This book provides a novel account of the role of human rights discourse in the US foreign policy. The book analyses the US State Departments Annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices as a means to monopolise and, more importantly, legitimise a specific framing of the hum…
"This book offers valuable insights into the development of human rights norms and mechanisms in ASEAN, stressing the role of regional non-state actors, who are often neglected in the literature on ASEAN regionalism. It makes an important contribution to the growing complexity o…
This book explains how the ASEAN regional human rights body (AICHR) was created and why it functioned with a promotional rather than protection mandate. It does this by positioning itself within a sizable literature on norm diffusion, and introduces the concept of "Norm Interpre…