Pensum/l?ringskrav

B?ker:

Akira; Goedde og Hitchcock ( red.). The Human Rights Revolution: An International History, New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. F?lgende kapitler:

Moyn, Samuel. ¡°Imperialism, Self-Determination, and the Rise of Human Rights¡±. S.159-178.

1. Snyder, Sarah. ¡°Principles Overwhelming Tanks: Human Rights and the End of the Cold War¡±. S. 265-283.
2. Keys, Barbara. ¡°Anti-Torture Politics: Amnesty International, the Greek Junta, and the Origins of the Human Rights Boom in the United States¡±. S. 201-214.

Hoffmann, Stefan-Ludwig (red.). Human Rights in the Twentieth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. F?lgende kapitler:

1. Amos, Jennifer. ¡°Embracing and Contesting: The Soviet Union and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948¨C1958¡±. S. 147¨C165.
2. Eckert, Andreas. ¡°African Nationalists and Human Rights, 1940¨C1970¡±. S. 283¨C300.
3. Madsen, Mikael Rask. ¡°¡®Legal Diplomacy¡¯ ¨C Law, Politics and the Genesis of Postwar European Human Rights¡±. S. 63-85.
4. Mazower, Mark. ¡°The End of Civilization and the Rise of Human Rights. The Mid¨CTwentieth¨CCentury Disjuncture¡±. S. 29¨C44.
5. Nathans, Benjamin. ?Soviet Rights-talk in the Post-Stalin Era?, s. 166-190. (ny)

Lauren, Paul Gordon. The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen 3r ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. S. 1-226.

Martinez, Jenny S. The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Law. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. S. 3-148.

?vrig litteratur:

€ Alson, Philip. Book review: Does the past matter? On the origins of human rights. The slave trade and the origins of international human rights law. By Jenny S. Martinez. 126 Harv. L. Rev. 2012-2013, s. 2043-2081. (ny)

€ Afshari, Reza. ¡°On Historiography of Human Rights: Reflections on Paul Gordon Lauren's ¡®The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen¡¯¡±. Human Rights Quarterly 29 (2007): 1-67.

 € Anderson, Carol. ¡°From Hope to Disillusion: African Americans, the United Nations, and the Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1947.¡± Diplomatic History 20 (1996): 531-63.

€ Boyle, Kevin. ¡°Stock©\taking on Human Rights: The World Conference on Human Rights, Vienna 1993¡±. Political Studies nr. 43 (1995): 79¨C95.

 € Buchanan, Tom. ¡°¡¯The Truth Will Set You Free¡¯: The Making of Amnesty International¡±. Journal of Contemporary History 37, 4 (2002): 575¨C594.

 € Burke, Roland. ¡°Challenging the universal declaration: Human rights and the UN advisory services program¡±. History Australia 9, 1 (2011): 27-42.

 € Cmiel, Kenneth. ¡°The Recent History of Human Rights.¡± The American Historical Review 109 (2004): 117-36.

€ Duranti, M. ¡°The Holocaust, the legacy of 1789 and the birth of international human rights law: revisiting the foundation myth¡±. Journal of Genocide Research 14, 2 (2012): 159-186.

€ Eckel, Jan. The International League for the Rights of Man, Amnesty International, and the Changing Fate of Human Rights Activism from the 1940s and through the 1970s. Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, Volume 4, Number 2, Summer 2013, pp. 183-214. (ny)

*Glendon, Mary Ann. A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. New York: Random House, 2001. S. 3-20.

* Heerten, Lasse. ¡°The Dystopia of Postcolonial Catastrophe: Self-Determination, the Biafran War of Secession, and the 1970s Human Rights Movement¡± i Eckel og Moyn: The Breakthrough, 2014. S. 15-32.

 * Jensen, Steven L.B. ¡°¡¯Universality should govern our small world of today¡¯ ¨C The Cold War and UN Human Rights Diplomacy, 1960¨C1968¡± i Rasmus Mariager, Karl Molin og Kjersti Brathagen (red.): Human Rights in Europe During the Cold War, 2014. s. 56-72.

