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Summary:

International human rights pressure has been applied to numerous states with varying results. In Conflict and Compliance, Sonia Cardenas examines responses to such pressure and challenges conventional views of the reasons states do — or do not — comply with international law. Data from disparate bodies of research suggest that more pressure to comply with human rights standards is not necessarily more effective and that international policies are more efficient when they target the root causes of state oppression. Cardenas surveys a broad array of evidence to support these conclusions, including Latin American cases that incorporate recent important declassified materials, a statistical analysis of all the countries in the world, and a set of secondary cases from Eastern Europe, South Africa, China, and Cuba. The views of human rights skeptics and optimists are surveyed to illustrate how state rhetoric and behavior can be interpreted differently depending on one's perspective.Theoretically and methodologically sophisticated, Conflict and Compliance paints a new picture of the complex dynamics at work when states face competing pressures to comply with and violate international human rights norms. Sonia Cardenas is Associate Professor of Political Science at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Compliance Revisited
• 2. Human Rights Pressure and State Violations
• 3. Skeptics Under Fire: Human Rights Change in the Southern Cone
• 4. Bounded Optimism: The Limits of Human Rights Influence
• 5. State Responses in Global Perspective
• 6. Compliance and Resistance in International Politics
• Appendix: Measuring Human Rights Determinants.

Author/Creator:

Cardenas, Sonia , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

In English.

Main Work:

Conflict and compliance: state responses to international human rights pressure [by Cardenas, S.]

Related Series:

Pennsylvania studies in human rights

Subjects:

Human rights

International relations

General Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed September 15, 2017).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-176) and index.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 188 pages).

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

T174.7 .C373 2007eb

ISBNs:

9780812239997 (print) [Invalid]
0812239997 (print) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1053540636

Other Control Numbers:

3627111 (source: VaAlASP)
[Unknown Type]: ASP3627111/huri