Human Rights in Times of Transition : Liberal Democracies and Challenges of National Security /: Liberal Democracies and Challenges of National Security. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kasey McCall-Smith, Andrea Birdsall, Elisenda Casanas Adam.
• Editors: McCall-Smith, Kasey; Birdsall, Andrea; Casanas Adam, Elisenda
• Contents: Contents: 1 Human rights, liberal democracies and challenges of national security 1 Kasey McCall-Smith, Andrea Birdsall and Elisenda Casanas Adam PART I HUMAN RIGHTS TRANSITIONS – THEORETICAL DEBATES AND DOCTRINAL CHALLENGES 2 Key challenges to human rights in democracies at a time of transition: Where to now? 16 Francesca Klug 3 The forgotten principle of fraternité : Re-interpreting the last three articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 41 Yota Negishi 4 Human rights protection and state capacity: The doctrinal implications of the statist character of international human rights law 64 Mátyás Bódig PART II CO-OPTION AND EJECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN LIBERAL DEMOCRACIES 5 US counterterrorism and the denial of fundamental rights from torture to fair trial 90 Kasey McCall-Smith 6 Counterterrorism and challenges to human rights: Justifying drones and targeted killing as acts of self-defence 116 Andrea Birdsall 7 The alleged backlash against human rights: Evidence from Denmark and the UK 139 Jacques Hartmann and Samuel White PART III HUMAN RIGHTS AND NATIONAL SECURITY CHALLENGES BEYOND THE STATE 8 Surveillance measures and the exception of national security in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights 165 Pierre Notermans 9 Constructing a right to counterterrorism: Law, politics and the Security Council 189 Vivek Bhatt 10 Non-state actors that aspire to be states: White spots on the international human rights protection map? 216 Linda Hamid 11 Reflections on human rights and contemporary challenges raised by national security discourse 242 Kasey McCall-Smith, Andrea Birdsall and Elisenda Casanas Adam Index 255.
• Publisher Details: Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (288 pages)
• Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Human Rights; International human rights law; LAW -- Civil Rights; LAW -- Constitutional; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General; Human rights & civil liberties law; Human rights
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781789909890; 1789909899
• Related ISBNs: 9781789909883
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