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Human Rights Politics An introduction
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Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Rights
Human Rights Politics
An introduction
Michael Krennerich
Political Science / Human Rights
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.
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.
| Publication Date: | 31 May 2024 |
| Publisher: | Friedrich Naumann Stiftung |
| Imprint: | Springer |
| ISBN-13: | 9783031570254 |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Page Count: | 180 |