European Populism and Human Rights: 130 (International Studies in Human Rights) - Hardcover

Jure Vidmar

9789004416000: European Populism and Human Rights: 130 (International Studies in Human Rights)

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ISBN 10: 9004416005 ISBN 13: 9789004416000

Publisher: Brill | Nijhoff, 2020

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This volume focuses on the recent challenge posed by right-wing populism to democratic consolidation in Europe and particularly explores the legal dimensions of this challenge. Part One attempts to define political populism and explains why it poses a challenge to democratic political order in Europe. Part Two examines the theoretical underpinnings of the populist challenge to human rights and democracy in Europe. Part Three applies this theory to concrete examples and considers case studies including an old EU Member State, two newer EU Member State and a non-EU Member State party to the ECHR. The aim is to examin the consequences of the present populist challenge in Europe that has been marked with excessively nationalist policies in some states party to the ECHR. It is explored how the Convention rights have been undermined, but also what the limitations are of the ECHR acting as a safety-net for democratic consolidation in Europe.

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Prof. Jure Vidmar is Chair of Public International Law at Maastricht University (The Netherlands). Prior to coming to Maastricht, he held teaching and research positions at the University of Oxford, Harvard Law School, University of Amsterdam and University of Nottingham. He is also affiliated with the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria. Jure has published widely in several areas of international law. His books include Democratic Statehood in International Law: The Emergence of New States in Post-Cold War Practice, Oxford, Hart, 2013, Runner-up for the Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship in 2014) and Hierarchy in International Law: The Place of Human Rights (Oxford, OUP, 2012, with Erika de Wet).

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