Human Rights in a Time of Populism
Challenges and Responses

Leading experts examine the threats posed by populism to human rights and the international systems and explore how to confront them.

Gerald L. Neuman (Edited by)

9781108485494, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 9 April 2020

250 pages
23.5 x 15.5 x 2 cm, 0.53 kg

'All in all, a fascinating study on the causes, consequences, and responses of populism, put together by distinguished legal scholars, political scientists, and human rights experts.' P. Kurzer, Choice

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Human rights & civil liberties law [LNDC], International human rights law [LBBR], Human rights [JPVH], Comparative politics [JPB]