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Socializing States: Promoting Human Rights through International Law
Author(s): Ryan Goodman (Author), Derek Jinks (Author)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication Date: September 11, 2013
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 019930100X
- ISBN-13: 9780199301003
Book Description
While acculturation is not necessarily the most important or most desirable approach to promoting human rights, a better understanding of all three mechanisms is a necessary first step in the development of an integrated theory of international law’s influence. Socializing States provides the critical framework to improve our understanding of how norms operate in international society, and thereby improve the capacity of global and domestic institutions to build cultures of human rights,
Editorial Reviews
Review
“In this sophisticated study, Goodman and Jinks argue that international law affects states primarily through a process of socialization, in which state officials and other actors take on the beliefs and norms of others in their surrounding environment… The authors usefully summarize empirical studies that demonstrate that states have a tendency to imitate best practices in areas such as education, market liberalization, the environment, arms control, science policy, and human rights.” —Foreign Affairs
“In Socializing States: Promoting Human Rights Through International Law, Professors Ryan Goodman and Derek Jinks have made a very important contribution to the growing body of scholarship at the intersection between international law and international relations. Indeed, the American Society of International Law recognized the book by awarding it the 2014 Certificate of Merit for a Preeminent Contribution to Creative Scholarship.” -David Sloss, The American Journal of International Law
About the Author
DJ: Professor of Law, University of Texas
