The Frontiers of Human Rights
Author | : Nehal Bhuta |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2016 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780198769279 |
ISBN-13 | : 019876927X |
Rating | : 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: In an epoch of transnational armed conflict, global environmental harm, and rising inequality, the extraterritorial application of human rights law has become a pressing and controversial legal issue. The faultlines of the Westphalian order are the meridians along which the extraterritorial application of human rights run, as human rights are invoked to address a panoply of global-scale problems, from transborder environmental harm, to social and economic development and global inequality, to the repression of piracy in ungoverned spaces, and military occupation and armed conflict in the territory of a third state.