Europe and the Americas : transatlantic approaches to human rights

In Europe and the Americas: Transatlantic Approaches to Human Rights , leading scholars of different disciplines offer new insight into transatlantic approaches to human rights. At a time when global challenges (economic crises, poverty, terrorism, mass migration and climate change) have a profound impact on the universal development of human rights and democracy, a common transatlantic understanding of human rights may prove instrumental in meeting these challenges.

Through conceptual discussions, by analysing different human rights topics in different periods and regions (Europe, the United States and Latin America), and by focusing on a diverse range of actors, from policy makers and judicial institutions to academics and civil society, the authors identify key developments of human rights within a transatlantic framework.

• About the Authors p. vii
• Introduction p. 1 Erik André Andersen and Eva Maria Lassen
• Part I Negotiating Concepts and Definitions
• The Beginning of the International Human Rights Era p. 15
• 1 When Peers are Pressing for Progress: The Clash between Hersch Lauterpacht and John Humphrey over the Universal Declaration of Human Rights p. 16 Eva Maria Lassen
• 2 Race, Social Struggles and "Human" Rights: Contributions from the Global South p. 41 Julia Suárez-Krabbe
• 3 The Latin-American influence on European Human Rights Law p. 73 Jonas Christoffersen
• 4 The Jamaican Broker: UN Diplomacy and the Transformantion of International Human Rights, 1963-1968 p. 91 Steven L. B. Jensen
• 5 The Past Discontinued: American and European Views on International Criminal Tribunals, 1918-1945 p. 130 Erik André Andersen
• Discourses Discussed p. 161
• 6 From "Rights Talk" to "Human Rights Talk": Transatlantic Dialogues on Human Rights p. 162 Helle Porsdam
• 7 Law as Identity - Different Identities and Different Human Rights Conceptions in Europe and the United States p. 188 Sten Schaumburg-Mülter
• Part II Erratic Frontiers of Human Rights
• Countries in Transition p. 213
• 8 Regime Change in a Transitional Society: The Case of Ukraine p. 214 Srdjan Darmanovic
• 9 Human Rights in and around Cuba: Monolithic Discourse or Actual Alternatives? p. 250 Jan Gustafsson
• 10 The Latin American Spring: New Constitutions, Rights and Obligations? p. 276 Annali Kristiansen
• Human Rights Borders Under Pressure p. 298
• 11 Torture: Europe and the Americas p. 299 Manfred Nowak and Karolina Miriam Januszewski
• 12 The Loaded Gun: The Obama Administration and the Legacy of George W. Bush's "War on Terror" p. 337 Niels Bjerre-Poulsen
• 13 The Extraterritorial Use of Armed Drones and International Human Rights Law: Different Views on Legality in the US and Europe? p. 360 Peter Vedel Kessing
• 14 Losing the Right to Have Rights: EU Externalization of Border Control p. 393 Martin Lemberg-Pedersen
• Index p. 418