Books written by Julie Mertus

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  Human Rights Matters: Local Politics and National Human Rights Institutions

  Examines the effectiveness of national human rights institutions in promoting and protecting human rights through a series of comparative case studies.

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  Open Wounds: Human Rights Abuses in Kosovo

  Of Recent Incidents

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  Kosovo: How Myths and Truths Started a War

  Laura Silber and Allan Little , The Death of Yugoslavia ( London : Penguin Books , BBC Books , 1995 ) , 33–34 . 8. An English version of the Memorandum can be found in Kosta Mihailović and Vasilije Krestić , Memorandum of the Serbian ...

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  The United Nations and Human Rights: A Guide for a New Era

  A superb addition to any human rights syllabus, this book maintains its position as essential reading for students and practitioners of human rights, international relations and international law.

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  Human Rights and Conflict: Exploring the Links Between Rights, Law, and Peacebuilding

  'Human rights and conflict' is divided into three parts, each capturing the role played by human rights at a different stage in the conflict cycle.

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  Kosovo: How Myths and Truths Started a War

  Explores the foundations of conflict in Kosovo, charging that the international community's failure to support the Albanians in their initial passive resistance to Serbian repression led to violence.

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  The United Nations and Human Rights: A Guide for a New Era

  This book is designed to provide a framework for understanding contemporary United Nations (UN) human rights machinery.

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  Human Rights and Conflict: Exploring the Links Between Rights, Law, and Peacebuilding

  'Human rights and conflict' is divided into three parts, each capturing the role played by human rights at a different stage in the conflict cycle.

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  The Suitcase: Refugee Voices from Bosnia and Croatia

  The stories of the refugees from the war in Bosnia.

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  Human Rights Matters: Local Politics and National Human Rights Institutions

  Among human rights advocates, dominant wisdom holds that the promotion and protection of human rights relies not on international efforts, but on domestic action. International institutions may capture news headlines,...

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  Bait and Switch: Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy

  Although our era is marked by human rights rhetoric, human wrongs continue to be committed with impunity, and the idea of human rights is becoming impoverished.