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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: 7 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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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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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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