Bulletin n. 1/2015
June 2015
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Xinyuan Dai
    The Conditional Effects of International Human Rights Institutions
    in Human Rights Quarterly , vol. 36, number 3, august ,  2014 ,  569-589
    ABSTRACT: Much research on the effects of international human rights institutions (IHRIs) is fixated on whether IHRIs have—“on balance” or “systematically”—generated domestic effect. This essay highlights the path-dependent and conditional nature of domestic effects of IHRIs that the current scholarship has either willfully ignored or proven unable to take seriously. It focuses on causal mechanisms by which IHRIs, as codification of rights and as treaty organizations, impact domestic human rights practice by empowering domestic human rights stakeholders and thereby indirectly influencing states’ human rights practice. The essay sheds further light on the conditions under which IHRIs empower domestic stakeholders.
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