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Contentious compliance : dissent and repression under international human rights law / Courtenay R. Conrad, Emily Hencken Ritter.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2020Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 254 pages) : illustrations (black and white)Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780190911010 (ebook) :Subject(s): International law and human rights
| Human rights | Treaties | Political persecution | Dissenters -- Legal status, laws, etc | Government, Resistance to | Protest movementsAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780190910976DDC classification: 341.48 LOC classification: KZ1266 | .C66 2020Online resources: Oxford scholarship online 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.
| Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| ebook | House of Lords Library - Palace Online access | 1 | Available |
Previously issued in print: 2019.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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