Par Engstrom

Institute of the Americas, University College London

Associate Professor in Human Rights

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London, WC1E 6BT

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1.

Effectiveness of International and Regional Human Rights Regimes

THE INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ENCYCLOPEDIA, Robert A. Denemark, ed., Blackwell Publishing, 2010
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 14 Feb 2012
Par Engstrom
Institute of the Americas, University College London
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compliance, enforcement, human rights, international institutions, international law, regimes, regional organizations, transnationalism, United Nations

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Transitional Justice and Ongoing Conflict

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 14 Feb 2012
Par Engstrom
Institute of the Americas, University College London
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Brazilian Foreign Policy and Human Rights: Change and Continuity Under Dilma

Critical Sociology, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 14 Feb 2012
Par Engstrom
Institute of the Americas, University College London
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Brazil, Dilma, foreign policy, human rights, Lula, rising power

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From Amnesty to Accountability: The Ebbs and Flows in the Search for Justice in Argentina

AMNESTY IN THE AGE OF HUMAN RIGHTS ACCOUNTABILITY: COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES, Leigh A. Payne and Francesca Lessa, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2012
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 29 Feb 2012
Par Engstrom and Gabriel Pereira
Institute of the Americas, University College London and University of Oxford
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Argentina, accountability, amnesty, human rights, transitional justice, human rights trials, mobilization

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Responsibility to Protect and the Coercive Enforcement of Human Rights

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 14 Feb 2012
Par Engstrom and Tom Pegram
Institute of the Americas, University College London and University College London
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The Future of Human Rights in a Global Order of Change and Continuity

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 06 Jun 2012
Par Engstrom
Institute of the Americas, University College London
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human rights, rising powers, non-Western world, intervention, R2P, global human rights regime

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Brazil: Human Rights in the Foreign Policy of an Emerging Power

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 15 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 16 Feb 2012
Par Engstrom
Institute of the Americas, University College London
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Transitional Justice, Democratization and the Politics of the Death Penalty in Argentina

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 24 Nov 2012
Par Engstrom
Institute of the Americas, University College London
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Argentina, Transitional Justice, Democratization, Death Penalty

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Strengthening the Impact of the Inter-American Human Rights System Through Scholarly Research

Inter-American Human Rights Network Reflective Report, 2016
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 16 Apr 2016
Par Engstrom, Courtney Hillebrecht, Alexandra Valeria Huneeus, Peter Low and Clara Lucia Sandoval
Institute of the Americas, University College London, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, University of Wisconsin Law School, University College London and School of Law and Human Rights Centre, University of Essex
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Inter-American Human Rights System, Human Rights, Latin America, International human rights law, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Inter-American Court of Human Rights

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Brazilian Post-Transitional Justice and the Inter-American Human Rights System

Latin American Centre Seminar Series St Antony’s College, Oxford, 14 February 2014
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 19 Feb 2014
Par Engstrom
Institute of the Americas, University College London
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Brazil, transitional justice, Inter-American Human Rights System, amnesty, accountability, Latin Americas

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The Inter-American Human Rights System: Notable Achievements and Enduring Challenges

Forthcoming in Contemporary Challenges for Understanding and Securing Human Rights in Practice edited by Corinne Lennox
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 12 Oct 2015
Par Engstrom
Institute of the Americas, University College London
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human rights, Latin America, Latin American politics, Inter-American Human Rights System, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

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Brazilian Foreign Policy and International Human Rights Promotion: Existing Tensions and Future Prospects

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 19 Jul 2014
Par Engstrom
Institute of the Americas, University College London
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Brazil, international human rights, foreign policy, human rights futures, rising powers

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Mobilising the Inter-American Human Rights System: Regional Litigation and Domestic Human Rights Impact in Latin America

Pre-copy edited version of chapter to be published in Par Engstrom (ed.). The Inter-American Human Rights System: Impact Beyond Compliance. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 26 Feb 2018
Par Engstrom and Peter Low
Institute of the Americas, University College London and University College London
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Inter-American Human Rights System, human rights, international human rights, international human rights law, Latin America, human rights compliance, litigation

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The Inter-American Human Rights System and U.S.-Latin America Relations

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 19 Jul 2014
Par Engstrom
Institute of the Americas, University College London
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Latin America, US foreign policy, Inter-American Human Rights System, human rights, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Inter-American Court of Human Rights

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A Special Relationship Gone Normal? Argentina and the Inter-American Human Rights System, 1979-2013

Pensamiento Propio, Vol. 38, June-December (2013)
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 20 Feb 2014
Par Engstrom
Institute of the Americas, University College London
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Argentina, Inter-American Human Rights System, Latin America, human rights

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Regional Human Rights Governance: The Case of the Inter-American Human Rights System

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 28 May 2014 Last Revised: 29 May 2014
Par Engstrom
Institute of the Americas, University College London
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human rights, Inter-American Human Rights System, regionalism, governance, Latin America

