Name: Human Rights Politics
ISBN: 978-3-031-57025-4

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Authors:

Michael Krennerich ⁰

Michael Krennerich
1. Centre for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (CHREN), Nürnberg, Germany
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Introduction to both human rights politics and research approaches to analyse them
Includes civil society engagement, state commitments and international efforts to protect human rights
Student-friedly academic introduction to human rights politics, writen in an esay understandable way
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Part of the book series: Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Rights (CHREN, volume 12)

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Keywords

Political nature of human rights
Civil society engagement for human rights
Human rights obligations of states
Regional and global protection of human rights
Research approaches to human rights politics
Open Access

About this book

The book offers a comprehensive and clear introduction for students and those interested in human rights, written by a renowned human rights expert. It not only provides an introduction to the diversity of issues, actors and institutions in human rights policy and politics, but also offers assistance and suggestions on how the complex reality of human rights politics can be described and analysed with the help of political science and related disciplines. It deals with civil society engagement in human rights as well as state obligations and international efforts to protect human rights.

This is an open access book.

Authors and Affiliations

Centre for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (CHREN), Nürnberg, Germany

Michael Krennerich

About the author

Michael Krennerich is Professor of Political Science (main focus: human rights and human rights politics). He holds a doctorate in Political Science, Philosophy and Public Law from Heidelberg University and a post-doctoral Habilitation from the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). Prof. Krennerich was appointed Academic Director of the FAU Research Centre for Human Rights Erlangen-Nuremberg (CHREN) in July 2023. Outside of academia, he is also the chairperson of the NGO “Nuremberg Human Rights Centre” and one of the coordinators of the German NGO-network on human rights “Forum Menschenrechte”. Prof. Krennerich is co-founder and chief-editor of the academic journal “Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte - Journal for Human Rights”, funded in 2007. He has published several monographs and anthologies on human rights as well as a large number of book chapters and journal articles on the topic.

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Human Rights Politics
Book Subtitle: An introduction
Authors: Michael Krennerich
Series Title: Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Rights
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-57025-4Due: 07 June 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-57028-5Due: 07 June 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-57026-1Due: 07 June 2024
Series ISSN: 2509-2960
Series E-ISSN: 2509-2979
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 184

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