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Pacem in terris : are papal visits good news for human rights?

Endrich, Marek; Gutmann, Jerg - 2020 - This version: 07 July 2020

We analyze the effect of state visits by the Catholic pope on human rights in the host country to illustrate how a small theocracy like the Vatican can exert significant political influence in international politics. Our theoretical model of the strategic interaction between the Catholic Church...

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Precision-guided or blunt? : the effects of US economic sanctions on human rights

Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2016 - This version: 18 July 2016

We use endogenous treatment-regression models to estimate the causal average treatment effect of US economic sanctions on four types of human rights. In contrast to previous studies, we find no support for adverse effects of sanctions on economic rights, political and civil rights, and basic...

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Economic sanctions and human rights : quantifying the legal proportionality principle

Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian; … - 2018

The proportionality principle, as the cardinal principle of international law, includes a necessity and a proportionality test, both of which rest on empirical premises. The necessity test involves an assessment of whether a legal sanction is well-suited to achieve its objective. The...

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Elemente einer Theorie der Menschenrechte

Sen, Amartya - 2020

Wenn politisches Engagement und Einsatz für Menschenrechte nicht zu blindem Aktionismus führen sollen, ist es nötig …, gelegentlich innezuhalten und sich auf die Theorie der Menschenrechte zu besinnen. Menschenrechte, so Amartya Sen, sind erst einmal … eine Theorie der Menschenrechte leisten und was nützt sie in der Praxis? Sen entwirft in seinem Essay ein inklusives und …

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