Conflict and Compliance: State Responses to International Human Rights Pressure

by Sonia Cardenas

Book Overview

International human rights pressure has been applied to numerous states with varying results. In Conflict and Compliance, Sonia Cardenas examines responses to such pressure and challenges conventional views of the reasons states do--or do not--comply with international law. Data from disparate bodies of research suggest that more pressure to comply with human rights standards is not necessarily more effective and that international policies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812221303
• ISBN13: 9780812221305
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"