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Publications by Katrin Kinzelbach

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  • Journal article 20 Apr 2017

    An Analysis of China’s Statements on Human Rights at the UN

    By Katrin Kinzelbach
    In UN debates, China primarily contests implications of human rights rather than the norms themselves. This challenge is nonetheless serious as it facilitates a gradual erosion of established norms and instruments.…
  • Article 21 Nov 2016

    German Human Rights Policy in a Multipolar World

    By Katrin Kinzelbach, Garima Mohan
    Introduction Rising powers need not fear criticism of human rights abuses from Berlin, for trade trumps human rights in German foreign policy. This conventional wisdom is frequently invoked by human rights activists and journalists alike, but it is neither very informative nor entirely correct.…
  • Book review 01 Oct 2015

    Book Review: China’s Human Rights Lawyers

    By Katrin Kinzelbach
    Advocacy and Resistance, by Eva Pils At a time when China’s human rights lawyers are facing systematic repression, Eva Pils’s illuminating book provides a timely and engaging account of their work, fears and aspirations. The study, based on extensive face-to-face conversations with weiquan lawyers…
  • Book 03 Aug 2015

    The EU’s Human Rights Dialogue with China

    By Katrin Kinzelbach
    The European Union uses a confidential, institutionalized Dialogue to raise human rights concerns with China, but little is publicly known about its set-up, its substance, its development over time and its impact. This book provides the first detailed reconstruction and assessment of the EU’s…
  • Article 05 Mar 2015

    Democracy Promotion and China: Blocker or Bystander?

    By Katrin Kinzelbach, Dingding Chen
    The increasingly prosperous, mighty and assertive China is arguably the most powerful country blocking democracy today. In addition to withholding democratic rights of one-fifth of the world's population, authoritarian China represents an alternative development model that has gained significant…
  • Article 24 Apr 2013

    Chinas Menschenrechtspolitik in den UN

    By Katrin Kinzelbach
  • Book chapter 14 Mar 2013

    Resisting the Power of Human Rights: The People’s Republic of China

    By Katrin Kinzelbach
  • Commentary 16 Oct 2012

    Peking bewegt sich nur unter Druck

    By Katrin Kinzelbach
  • Journal article 30 Sep 2012

    Will China’s Rise Lead to a New Normative Order?

    By Katrin Kinzelbach
  • Commentary 07 Oct 2011

    Warum kuscht ihr so vor China?

    By Katrin Kinzelbach
    Seit der Vergabe des Friedensnobelpreises an den chinesischen Demokratieaktivisten Liu Xiaobo am 8. Oktober 2010 ist ein Jahr vergangen. Es war kein gutes Jahr für die Menschenrechte in China. Liu sitzt weiterhin für seine Mitautorschaft der Charta 08, einer politischen Reformagenda, in Haft. Und er…
  • Journal article 31 Mar 2011

    Talking Human Rights to China

    By Katrin Kinzelbach
    A human rights dialogue between the European Union and China has been going on since 1995. It runs on three tracks and includes a diplomatic level, expert seminars and technical co-operation projects. The three levels are supposed to interact with and benefit from each other. This article focuses on…

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