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oapen-20.500.12657-301402024-03-25T09:51:08Z Human Rights and Democracy Landman, Todd Political Science Authoritarianism Democracy Democratization Human rights thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory Combines an overview of the key theoretical models of democracy and human rights with a state-of-the-art survey which reports on trade-offs between achievements, set-backs and challenges in some of the world's 'hotspots'. The 20th century has been described as the bloodiest in human history, but it was also the century in which people around the world embraced ideas of democracy and human rights as never before, constructing social, political and legal institutions seeking to contain human behaviour. Todd Landman offers an optimistic, yet cautionary tale of these developments, drawing on the literature, from politics, international relations and international law. He celebrates the global turn from tyranny and violence towards democracy and rights but also warns of the precariousness of these achievements in the face of democratic setbacks and the undermining of rights commitments by many countries during the so-called ‘War on Terror'. 2018-05-18 23:55 2020-03-14 03:00:32 2020-04-01T12:46:04Z 2020-04-01T12:46:04Z 2013 book 649960 OCN: 868980102 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30140 eng application/pdf application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781849664868.pdf 9781849663472.epub Bloomsbury Academic 103412 066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b Knowledge Unlatched Knowledge Unlatched (KU) London 103412 KU Pilot open access
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Combines an overview of the key theoretical models of democracy and human rights with a state-of-the-art survey which reports on trade-offs between achievements, set-backs and challenges in some of the world's 'hotspots'. The 20th century has been described as the bloodiest in human history, but it was also the century in which people around the world embraced ideas of democracy and human rights as never before, constructing social, political and legal institutions seeking to contain human behaviour. Todd Landman offers an optimistic, yet cautionary tale of these developments, drawing on the literature, from politics, international relations and international law. He celebrates the global turn from tyranny and violence towards democracy and rights but also warns of the precariousness of these achievements in the face of democratic setbacks and the undermining of rights commitments by many countries during the so-called ‘War on Terror'.
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