Europe and the Americas: Transatlantic Approaches to Human Rights

Copyright

Table of Contents

About the Authors and Editors

Introduction

PART I. NEGOTIATING CONCEPTS AND DEFINITIONS

The Beginning of the International Human Rights Era

1: When Peers are Pressing for Progress: The Clash between Hersch Lauterpacht and John Humphrey over the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

2: Race, Social Struggles and “Human” Rights: Contributions from the Global South

3: The Latin-American influence on European Human Rights Law

4: The Jamaican Broker: UN Diplomacy and the Transformantion of International Human Rights, 1962-1968

5: The Past Discontinued: American and European Views on International Criminal Tribunals, 1918-1945 130

Discourses Discussed

6: From “Rights Talk” to “Human Rights Talk”: Transatlantic Dialogues on Human Rights

7: Law as Identity – Diffferent Identities and Diffferent Human Rights Conceptions in Europe and the United States

PART II. ERRATIC FRONTIERS OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Countries in Transition

8: Regime Change in a Transitional Society: The Case of Ukraine

9: Human Rights in and around Cuba: Monolithic Discourse or Actual Alternatives?

10: The Latin American Spring: New Constitutions, Rights and Obligations?

Human Rights Borders Under Pressure

11: Torture: Europe and the Americas

12: The Loaded Gun: The Obama Administration and the Legacy of George W. Bush’s “War on Terror”

13: The Extraterritorial Use of Armed Drones and International Human Rights Law: Diffferent Views on Legality in the US and Europe?

14: Losing the Right to Have Rights: EU Externalization of Border Control

Index