Abstract:When The Power of Human Rights: International Norms and Domestic Change (PoHR) was published, practitioners, state governments and human rights scholars around the world celebrated the fiftieth annive...When The Power of Human Rights: International Norms and Domestic Change (PoHR) was published, practitioners, state governments and human rights scholars around the world celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and the tenth anniversary of the fall of the Iron Curtain. A series of important developments in the world, including rapid ratification of human rights treaties, the incorporation of human rights criteria in foreign policy, and humanitarian interventions justified by human rights concerns, had fueled the perception that nothing could stop the progression of human rights norms. This collective euphoria of a sea change in international relations provided the international context for the "spiral model," as an explanation for human rights change introduced in PoHR.Read More
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-03-06
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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