Books of Political Science / Human Rights
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Women, Armed Conflict, and International Law
By Michelle J. Jarvis, Judith GardamThe role that gender plays in determining the experience of those caught up in armed conflict has long been overlooked. Moreover, the extent to which gender influences the international legal...
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Terrorism, Drugs, International Law, and the Protection of Human Liberty: A Comparative Study of International Law, Its Nature, Role, and...
By Christopher L. BlakesleyLinking related concerns that are often treated in disparate areas of international law and practice, this ground-breaking book clearly reveals the interconnectedness in today's world of drug trafficking and political...
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The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution
By Robert Doyle BullardIn 1994, Sierra Club Books was proud to publish Dr. Robert D. Bullard's Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color, a collection of essays contributed by some of the...
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The Human Rights of Migrants
By International Organization for Migration, Reginald Thomas AppleyardThe Universal Declaration of Human Rights established that human rights are "universal, indivisible and inalienable." However, with international migration at an all time high, government officials, policy makers, NGOs, researchers...
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State Crime: Governments, Violence and Corruption
By Tony Ward, Penny GreenWhat is state crime? This book sets out the parameters of state crime and highlights the complex issues involved. The authors provide a clear chapter-by -chapter assessment of state violence,...
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Protection of the Heritage of Indigenous People
By Erica-Irene A. DaesThis publication provides a basis for appropriate standard-setting by international bodies as well as a number of specific institutional measures to provide indigenous peoples with some immediate relief from the...
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馬克思主義國際關係理論及其當代價值
By 鈕菊生本書依據馬克思主義經典文獻和相關論述，全面解析論述馬克思主義國際關係理論的概念、特質與前景、主要內涵、基本特徵、當代價值和發展前景，對馬克思主義經典作家分析國際關係問題並提出相應對策的重要思想進行論析，對於認識當代國際關係的實質、規律和趨勢，應對國際局勢和處理國際事務，推動國際關係優化發展的思想與實踐，具有較好的指導意義。
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Human Rights in Political Transitions: Gettysburg to Bosnia
By Robert Post, Carla Alison HesseRe-inventing the spy story for the 21st Century.John Le Carre meets Jason Bourne!Daniel Marchant, a suspended MI6 officer, is running the London Marathon. He is also running out of time....
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The Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples
By Cynthia Price CohenHuman Rights of Indigenous Peoples approaches this complex subject from two directions: first, the existing framework of international law, both actual and potential, as embodied in the relevant provisions of...
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"Leave None to Tell the Story": Genocide in Rwanda
By Human Rights Watch, Alison Liebhafsky Des ForgesIn the thirteen weeks after April 6, 1994, at least half a million people perished in the Rwandan genocide, perhaps as many as three quarters of the Tutsi population. At...
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Racial Segregation and the Origins of Apartheid in South Africa, 1919–36
By Saul DubowThis analysis of the historical development of racial segregation in South Africa between the World War I and II casts light on the period immediately before the advent of modern-day...
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The Law of Privacy and the Media: Second Cumulative Supplement
By Michael Tugendhat, Iain ChristieThis second supplement to The Law of Privacy and the Media covers all of the key developments in the subject up to August 2005. Cases analysed include Naomi Campbell v...
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Protocol No. 12 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
By Council of EuropeThis protocol takes further steps to promote equality of all persons through the collective enforcement of a general prohibition of discrimination by means of the Convention for the Protection of...
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Crossing Borders
By Rigoberta MenchuThe second installment of the life of the Nobel Peace prize-winning activist. Rigoberta Menchu is a worldwide symbol of courage in the continuing fight of indigenous peoples for justice. The...
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The Leading Rogue State: The United States and Human Rights
By Judith R. BlauMost Americans would be surprised to learn that their government has declined to join most other nations in UN treaties addressing inadequate housing, poverty, children's rights, health care, racial discrimination,...
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Human Rights in Eastern Europe
By Istvan S. PoganyThe transformation process in Central and Eastern Europe has been concerned with the twin issues of economic restructing, leading to the creation of market economies, and democratization. However, the problems...
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Looking Ahead to the Medvedev Administration: Hearing Before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, One Hundred Tenth Congress,...
By United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in EuropeLooking Ahead to the Medvedev Administration: Hearing Before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, One Hundred Tenth Congress,...
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Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo
By Murat Kurnaz, Helmut KuhnIn October 2001, nineteen-year-old Murat Kurnaz traveled to Pakistan to visit a madrassa. During a security check a few weeks after his arrival, he was arrested without explanation and for...
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Sacred Violence: Torture, Terror, and Sovereignty
By Paul W. KahnIn Sacred Violence, the distinguished political and legal theorist Paul W. Kahn investigates the reasons for the resort to violence characteristic of premodern states. In a startling argument, he contends...
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The Responsibility of States for International Crimes
By Nina H. B. JørgensenThe Responsibility of States for International Crimes focuses on the concept of state responsibility for international crimes which gained support following the First World War, but was pushed into the...