The Conservative Human Rights Revolution: European Identity, Transnational Politics, and the Origins of the European Convention

The Conservative Human Rights Revolution: European Identity, Transnational Politics, and the Origins of the European Convention
ISBN-10
0199811385
ISBN-13
9780199811380
Category
History
Pages
507
Language
English
Published
2017
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Marco Duranti

Description

The Conservative Human Rights Revolution reconsiders the origins of the European human rights system, arguing that its conservative inventors, foremost among them Winston Churchill, conceived of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) as a means of realizing a controversial political agenda and advancing a Christian vision of European identity.

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