Escaping Human Rights Pressure: How Governments Rhetorically Defend Human Rights Violations

• In Event: Regime Types and Human Rights Abuse

Brief Overview

Analyzing government rhetoric in 20 diverse cases, I examine how governments respond to human rights shaming. Findings suggest that governments try to justify their abuse, appeal to state sovereignty, or attack the credibility of the shaming.

Author

• Ida Braad Albek, Aarhus University