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Reclaiming Human Rights in a Changing World Order INSIGHTS Critical Thinking on International Affairs Providing new perspectives and knowledge on an increasingly complex, uncertain, and interconnected world. The Chatham House Insights Series Series Editor: Caroline Soper The Insights series provides new perspectives on and knowledge about an increasingly complex, uncertain, and interconnected world. Concise, lively, and authorita- tive, these books explore, through dif er ent modes of interpretation, a wide range of country, regional, and international developments, all within a global context. Fo- cusing on topical issues in key policy areas, such as health, security, economics, law, and the environment, volumes in the series w ill be written accessibly by leading experts— both academic and practitioner—to anticipate trends and illuminate new ideas and thinking. 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Published or forthcoming titles: David Lubin, Dance of the Trillions: Developing Countries and Global Finance (2018) Keir Giles, Moscow Rules: What Drives Rus sia to Confront the West (2019) Nigel Gould-D avies, Tectonic Politics: Global Po liti cal Risk in an Age of Transformation (2019) Jamie Gaskarth, Secrets and Spies: UK Intelligence Accountability a fter Iraq and Snowden (2020) Sten Rynning, Olivier Schmitt, and Amelie Theussen (eds.), War Time: Temporality and the Decline of Western Military Power (2021) Kerstin Bree Carlson, The Justice Laboratory: International Law in Africa (2022) Christopher Sabatini (ed.), Reclaiming H uman Rights in a Changing World Order (2022) Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Afairs, is a world- leading policy institute based in London. Its mission is to help governments and socie ties build a sustainably secure, prosperous, and just world. Chatham House does not express opinions of its own. The opinions expressed in this publication are the responsibility of the author(s). reclaiming Human rights in a changing World Order CHRISTOPHER SABATINI Brookings Institution Press Washington, D.C. Chatham House The Royal Institute of International Affairs London Copyright © 2023 THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION 1775 Mas sa chu setts Ave nue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036 www . brookings . edu All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the Brookings Institution Press. The Brookings Institution is a private nonprofit organ ization devoted to research, education, and publication on impor tant issues of domestic and foreign policy. Its principal purpose is to bring the highest quality in de pen dent research and analy sis to bear on current and emerging policy prob lems. Interpretations or conclusions in Brookings publications should be understood to be solely t hose of the authors. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for. ISBN 978-0-8157-3975-3 (pbk) ISBN 978-0-8157-3976-0 (ebook) 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Typeset in Adobe Garamond Composition by Westchester Publishing Ser vices Contents Foreword xi Acknowle dgments xvii Acronyms and Abbreviations xxi Introduction Christopher Sabatini 1 PART I Geopolitics one Human Rights: From Evolution to Devolution? Christopher Sabatini 11 two Positioning H uman Rights in China- U.S. Relations Rosemary Foot 31 three Crossing the “Redline”: Engaging Rus sia in the Multilateral Order Nandini Ramanujam and Vishakha Wijenayake 50 four Same Blueprint, New Norms: Regional Organ izations, Illiberalism, and the Rise of Contested Global Governance Alexander Cooley 77 viii Contents five Human Rights, Pandemics, and the Infrastructure of H uman Rights Institutions Rana Moustafa 93 PART II Domestic Politics and International Human Rights Policies six Protecting H uman Rights from Exclusionary Pop u lism Gerald Neuman 123 seven Evangelicals and H uman Rights Melani McAlister 149 PART III New Technologies and H uman Rights eight Technical Standards and H uman Rights: The Case of New IP Emily Taylor, Kate Jones, and Carolina Caeiro 185 nine Autonomous Weapon Systems: Accountability Gaps and Racial Oppression Thompson Chengeta 216 PART IV Regional Human Rights Systems ten Pop u lism and the Protection of Human Rights in Eu rope: The Challenge from Within Urfan Khaliq 237 Contents ix eleven Polishing the Crown Jewel of the Western Hemi sphere: The Inter- American Commission on H uman Rights Santiago Canton and Angelita Baeyens 257 twelve Caught between Geopolitics, Demo cratic Regression, and the “Sovereign Backlash”: The African H uman Rights System Solomon Dersso 281 thirteen Human Rights and Geopolitics in the Middle East, North Africa, and Af ghan i stan Asli Ü. Bâli 308 Conclusions: Reforming, Rebuilding, Modernizing the International H uman Rights System Ana Lankes and Christopher Sabatini 333 Contributors 353 Index 357