Recent publications on international human rights
| DOI | 10.1177/0924051918801614 |
| Published date | 01 December 2018 |
| Date | 01 December 2018 |
| Subject Matter | Recent publications |
Recent publications
Recent publications on
international human rights
Citizenship, Inequality, and Difference: Historical Perspectives / Frederick Cooper. Princeton
University Press, 2018. ISBN: 0-691-17184-X
Citizenship, Inequality, and Difference offers a concise and sweeping overview of citizenship’s
complex evolution, from ancient Rome to the present. Political leaders and thinkers still debate, as
they did in Republican Rome, whether the presumed equivalence of citizens is compatible with
cultural diversity and economic inequality. Frederick Cooper presents citizenship as ‘‘claim-mak-
ing’’–the assertion of rights in a political entity. What those rights should be and to whom they
should apply have long been subjects for discussion and political mobilization, while the kind of
political entity in which claims and counterclaims have been made has varied over time and space.
Citizenship ideas were first shaped in the context of empires. The relationship of citizenship to
‘‘nation’’ and ‘‘empire’’ was hotly debated after the revolutions in France and the Americas, and
claims to ‘‘imperial citizenship’’ continued to be made in the mid-twentieth century . Cooper
examines struggles over citizenship in the Spanish, French, British, Ottoman, Russian, Soviet,
and American empires, and he explain s the reconfiguration of citizensh ip questions after the
collapse of empires in Africa and India. He explores the tension today between individualistic
and social conceptions of citizenship, as well as between citizenship as an exclusionary notion and
flexible and multinational conceptions of citizenship.
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Convergences and Divergences Between International Human Rights, International Humanitarian
and International Criminal Law / Paul de Hert, Stefaan Smis and Mathias Holvoet (eds). Inter-
sentia, 2018. ISBN: 1-78068-640-4
Although rooted in a similar ideal, human rights (IHRL), international criminal law (ICL) and
international humanitarian law (IHL) are separate fields of law, best represented as circles, each of
which overlaps with the other two. However human rights often seems to absorb the other two,
while in other situations, the lines between human rights law and its next door neighbours are
blurred or contested. This volume consists of three main parts. The first main part explores the
convergences and divergences between IHL and/or IHRL on the one hand, and ICL stricto sensu
on the other hand. The second part investigates the convergences and divergences between IHRL
and transnational crimes, or ICL in the broader sens e, which suppresses crimes such as drug
trafficking, trafficking in human beings and corruption through international treaties providing
for domestic enforcement. The last main part of this volume provides the reader with novel and
original insights as to how IHRL and IHL converge and diverge by considering if and how the
Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights
2018, Vol. 36(4) 319–324
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