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Rethinking the Impact of the Inter-American Human Rights System

Pre-copy edited version of chapter to be published in Par Engstrom (ed.). The Inter-American Human Rights System: Impact Beyond Compliance. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 26 Feb 2018
Par Engstrom
Institute of the Americas, University College London
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Inter-American Human Rights System, human rights, international human rights, international human rights law, Latin America, human rights compliance

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Reconceitualizando O Impacto Do Sistema Interamericano De Direitos Humanos (Reconceptualising the Impact of the Inter-American Human Rights System)

Revista Direito e Práxis, vol. 2, no. 8 (2017)
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 24 Jul 2017
Par Engstrom
Institute of the Americas, University College London
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Inter-American Human Rights System, Latin America, human rights impact, compliance, international human rights law

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Chile and the Inter-American Human Rights System: Past, Present and Future

Karinna Fernández, Christian Peña, and Sebastián Smart (eds.), Chile and the Inter-American Human Rights System, London: School of Advanced Study (2017)
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 21 Jul 2017
Par Engstrom
Institute of the Americas, University College London
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Chile, human rights, Inter-American Human Rights System

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Os Direitos Humanos na Politica Externa Brasileira, 2008-2015 (Brazilian Foreign Policy and Human Rights, 2008-2015)

A politica externa brasileira de 2008 a 2015, Dinte-IPEA (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 26 Jul 2017
Par Engstrom and Guilherme France
Institute of the Americas, University College London and Independent
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Brazil, human rights, foreign policy, international human rights law

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Review - Alison J. Bruey, Bread, Justice, and Liberty: Grassroots Activism and Human Rights in Pinochet's Chile

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51, Issue 4, November 2019, pp. 966-969
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 03 Dec 2019
Par Engstrom
Institute of the Americas, University College London
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Chile, human rights, social mobilisation, socio-economic rights, human rights history

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Between Hope and Despair: Progress and Resilience in the Inter-American Human Rights System

Contesse, Jorge & Huneeus, Alexandra, 'Introduction to the Symposium on the American Convention on Human Rights and its New Interlocutors', AJIL Unbound. 113. 351-354, 2019, DOI: 10.1017/aju.2019.66
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 25 Nov 2019
Par Engstrom
Institute of the Americas, University College London
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Inter-American Human Rights System, Human Rights, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Inter-American Court of Human Rights

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Disappearances in the Post-Transition Era in Latin America; Karina Ansolabehere, Barbara A. Frey and Leigh A. Payne (Editors); the British Academy/oxford University Press; 2021

International Affairs [Chatham House] (2022)
Number of pages: 2 Posted: 20 Jul 2022
Par Engstrom
Institute of the Americas, University College London
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human rights, Mexico, Latin America, disappearances, post-transition, transitional justice

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Torture Prevention in Latin America: Rights of Persons Deprived of Liberty and the Role of National Preventive Mechanisms

Forthcoming, Human Rights Behind Bars: Tracing vulnerability in prison populations from a multidisciplinary perspective. Edited by Clara Burbano Herrera and Yves Haeck, Ghent University
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 05 Dec 2022
Par Engstrom and Tom Pegram
Institute of the Americas, University College London and University College London
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Latin America, torture prevention, OPCAT, National Preventive Mechanisms

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Renewing the Fight Against Torture: Challenges and Lessons Learned from Latin America

"Renewing the Fight Against Torture: Challenges and Lessons Learned from Latin America", in Respondiendo a la tortura : perspectivas latinoamericanas un desafío global, Fabio de Sa e Silva, Par Engstrom, Verónica Hinestroza Arenas (editores), 2020
Posted: 27 May 2020
Fabio de Sa e Silva, Par Engstrom and Verónica Hinestroza-Arenas
University of Oklahoma, College of International Studies, Department of International & Area Studies, Institute of the Americas, University College London and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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human rights, torture prevention, torture, Latin America

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The Situation of Rule of Law and Human Rights in Cuba and Venezuela and EU Engagement

Study requested by the European Parliament's Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI), 2018
Posted: 19 Jan 2019
Par Engstrom
Institute of the Americas, University College London

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Cuba, Venezuela, Human Rights, Rule of Law, European Union

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Institutional Change and the Inter-American Human Rights System

The International Journal of Human Rights, vol. 22, no. 9, 2018
Posted: 17 Nov 2018
Par Engstrom and Courtney Hillebrecht
Institute of the Americas, University College London and University of Nebraska at Lincoln

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Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Institutional Change, International Courts, International Norms, Latin America

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Torture Incidence and Prevention in Chile: 1985-2014

Forthcoming in R. Carver and L. Handley (eds), Does Torture Prevention Work? (Liverpool University Press, 2016)
Posted: 22 Apr 2016
Karinna Fernandez Neira and Par Engstrom
Independent and Institute of the Americas, University College London

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Chile, human rights, torture, torture prevention