Between Universalism and Regional Law and Politics: A Comparative History of the American, European and African Human Rights Systems
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Between Universalism and Regional Law and Politics: A Comparative History of the American, European and African Human Rights Systems. / Huneeus, Alexandra; Madsen, Mikael Rask.
I: International Journal of Constitutional Law, Bind 16, Nr. 1, 2018, s. 136-160.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Between Universalism and Regional Law and Politics:
T2 - A Comparative History of the American, European and African Human Rights Systems
AU - Huneeus, Alexandra
AU - Madsen, Mikael Rask
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - This article represents a first systematic attempt to compare the institutional histories of the regional human rights systems in Europe, the Americas, and Africa. It argues that the three main regional human rights systems have enacted common scripts that have produced relatively similar institutional models across the regions under scrutiny. This is not to deny, however, the enormous variation among the systems; nor is it to deny the role of local social and political contexts in shaping them. Rather, the analysis seeks precisely to identify both the common institutional scripts and the regional particularities to render the general history of regional human rights courts and commissions-a key component of the larger history of human rights that has been largely overlooked in current debates. We argue that the dynamics of the Cold War initially shaped the bounds within which actors in each region came to realize, re-shape, and re-signify common institutional scripts.
AB - This article represents a first systematic attempt to compare the institutional histories of the regional human rights systems in Europe, the Americas, and Africa. It argues that the three main regional human rights systems have enacted common scripts that have produced relatively similar institutional models across the regions under scrutiny. This is not to deny, however, the enormous variation among the systems; nor is it to deny the role of local social and political contexts in shaping them. Rather, the analysis seeks precisely to identify both the common institutional scripts and the regional particularities to render the general history of regional human rights courts and commissions-a key component of the larger history of human rights that has been largely overlooked in current debates. We argue that the dynamics of the Cold War initially shaped the bounds within which actors in each region came to realize, re-shape, and re-signify common institutional scripts.
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U2 - 10.1093/icon/moy011
DO - 10.1093/icon/moy011
M3 - Journal article
VL - 16
SP - 136
EP - 160
JO - International Journal of Constitutional Law
JF - International Journal of Constitutional Law
SN - 1474-2640
IS - 1
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