in and around Cuba: Monolithic Discourse or Actual Alternatives? / Jan Gustafsson -- The Latin American Spring: New Constitutions, Rights and Obligations? / Annali Kristiansen -- Torture: Europe and the Americas / Manfred Nowak and Karolina Miriam Januszewski -- The Loaded Gun: The Obama Administration and the Legacy of George W. Bush’s “War on Terror” / Niels Bjerre-Poulsen -- The Extraterritorial Use of Armed Drones and International Human Rights Law: Diffferent Views on Legality in the US and Europe? / Peter Vedel Kessing -- Losing the Right to Have Rights: EU Externalization of Border Control / Martin Lemberg-Pedersen -- Index / Erik André Andersen and Eva Maria Lassen.