The Conservative Human Rights Revolution: European Identity, Transnational Politics, and the Origins of the European Convention

by Marco Duranti

Book Overview

The European Court of Human Rights has long held unparalleled sway over questions of human rights violations across continental Europe, Britain, and beyond. Both its supporters and detractors accept the common view that the European human rights system was originally devised as a means of containing communism and fascism after World War II.

In The Conservative Human Rights Revolution, Marco Duranti radically reinterprets the origins of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197532349
• ISBN13: 9780197532348
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"