Human Rights

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Before Before

A Story of Discovery and Loss in Sierra Leone

By Betsy Small
Subjects: Law, Law and Society, African Studies, Political Science, Human Rights
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Reflecting on how building connections with others is necessary for humanity’s survival

Decisiveness and Fear of Disorder

Political Decision-Making in Times of Crisis

By Julius Maximilian Rogenhofer
Subjects: Political Science, Governance, Human Rights, Political History
Series: Configurations: Critical Studies of World Politics

Examines how the need to appear decisive becomes the paramount consideration for politicians in crisis situations

Presidential Accountability in Wartime

President Bush, the Treatment of Detainees, and the Laws of War

By Stuart Streichler
Subjects: Political Science, Human Rights, Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Political History

Examines how and why holding US presidents accountable for war crimes is an obligatory but impossible task in the American constitutional system

Technical Territories

Data, Subjects, and Spaces in Infrastructural Asia

By Luke Munn
Subjects: Political Science, Human Rights, Governance

Toward a geography of infrastructure

Book of the Disappeared

The Quest for Transnational Justice

Edited by Jennifer Heath & Ashraf Zahedi
Subjects: Political Science, Human Rights, Political History, International Relations
Series: Ethnic Conflict: Studies in Nationality, Race, and Culture

A unique and timely publication, for advocates, academics, and practitioners, providing invaluable insight into the plight of the disappeared

Peace, Preference, and Property

Return Migration after Violent Conflict

By Sandra F Joireman
Subjects: Law, International Law, Political Science, Human Rights, African Studies

A bottom-up analysis of what displaced people need rather than what states want

Translating Human Rights in Education

The Influence of Article 24 UN CRPD in Nigeria and Germany

By Julia Biermann
Subjects: Political Science, Human Rights, Education, Disability Studies

How the UN's right to inclusive education has resulted in school segregation for disabled students

Delegating Responsibility

International Cooperation on Migration in the European Union

By Nicholas R. Micinski
Subjects: Political Science, Human Rights, European Studies

A new theory of international cooperation on migration

The Art of Getting More Back in Diplomacy

Negotiation Lessons from North Korea, China, Libya, and the United Nations

By Eric N. Richardson
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Human Rights, Law, International Law

Why boardroom diplomacy fails

Elite-Led Mobilization and Gay Rights

Dispelling the Myth of Mass Opinion Backlash

By Benjamin George Bishin, Thomas Joseph Hayes, Matthew Benjamin Incantalupo, and Charles Anthony Smith
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Human Rights

Grassroots America supports LBGTQ rights even when leaders do not

Lawyers Beyond Borders

Advancing International Human Rights Through Local Laws and Courts

By Maria Armoudian
Subjects: Law, Political Science, International Relations, Human Rights

How American human rights lawyers fight for justice in U.S. Courts for international victims of violence

Explorations in Early Southeast Asian History

The Origins of Southeast Asian Statecraft

Edited by Kenneth Hall, John K. Whitmore, and John K. Whitmore
Subjects: Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, Political Science, Human Rights, History, European History
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

The Politics of Intimacy

Rethinking the End-of-Life Controversy

By Anna Durnova
Subjects: Political Science, Human Rights, Public Policy, International Relations
Series: Configurations: Critical Studies of World Politics

The intimacy of dying reveals the conflict between individuals and the institutions that rule their beliefs

Performance, Transparency, and the Cultures of Surveillance

By James M. Harding
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, Art, Art History, Political Science, Human Rights

Examines the pervasive presence of surveillance and how surveillance technologies alter the performance of everyday life

The Impossible Machine

A Genealogy of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission

By Adam Sitze
Subjects: Law, Law and Society, Political Science, Human Rights, Race and Politics, African Studies

A fresh, though counterintuitive, understanding of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s legal, political, and cultural heritage

Making Human

World Order and the Global Governance of Human Dignity

By Matthew S. Weinert
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Human Rights
Series: Configurations: Critical Studies of World Politics

An International Relations scholar examines the processes by which formerly denigrated peoples become recognized as human beings worthy of rights and dignity

Intellectual Empathy

Critical Thinking for Social Justice

By Maureen Linker
Subjects: Political Science, Human Rights, Race and Ethnicity, Philosophy

A guide for facilitating discussions about socially divisive issues for students, educators, business managers, and community leaders

Law, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Terrorism

By Roger Douglas
Subjects: Law, Political Science, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Judicial Politics, Human Rights, Political Behavior and Public Opinion

In democratic states, the courts can help safeguard civil liberties against excessive legislative and executive efforts to combat terrorism

Hybrid Justice

The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia

By John D. Ciorciari & Anne Heindel
Subjects: Political Science, Human Rights, Law
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

A definitive scholarly treatment of the ECCC from legal and political perspectives

The Impossible Machine

A Genealogy of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission

By Adam Sitze
Subjects: Law, Law and Society, Political Science, Human Rights, Race and Politics, African Studies

A fresh, though counterintuitive, understanding of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s legal, political, and cultural heritage

Understanding Torture

Law, Violence, and Political Identity

By John Parry
Subjects: Law, International Law, Law and Society, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Political Science, International Relations, Human Rights, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Philosophy

Legal prohibitions against torture cannot prevent state violence

Making Israel

Edited by Benny Morris
Subjects: Jewish Studies, Political Science, Human Rights, History, Middle Eastern History

Dying Inside

The HIV/AIDS Ward at Limestone Prison

By Benjamin Dov Fleury-Steiner
Subjects: Political Science, Public Policy, Health & Medicine, Health Policy & Management, Human Rights, Sociology
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

A graphic exposé of the inhumane treatment of HIV-positive inmates in U.S. prisons

Sacred Violence

Torture, Terror, and Sovereignty

By Paul W. Kahn
Subjects: Law, International Law, Law and Society, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Human Rights, International Relations
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Is torture the inevitable reaction to terrorism?

Independence and Democracy in Burma, 1945–1952

The Turbulent Years

By Balwant Singh
Subjects: History, European History, Political Science, Human Rights, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

The memoir of Balwant Singh, a civil servant under both the British and independent governments of Burma, provides a dramatic account of the turbulent years immediately following World War II.

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