Description
The electoral successes of right-wing populists since 2016 have unsettled world politics. The spread of populism poses dangers for human rights within each country, and also threatens the international system for protecting human rights. Human Rights in a Time of Populism examines causes, consequences, and responses to populism in a global context from a human rights perspective. It combines legal analysis with insights from political science, international relations, and political philosophy. Authors make practical recommendations on how the human rights challenges caused by populism should be confronted. This book, with its global scope, international human rights framing, and inclusion of leading experts, will be of great interest to human rights lawyers, political scientists, international relations scholars, actors in the human rights system, and general readers concerned by recent developments.
Table of Contents
1. Populist Threats to the International Human Rights System Gerald L. Neuman; 2. U.S. Human Rights Policy and the Trump Administration Stephen Pomper and Daniel Levine-Spound; 3. Rule-of-Law Rights and Populist Impatience Jeremy Waldron; 4. Populism and Human Rights in Poland Wojciech Sadurski; 5. Representation, Paternalism, and Exclusion: The Divergent Impacts of the AKP's Populism on Human Rights in Turkey Jamie O'Connell; 6. The Legal Architecture of Populism: Exploring Antagonists in Venezuela and Colombia Helena Alviar García; 7. Penal Populism in Emerging Markets: Human Rights and Democracy in the Age of Strongmen Richard Javad Heydarian; 8. The Populist Threat to Democracy in Myanmar Yee Htun; 9. In Defense of Democratic Populism Douglas A. Johnson; 10. Populism and International Human Rights Law Institutions: A Survival Guide Laurence R. Helfer; 11. Human Rights Responses to the Populist Challenge Gerald L. Neuman; Index.
