The Chechen Exception: Rethinking Russia's Human Rights Policy
| Autor: | Eric Heinze, Douglas A. Borer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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Human rights
Linguistic rights media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Authoritarianism Fundamental rights Context (language use) 050601 international relations language.human_language Right to property 0506 political science International human rights law Political science Law Political Science and International Relations 050602 political science & public administration language Chechen media_common |
| Zdroj: | Politics. 22:86-94 |
| ISSN: | 1467-9256 0263-3957 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/1467-9256.00163 |
| Popis: | Orthodox interpretations of human rights policies and practices in post-Soviet Russia are often construed by external critics through a historicist lens of tsarist and Soviet-era authoritarianism. Contemporary Russia's adherence to emerging international human rights norms is commonly judged in sole reference to its human rights disaster in Chechnya. In this article, we contest the notion that human rights abuses in Chechnya fully illustrate Russia's stance on international human rights. We suggest that Chechnya is the exception in the post-Soviet era, and that Russia has increasingly brought its human rights standards in line with the West. We use a historical comparative context as well as Russia's discursive response to NATO's intervention in Kosovo and its UN Security Council voting record as empirical evidence for our argument. 1 |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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