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Backlash against a Rules-Based International Human Rights Order? An Australian Perspective Jolyon Ford* 1 Introduction This article engag— es from an Australian perspectiv —with e the question of whether we can identify a recent populist political “backlash” within some Western democracies against the institutions, instruments and even the ideas of the multilateral (United Nations (‘UN’) tr and eaty -based) human rights system. An associated question concerns what the implications of any such phenomenon might be for the universalist human rights system (or at least Australia’s participation therein), and perhaps the implications for the wider global legal order of which the human rights project has, for decades now, been such an important part. Much depends, of course, on how one defines or marks a threshold for what constitutes backlash, and whether it describes an action, event, driver or other phenomenon (which may or may not have certain effects), or rather describes an outcome, effects, or impacts. A definition that was influential in the w - ork shops to which this Special Issue relates would distinguish mere discontent with an institution or status quo and instead cast backlash as involving ‘funda- mental resistance to and rejection of a system or institution
The Australian Year Book of International Law Online – Brill
Published: Dec 12, 2020
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