Hak Asasi Manusia di Dunia yang Terglobalisasi: Paradoks Janji-Janji Kosong

Abstract

The authors examine the impact of the international  human  rights regime on governments' human rights practices. They propose an explanation that highlights a  "paradox of empty promises". Their core arguments are that the global institutionalization  of human  rights has created an international  context in which (1) governments  often ratify human  rights treaties as a matter of window dressing, radically decoupling policy from practice and at times exacerbating negative human rights practices, but (2) the emergent global legitimacy of human rights exerts independent global civil society effects that improve states' actual human  rights practices. The authors' statistical analyses on a comprehensive sample of government repression from 1976 to 1999 find support for their argument.