Jolyon Ford

Human Rights and Populism (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

For decades, framing an issue as a 'human rights' issue carried certain power and effect in politics and international relations, one that has been challenged by the recent rise of populist political forces.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000931211
• Artikelnr.: 68483760

Autorenporträt

Professor Jolyon Ford re-joined the Australian National University (ANU) Law School in 2015 from research positions with the Royal Institute for International Affairs ('Chatham House') and the Global Governance Programme at the University of Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government. He has over 20 years' experience in over 30 countries, working on legal, human rights, and governance issues in government, an inter-governmental organisation, civil society, think tanks, and the private sector. He is the author of Regulating Business for Peace (Cambridge, 2015) and co-author of Regulatory Insights on Artificial Intelligence (Elgar, 2022). Born and educated in Zimbabwe, he holds degrees from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), Cambridge University, and the ANU.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Questions to explore
Outline of the book
Caveat, clarification, caution
I Patterns: 'Populism' and its claimed impact on human rights in recent
times
Defining 'populism'
Backslide
Backlash
II Problems: Putting the 'populist challenge' narrative in perspective
Couching the 'populist era' in some historical perspective
Enduring critiques or drawbacks of the human rights project
'Distortive'
'Disconnected'
'Delegitimised'
III Progress?: Evaluating proposals to counter populism and revitalise
human rights
Reframing
'Populist backlash' as blindness
'Populist backlash' as distraction
'Populist backlash' as window (of opportunity)
Reviewing
Prescriptions advanced for revitalisating human rights
Evaluating prescriptions for revitalisating human rights
Recalculating
Are human rights still powerful?
A persistent belief in the rights frame
Great expectations?
Questions of substance versus form
Conclusion
Index