Bridging the Local and the Global: Latin America and the Diffusion of Advances Related to Human Rights
by Collin Grimes
Chains of Justice: The Global Rise of State Institutions for Human Rights
Cardenas Sonia Chains of Justice: The Global Rise of State Institutions for Human Rights. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014.
Impunity, Human Rights, and Democracy: Chile and Argentina, 1990–2005
Wright Thomas C. Impunity, Human Rights, and Democracy: Chile and Argentina, 1990–2005. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014Recent decades have seen the emergence of scholarship on the worldwide diffusion of advances related to human rights. Scholars have written about the expanding legitimacy of human rights norms (Risse-Kappen, Ropp, and Sikkink, 1999) and examined the rise of norm-diffusing agents and nontraditional international actors (Keck and Sikkink, 1998). Other scholars (Burt, 2009; Pion-Berlin, 2004) have focused upon the events constituting what Kathryn Sikkink (2011: 5) calls the “justice cascade”—the increase in prosecutions of former heads of state, military personnel, and others for human rights violations beginning in the late twentieth century. By breaking from international-centric accounts and emphasizing the dual roles of domestic and global forces in shaping the spread of human rights advances, Sonia Cardenas’s Chains of Justice: The Global Rise of State Institutions for Human Rights and Thomas C. Wright’s Impunity, Human Rights, and Democracy: Chile and Argentina, 1990–2005, contribute meaningfully to this literature.
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