Palgrave just published an edited volume on media capture – i.e., government attempts to control the mass media – in Latin America and Africa. Calle Höglund and I co-wrote a chapter on how the Museveni government seeks to control the media in Uganda and how the so-called media fraternity – a network of journalist groups and media organisations – are mobilising to prevent media capture.
Category: mänskliga rättigheter
As readers of this blog will know, I’ve long been puzzled by the Nordic states’ commitment to international human rights norms. In this new article, I analyse the decisions to incorporate the European Convention on Human Rights in Denmark and Sweden in the early 1990s. My argument is that had less to do with the winds of change sweeping across Europe at the time and more to do with competition in the domestic party political constellation than has been previously acknowledged.
Why have civil society groups in Scandinavia increasingly turned to legal mobilization in recent decades? In a recent article, Malcolm Langford (University of Oslo), Mikael Rask Madsen (University of Copenhagen) and I seek to account for how various actors in civil society in Denmark, Norway and Sweden have pursued societal change by using courts as political arenas.
Just nu skriver jag på en artikel om varför Sverige och Danmark beslöt sig för att inkorporera EKMR i början av 1990-talet. Där fokuserar jag på det politiska spelet: Hur Socialdemokratiet i Danmark och Moderaterna i Sverige intar rollen av normentreprenör. Men man skulle också kunna skriva historien ur juristprofessionernas perspektiv, för det tycks ha pågått en febril aktivitet bland nordiska domare, advokater, rättsvetare och statstjänstemän från ca 1987 och framåt.
I’ve published a book chapter on the democracy-promotion aim in Swedish development aid policy. In the chapter, I analyze how Swedish policymakers have framed the aims and strategies of democracy promotion in ODA from the 1960s to the 2010s.