The Persistent Power of Human Rights: From Commitment to Compliance

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Part I. Introduction and Stock-Taking: 1. Introduction and overview Thomas Risse and Stephen C. Ropp 2. The power of human rights a decade after: from euphoria to contestation? Anja Jetschke and Andrea Liese 3. From ratification to compliance: quantitative evidence on the spiral model Beth A. Simmons Part II. Conceptual and Methodological Issues: 4. Human rights in areas of limited statehood: the new agenda Tanja A. Borzel and Thomas Risse 5. The 'compliance gap' and the efficacy of international human rights institutions Xinyuan Dai 6. Social mechanisms to promote international human rights: complementary or contradictory? Ryan Goodman and Derek Jinks Part III. From Ratification to Compliance: States Revisited: 7. The normative context of human rights criticism: treaty ratification and UN mechanisms Ann Marie Clark 8. The United States and torture: does the spiral model work? Kathryn Sikkink 9. Resisting the power of human rights: the People's Republic of China Katrin Kinzelbach 10. The 'Arab Spring' and the spiral model: Tunisia and Morocco Vera van Hullen Part IV. From Commitment to Compliance: Companies, Rebel, Individuals: 11. Encouraging greater compliance: local networks and the United Nations Global Compact Wagaki Mwangi, Lothar Rieth and Hans Peter Schmitz 12. Business and human rights: how corporate norm violators become norm entrepreneurs Nicole Deitelhoff and Klaus Dieter Wolf 13. Taming of the warlords: commitment and compliance by armed opposition groups in civil wars Hyeran Jo and Katherine Bryant 14. Changing hearts and minds: sexual politics and human rights Alison Brysk 15. Conclusions Thomas Risse and Kathryn Sikkink.

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