The Anatomy of China’s Human Rights Regime: A Behaviourally Underpinned Analytical and Evaluative Account
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Roda Mushkat
Professor of International Law at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University and Honorary Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong
Abstract
The Chinese politico-legal system, including the human rights component thereof, has long been the subject of intense academic and policy interest, despite its increasingly ‘soft’ features. A multiyear economic expansion and active participation in globalization processes have been accompanied by some loosening of governmental control mechanisms but, by Western standards, this has been a distinctly slow journey. The acquisition of power by this rapidly rising international player has also given rise to concerns about the broader implications of a combination of substantial State capabilities and an ambivalent posture towards human rights, as widely conceived. In addition to traditional perspectives, the issue has been addressed by resorting to social science-type methodological tools and employing them in order to gain a better understanding of the workings of a rule-based regime that straddles domestic and global territory. Considerable progress has been made, yet the task has not been approached exhaustively and accumulation of knowledge has been an intermittent affair. An elaborate and structured literature review is undertaken here for the purpose of identifying gaps on this specific front and concrete strategies to narrow them materially.
About the author
Professor of International Law at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University and Honorary Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong
© 2017 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Table of Contents
- Articles
- The Anatomy of China’s Human Rights Regime: A Behaviourally Underpinned Analytical and Evaluative Account
- Notes
- Judges and Policy Making Authority in the United States and the European Union
- Are Austrian Courts Obliged to Consider the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights when Interpreting the ECHR?
- Developments Austria
- Electronic Monitoring of Sexual Offenders: No Violation of the Principle of Equal Treatment
- European Fiscal Compact is Held to be in Accordance with the Constitution
- Assisted Reproduction in the Shadow of the Past
- Developments CEE
- Hungarian Constitutional Court: The Hungarian System of Transfer of Cases
- Constitutional Court of Georgia: Deprivation of Driving License – a Sanction or a Cause of Discrimination?
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Table of Contents
- Articles
- The Anatomy of China’s Human Rights Regime: A Behaviourally Underpinned Analytical and Evaluative Account
- Notes
- Judges and Policy Making Authority in the United States and the European Union
- Are Austrian Courts Obliged to Consider the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights when Interpreting the ECHR?
- Developments Austria
- Electronic Monitoring of Sexual Offenders: No Violation of the Principle of Equal Treatment
- European Fiscal Compact is Held to be in Accordance with the Constitution
- Assisted Reproduction in the Shadow of the Past
- Developments CEE
- Hungarian Constitutional Court: The Hungarian System of Transfer of Cases
- Constitutional Court of Georgia: Deprivation of Driving License – a Sanction or a Cause of Discrimination?
