Irrational Human Rights? an Examination of International Human Rights Treaties

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43975-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 135, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 610 g

Reihe: International Studies in Human Rights

In Irrational Human Rights? An Examination of International Human Rights Treaties Naiade el-Khoury pursues the question how effective international human rights treaties really are and offers a discussion on the effects of treaty mechanisms. Such an examination as to the effects of international human rights treaties, or rather their limits, puts prevalent views of international law to the test. In doing so, this book convincingly argues that rational theories are inadequate to grasp the full effect of international human rights treaties.

Autoren/Hrsg.

El-Khoury, Naiade

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Objective of the Study

2 Approach

2.1 Compliance

2.2 Effectiveness

3 Argument

4 Legal Framework

5 Methodology

6 Structure

PART 1

A Discourse Analysis of Political Theories – in the Presence of a Paradigm Shift

1 Introduction to Part 1

1 The Four Paradigms or Ideal-Types in the Discipline of International Relations

2 The Different Debates in the Discipline of International Relations

1 The First Debate – an Ontological Question

2 The Second Debate – a Methodological Shift

3 The Inter-Paradigmatic Debate

4 The Third Debate – an Epistemological Question

PART 2

Rational Choice Theories and International Human Rights Treaties

1 Introduction to Part 2

3 Realism: Theory and (the Effectiveness of) International Human Rights Treaties

1 An Outdated Realism?

2 Situating Coercion, Effects and State Behaviour – the Existential Dialectics of Love and Power

3 International Human Rights Law – the Function of a Given Political Order

3.1 The Concept of the Lesser Evil

3.2 The Reality of Human Right Norms

3.3 Consecrating the Primacy of the Political

4 Liberalism: Theory and the Effectiveness of International Human Rights Treaties

1 Situating Domestic Politics, Effects and State Behaviour

2 Prognoses on the Effects of State Behaviour

2.1 The Implementation of the International Human Rights Treaties – the Direct Applicability of Human Rights Treaties

2.2 Compliance with Inconvenient Human Rights Treaty Norms

2.2.1 Testing Easy-Detectable Human Rights Treaty Violations

2.2.2 Testing not Easy-detectable Human Rights Treaty Violations

2.2.3 Empirical Evidence and Conflictual Results

5 Institutionalism: Theory and the Effectiveness of International Human Rights Treaties

1 Defining and Identifying Regimes

2 The International Human Rights Treaty Regime

3 Situating International Regimes, Effects and State Behaviour

3.1 Neoliberal Institutionalism

3.1.1 The Reasons Behind Compliance

3.1.2 Rational Choice and Functional Explanation

3.2 Neorealism

3.3 Constructivist Institutionalism

3.3.1 Weak Cognitivists – Leaving Intact the Ontology

3.4 Towards a More Comprehensive Approach – a Contextualized Rationalist Solution

4 Prognoses on the Effects of State Behaviour

4.1 Implementation of International Human Rights Treaties

4.1.1 Reciprocity – Relative Gains and Hegemonic Power

4.1.2 Game Theoretical Constellations

4.2 Compliance with Inconvenient Human Rights Treaty Norms

4.2.1 Circumventing Inconvenient Norms by the Formulation of Reservations

4.2.2 Game Theoretical Constellations

5 Constructivism – Towards an Entire Different Ontology

PART 3

Normative Choice Theories and International Human Rights Treaties

1 Introduction to Part 3

6 Fairness: Theory and the Effectiveness of International Human Rights Treaties

1 Situating Legitimacy and Distributive Justice, Effects and State Behaviour

1.1 Legitimacy – the Procedural Aspect of Fairness

1.2 Distributive Justice – the Substantive Aspect of Fairness

2 Prognoses on the Effects on State Behaviour – the Quest for Rationality

2.1 Considerations of Legitimacy – a ‘Felt’ Sense of Obligation

2.1.1 Determinacy of the ICCPR and the ICESR

2.1.2 Symbolic Validation of International Human Rights Treaties

2.1.3 Coherence in the Application of the ICCPR and the ICESR

2.1.4 Adherence to International Human Rights Treaties

2.2 Considerations of Distributive Justice – the Consequential Effects of Norms

7 Transnational Legal Process: Theory and the Effectiveness of International Human Rights Treaties

1 Situating Vertical Internalization, Effects and State Behaviour

2 Prognosis on the Effects of State Behaviour

2.1 Implementation of International Human Rights Treaties

2.1.1 Constructivist Insights – Legal, Political, Social Strategies of Persuasion

2.1.2 Constructivist Insights – Acculturation as Mechanisms of Persuasion

2.2 Compliance with Inconvenient Human Rights Treaty Norms

2.2.1 Constructivist Insights on the Legal Process and Norm Properties

2.2.2 Constructivist Insights on the Role of Idea and Beliefs

8 Managerial Process: Theory and the Effectiveness of International Human Rights Treaties

1 Situating Persuasiveness, Effects and State Behaviour

1.1 Propensity to Comply

1.2 The Reasons Behind Non-compliance

1.3 Sanctions

1.4 Managerial Strategy

2 Prognoses on the Effects on State Behaviour – the Quest for Dialogue and Capacity Building

2.1 Implementation of the International Human Rights Treaties

2.1.1 A Dynamic of Dialogue and Accountability

2.1.2 The Use of Human Rights Indicators

2.2 Compliance with Inconvenient Human Rights Treaty Norms – a Lack of Discourse or Rather a Meaningless Discourse?

9 The Autonomous Legal Discourse and the Appellative or the Discursive Effect of Human Rights

1 The Concept of Law and the Concept of Legal Validity

2 Effectiveness and Legal Validity – Effectiveness as a Juristic Presupposition

3 Legal Validity, Social Reality, and the Autonomous Human Rights Discourse

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Naiade el-Khoury, Maîtrise und Master 2 Paris X Nanterre, Ph.D. University of Tübingen 2019, Senior Research Fellow Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law, Heidelberg, Germany.