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

Duranti, Marco

 
9780197532348: The Conservative Human Rights Revolution: European Identity, Transnational Politics, and the Origins of the European Convention

Synopsis

This book reconsiders the origins of the European human rights system, arguing that its conservative inventors conceived of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) as a means of realizing a controversial political agenda and advancing a Christian vision of European identity.

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About the Author

Marco Duranti is Senior Lecturer in Modern European and International History at the University of Sydney. He has been a Fulbright Scholar at the European University Institute, a Fox Fellow at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Max Planck Research Group on History and Memory at the University of Konstanz.

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