International Cooperation and Resistance in Human Rights Promotion Campaigns

Session Submission Type: Virtual Full Paper Panel

Session Description

Research on international human rights and international relations has tended to focus on the causes of repression, the diffusion of norms, the evolution of the international regime, and, increasingly, its effectiveness. However, as of today, fundamental questions about the conditions under which human rights promotion strategies are effective and adverse reactions to these campaigns have remained unexplored. Recent research in international relations has started to shift the focus towards these questions. This panel brings together scholars diverse in gender and stage of career to push the research frontier in the study of international cooperation and human rights. The papers on this panel build on these studies and earlier work and focus on issues of human rights promotion, cooperation, backlash, and norm resistance. Advancing novel arguments and using new data and innovative methods, they provide novel explanations and evidence for why some human rights promotion strategies perform better than others. Together, they make important theoretical and empirical contributions to the study of human rights promotion and open avenues for future research.

Sub Unit

• Division 17: International Collaboration

Individual Presentations

• Choosing Who Intervenes: Regional Organizations and Human Rights - Katherine M Beall, University of California, Berkeley

• Avoiding Backlash and Backsliding: Human Rights Reporting Strategies and Abuse - Sara Kahn-Nisser, The Open University of Israel

• Punishment and Politicization in the International Human Rights Regime - Rochelle Layla Terman, University of Chicago

• Social Influence and Human Rights Policy Change - Gino Pauselli, University of Pennsylvania

Chair

• Jack L. Snyder Columbia University

Discussants

• Jack L. Snyder Columbia University

• Amanda Murdie University of Georgia