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Summary:

"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."

Table of Contents:

• Human rights, liberal democracies and challenges of national security / Kasey McCall-Smith, Andrea Birdsall and Elisenda Casanas Adam
• Part I: Human rights transitions : theoretical debates doctrinal challenges
• Key challenges to human rights in democracies at a time of transition : where to now? / Francesca Klug
• The forgotten principle of fraternité : re-interpreting the last three articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights / Yota Negishi
• Human rights protection and state capacity : the doctrinal implications of the statist character of international human rights law / Mátyás Bódig
• Part II: Co-option and ejection of human rights in liberal democracies
• US counterterrorism and the denial of fundamental rights from torture to fair trial / Kasey McCall-Smith
• Counterterrorism and challenges to human rights : justifying drones and targeted killing as acts of self-defence / Andrea Birdsall
• The alleged backlash against human rights : evidence from Denmark and the UK / Jacques Hartmann and Samuel White
• Part III: Human rights and national security challenges beyond the state
• Surveillance measures and the exception of national security in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights / Pierre Notermans
• Constructing a right to counterterrorism : law, politics and the Security Council / Vivek Bhatt
• Non-state actors that aspire to be states : white spots on the international human rights protection map? / Linda Hamid
• Reflections on human rights and contemporary challenges raised by national security discourse / Kasey McCall-Smith, Andrea Birdsall and Elisenda Casanas Adam.

Contributors:

McCall-Smith, Kasey , editor

Birdsall, Andrea , editor

Casanas Adam, Elisenda , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

United Nations — General Assembly — Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Human rights

National security

Self-defense (International law)

International law and human rights

United Nations

United Nations — General Assembly

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations. General Assembly)

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from title screen (Elgaronline, viewed on December 7, 2020).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

JC571 .H86 2020eb

ISBNs:

1789909899 (electronic book)
9781789909890 (electronic bk.)
9781789909883 (cased) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1224367281