Europe's integration and its broader postwar reconstruction, some scholars now claim, were conservative projects, geared toward bolstering traditional social, cultural, and economic hierarchies...The most ambitious and powerful study in this new wave of scholarship is Marco Duranti's The Conservative Human Rights Revolution. Duranti's sweeping political and institutional history reconstructs a transnational movement of conservative politicians and thinkers, who established the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in the aftermath of the Second World War.
Marco Duranti is Senior Lecturer in Modern European and International History at the University of Sydney. He has been a Fulbright Scholar at the European University Institute, a Fox Fellow at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Max Planck Research Group on History and Memory at the University of Konstanz.