International Law and Human Rights: Diverging and Converging Histories

Quataert Jean H.
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Quataert Jean H.: Binghamton University, SUNY

New Global Studies, 2012, vol. 6, issue 3, 22

Abstract: This article explores ways to think about the historical intersections of international law and human rights visions and principles in a global context. It catalogues an intertwining of new historiographies, notably the recent convergence of research interests of historians and international lawyers that draws attention to non-linear analyses; the role of social movements in understanding developments in the law; and the importance of historical contexts for interpretation. It sketches one promising analytical framework to assess the dynamic interconnections of international law and human rights from the mid-nineteenth century through the formal creation of the human rights system under U.N. auspices between 1945 and 1949. It concludes with a case study of gender tensions in more recent human rights global politics to provide historically-specific examples of the new possibilities of bringing historical interpretations to the study of international law and human rights.

Keywords: international law; human rights; feminist theory; gender; international relations; Ottoman Empire; entanglement; United Nations; Commission on the Status of Women; postcolonial legal theory; Third World Approaches to International Law (IWAIL); Geneva Conventions; international humanitarian law; International Committee of the Red Cross; religious conservatism; global history; Islamic law; transnational feminism; the global women's human rights movements (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1515/1940-0004.1180

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