Conflict and Compliance: State Responses to International Human Rights Pressure (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)

Theoretically and methodologically sophisticated, __Conflict and Compliance__ paints a new picture of the complex dynamics at work when states face competing pressures to comply with and violate international human rights norms. Theoretically and methodologically sophisticated, __Conflict and Compliance__ paints a new picture of the complex dynamics at work when states face competing pressures to comply with and violate international human rights norms. International Human Rights Pressure Has Been Applied To Numerous States With Varying Results. In Conflict And Compliance, Sonia Cardenas Examines Responses To Such Pressure, And She Challenges Conventional Views Of The Reasons States Do - Or Do Not - Comply With International Law. Data From Disparate Bodies Of Research Suggest That More Pressure To Comply With Human Rights Standards Is Not Necessarily More Effective And That International Policies Are More Efficient When They Target The Root Causes Of State Oppression. Cardenas Surveys A Broad Array Of Evidence To Support These Conclusions, Including Latin American Cases That Incorporate Recent Important Declassified Materials, A Statistical Analysis Of All The Countries In The World, And A Set Of Secondary Cases From Eastern Europe, South Africa, China, And Cuba. The Views Of Human Rights Skeptics And Optimists Are Surveyed To Illustrate How State Rhetoric And Behavior Can Be Interpreted Differently Depending On One's Perspective.--book Jacket. Introduction: Compliance Revisited -- Human Rights Pressure And State Violations -- Skeptics Under Fire: Human Rights Change In The Southern Cone -- Bounded Optimism: The Limits Of Human Rights Influence -- State Responses In Global Perspective -- Compliance And Resistance In International Politics -- Appendix: Measuring Human Rights Determinants. Sonia Cardenas. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [143]-176) And Index. International human rights pressure has been applied to numerous states with varying results. In Conflict and Compliance, Sonia Cardenas examines responses to such pressure and challenges conventional views of the reasons states do -- or do not -- comply with international law. Data from disparate bodies of research suggest that more pressure to comply with human rights standards is not necessarily more effective and that international policies are more efficient when they target the root causes of state oppression. Cardenas surveys a broad array of evidence to support these conclusions, including Latin American cases that incorporate recent important declassified materials, a statistical analysis of all the countries in the world, and a set of secondary cases from Eastern Europe, South Africa, China, and Cuba. The views of human rights skeptics and optimists are surveyed to illustrate how state rhetoric and behavior can be interpreted differently depending on one's perspective. Theoretically and methodologically sophisticated, Conflict and Compliance paints a new picture of the complex dynamics at work when states face competing pressures to comply with and violate international human rights norms. Sonia Cardenas is Associate Professor of Political Science at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut

International human rights pressure has been applied to numerous states with varying results. In Conflict and Compliance, Sonia Cardenas examines responses to such pressure and challenges conventional views of the reasons states do—or do not—comply with international law. Data from disparate bodies of research suggest that more pressure to comply with human rights standards is not necessarily more effective and that international policies are more efficient when they target the root causes of state oppression.

Cardenas surveys a broad array of evidence to support these conclusions, including Latin American cases that incorporate recent important declassified materials, a statistical analysis of all the countries in the world, and a set of secondary cases from Eastern Europe, South Africa, China, and Cuba. The views of human rights skeptics and optimists are surveyed to illustrate how state rhetoric and behavior can be interpreted differently depending on one's perspective.

Theoretically and methodologically sophisticated, Conflict and Compliance paints a new picture of the complex dynamics at work when states face competing pressures to comply with and violate international human rights norms.

"International human rights pressure has been applied to numerous states with varying results. In Conflict and Compliance, Sonia Cardenas examines responses to such pressure, and she challenges conventional views of the reasons states do - or do not - comply with international law. Data from disparate bodies of research suggest that more pressure to comply with human rights standards is not necessarily more effective and that international policies are more efficient when they target the root causes of state oppression." "Cardenas surveys a broad array of evidence to support these conclusions, including Latin American cases that incorporate recent important declassified materials, a statistical analysis of all the countries in the world, and a set of secondary cases from Eastern Europe, South Africa, China, and Cuba. The views of human rights skeptics and optimists are surveyed to illustrate how state rhetoric and behavior can be interpreted differently depending on one's perspective."--Résumé de l'éditeur