* Keck, Margaret og Sikkink, Kathryn. Activists beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics. Ithaca: 1998. S. 1-38.

€ King, Jeff, and Alan J. T. Hobbins. ¡°Hammarskj?ld and Human Rights: The Deflation of the UN Human Rights Programme, 1953-1961.¡± Journal of the History of International Law 5 (2003): 337-86.

 € Mazower, Mark. ¡°The Strange Triumph of Human Rights, 1933-1950.¡± Historical Journal 47 (2004): 379-98.

 * Minde, H. ¡®The Making of an International Movement of Indigenous Peoples¡¯. Scandinavian Journal of History 21, 3 (1996): 221¨C246.

 * Moyn, Samuel. ¡°The Return of the Prodigal: The 1970s as a Turning Point in Human Rights History¡± i Eckel og Moyn: The Breakthrough, 2014. S. 1-14.

€ Pedersen, Susan. ¡°The Meaning of the Mandate System: An Argument¡±. Geschichte und Gesellschaft 32, 4 (2006): 560¨C582.

* Richardson-Little, Ned. ¡°Dictatorship and Dissent: Human Rights in East Germany in the 1970s¡± i Eckel og Moyn: The Breakthrough, 2014. S. 49-67.

 * Shimazu, Naoko. Japan, Race and Equality: The Racial Equality Proposal of 1919. London: Routledge, 1998. S. 1-37.

 € Steyn, Johan. ¡°Guantanamo Bay: The Legal Black Hole¡±. International and Comparative Law Quarterly 53, 1 (2004): 1-15.

* Vik, Hanne Hagtvedt. ¡°Internasjonale menneskerettigheter¡± i Hilde Henriksen Waage, Rolf Tamnes og Hanne Hagtvedt Vik: Krig og fred i den lange 20. ?rhundre. Oslo: Cappelen Damm, 2013. S. 259-284.

€ Vik, Hanne Hagtvedt. ¡°How Constitutional Concerns Framed the US Contribution to the International Human Rights Regime From Its Inception, 1947¨C53¡±. International History Review 34, 4 (2012): 887¨C909.

€ Vik, Hanne Hagtvedt. ¡°Taming the states: the American Law Institute and the ¡¯Statement of essential human rights¡¯¡±.  Journal of Global History 7, 3 (2012): 461¨C482.

Kilder:

1941 The Atlantic Charter

1942 The Declaration by the United Nations

1944 The Statement of Essential Human Rights

1945 The Charter of the United Nations

1948 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

1950 The European Convention on Human Rights

1965 UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

1966 UN Convention on Political and Civil Rights

1966 UN Convention on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

1968 The Teheran Declaration

1975 The Helsinki Accords

1984 UN Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhumane or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

1989 ILO Convention concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries

1993 The Vienna Declaration

2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Totalt: 1156 sider.

Anbefalt tilleggsliteratur:

Glendon, Mary Ann. A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. New York: Random House, 2001. S. 21¨C241.

€ Dembour, Marie-B¨¦n¨¦dicte. ¡°What Are Human Rights? Four Schools of Thought¡±. Human Rights Quarterly 32, 1 (2010): 1-20.

€ Haas, P. M. ¡°Introduction: epistemic communities and international policy coordination¡±. International Organization 46,1 (1992): 1¨C35.

Moyn, Samuel. The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History Cambridge. MA og London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010. (231 sider).

* Neff, Stephen C. ¡°A Short History of International Law.¡± i Malcom D. Evans (red.): International Law 2nd ed. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. S. 3-31. (tidligere obligatorisk pensum)

* Simmons, Beth. ¡°Humane Treatment. The Prevalence and Prevention of Torture¡± i Simmons: Mobilizing for Human Rights. International Law in Domestic Politics. Cambridge University Press, 2009. S. 256-306.(tidligere obligatorisk pensum)