Nordic Histories of Human Rights

Vik, Hanne Hagtvedt (EDT)/ Jensen, Steven L.B. (EDT)/ Lindkvist, Linde (EDT)

Routledge（2024/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 138 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780367517663
• DDC分類 323.0948

Full Description

This book explores the history of Nordic human rights politics and practices from the 1930s to present day. The authors use previously unexplored archival materials to bring to light how a broad range of Nordic actors have engaged with international human rights globally and at a European level and how these norms have been taken up and interpreted in the region.

Do the Nordic countries warrant the label 'global good Samaritans' in human rights promotion? Is the Nordic welfare state a close to perfect realisation of human rights norms? Or do Nordic international and domestic human rights policies constitute a peculiar 'Nordic human rights paradox' where norms are supported internationally while not being implemented at home? Are the ideals of the national welfare state and universal human rights compatible? In this book, the authors take issue with previous scholarship and argue for the need for careful historical investigations into how a broad range of Nordic actors have contributed to creating international human rights. This history is much more varied than what was previously assumed. The lack of prior interest in the region means there are several promising avenues for historical investigations of both the Nordic countries in human rights history and the role of human rights in the history of the region.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal, Nordic Journal of Human Rights.

Contents

1. Histories of Human Rights in the Nordic Countries
2. Scandinavian Legal Realism and Human Rights: Axel Hägerström, Alf Ross and the Persistent Attack on Natural Law
3. Human Rights in Interwar Finland
4. From Global Ambition to Local Reality: Initiatives for the Dissemination of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Norway, 1948-1952
5. Evolving Internationalism: Denmark and Human Rights Politics, 1948-1968
6. International Arenas and Domestic Institution Formation: The Impact of the UN Women's Conferences in Denmark, 1975-1985
7. Rights for the World's Children: Rädda Barnen and the Making of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
8. Deploying the Engagement Policy: The Significance of Legal Dualism in Norway's Support for Human Rights Treaties from the late 1970s