Contentious compliance : dissent and repression under international human rights law / Courtenay R. Conrad, Emily Hencken Ritter.
Do international human rights treaties constrain governments from repressing their populations? Government authorities routinely ignore their international obligations, and countries with poor human rights records join international treaties and yet continue to violate rights. Contentious Compliance...
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| Main Authors: | , |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2020.
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| Series: | Oxford scholarship online.
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| Summary: | Do international human rights treaties constrain governments from repressing their populations? Government authorities routinely ignore their international obligations, and countries with poor human rights records join international treaties and yet continue to violate rights. Contentious Compliance presents a new theory of treaty effects founded on the idea that governments repress as part of a domestic conflict with potential or actual dissidents. |
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| Item Description: | Previously issued in print: 2019. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 254 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190911010 (ebook) |
| DOI: | 10.1093/oso/9780190910976.001.0001 |