The Argumentative Power of International Law: Legal Rhetoric, Human Rights, and the Universal Periodic Review.
What makes a human rights argument effective? When challenging a state's human rights practices, actors can draw on a range of discursive options and frames. Current research on human rights argumentation highlights the strategic use of different rhetorical frames by actors to create political outco...
| Publicado en: | International Studies Quarterly Vol. 69; no. 2; pp. 1 - 18 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2025
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