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The Universal Periodic Review is an intriguing and ambitious development in human rights monitoring which breaks new ground by engaging all 193 members of the United Nations. This book provides the first sustained analysis of the Review and explains how the Review functions within the architecture of the United Nations. It draws on socio-legal scholarship and the insights of human rights practitioners with direct experience of the Review in order to consider its regulatory power and its capacity to influence the behaviour of states. It also highlights the significance of the embodied features of the Review, with its cyclical and intricately managed interactive dialogues. Additionally, it discusses the rituals associated with the Review, examines the tendency of the Review towards hollow ritualism (which undermines its aspiration to address human rights violations comprehensively) and suggests how this ritualism might be overcome.

Human rights monitoring --- Human rights --- Monitoring, Human rights --- Human rights advocacy --- Monitoring --- Human rights monitoring - Congresses

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Droit et féminisme --- Droit international --- Feminist jurisprudence --- Feministische rechtswetenschap --- Femmes et droit --- Féminisme et droit --- Féminisme juridique --- Internationaal recht --- International law --- Feminist jurisprudence. --- Social aspects --- Aspect social --- Droit des gens --- Féminisme et droit --- Féminisme et droit. --- Sociological aspects. --- Aspect sociologique. --- Feminist theory --- Théorie féministe --- Feminism. --- Et le féminisme. --- Féminisme et droit. --- Théorie féministe --- Et le féminisme.

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Fault Lines of International Legitimacy deals with the following questions: What are the features and functions of legitimacy in the international realm? How does international legitimacy, as exemplified in particular by multilateral norms, organizations, and policies, change over time? What role does the international distribution of power and its evolution have in the establishment and transformation of legitimacy paradigms? To what extent do democratic values account for the growing importance of legitimacy and the increasing difficulty of achieving it at the international and the national level? One of the central messages of the book is that, although the search for international legitimacy is an elusive endeavor, there is no alternative to it if we want to respond to the intertwined demands of justice and security and make them an integral and strategic part of international relations.

International law. --- Legitimacy of governments. --- Government liability (International law) --- Cosmopolitanism. --- Political science --- Internationalism --- International claims --- International law --- Sovereignty --- Claims --- Governments, Legitimacy of --- Legitimacy (Constitutional law) --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Revolutions --- State, The --- General will --- Political stability --- Regime change --- Law of nations --- Nations, Law of --- Public international law --- Law --- General and Others

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This book offers a new approach to the extraordinary story of Timor-Leste and presents freedom in Timor-Leste as an accomplishment of networked governance, arguing that weak networks are capable of controlling strong tyrannies. The book is also a critique of realism as a theory of international affairs.

Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- East Asia --- Timor-Leste --- Politics and government. --- History --- Autonomy and independence movements. --- Politics and government --- International relations.

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International law can create great expectations in those seeking to rebuild societies that have been torn apart by conflict. For outsiders, international law can mandate or militate against intervention, bolstering or undermining the legitimacy of intervention. International legal principles promise equality, justice and human rights. Yet international law's promises are difficult to fulfil. This volume of essays investigates the phenomenon of post-conflict state-building and the engagement of international law in this enterprise. It draws together original essays by scholars and practitioners who consider the many roles international law can play in rehabilitating societies after conflict. The essays explore troubled zones across the world, from Afghanistan to Africa's Great Lakes region, and from Timor-Leste to the Balkans. They identify a range of possibilities for international law in tempering, regulating, legitimating or undermining efforts to rebuild post-conflict societies.

Postwar reconstruction --- Rule of law --- International and municipal law --- Post-conflict reconstruction --- Reconstruction, Postwar --- Law --- General and Others