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Aiding Recovery?: The Crisis of Aid in Chronic Political Emergencies
by Joanna Macrae  Publisher Comments In this important study of aid policy, Joanna Macrae argues that the disintegration of state authority and civil order has created acute problems in precisely those countries that need aid most. In a number of developing countries--including Cambodia...
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World in Crisis: The Politics of Survival at the End of the 20th Century
by Julia Groenewold Publisher Comments The tragedies of war, famine, disease and poverty continue to dominate our headlines. Faced with such tragedy, the politics, ethics, even the economics of humanitarian aid are becoming more complex. The role of relief agencies, the political will of the...
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Riots & Pogroms
by Paul R Brass Publisher Comments Riots and Pogroms presents comparative studies of public violence in the twentieth century in the United States, Russia, Germany, Israel, and India with a comparative, historical, and analytical introduction by the editor. The focus of the book is on the...
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The Economic Life of Refugees
by Karen Jacobsen Publisher Comments The ways in which refugees and other forced migrants pursue livelihoods has been curiously under-researched until relatively recently, and Karen Jacobsen has produced a useful primer drawing together well the disparate strands of work in this field. The...
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Yearbook of the European Convention on H
by Council Of Europe Publisher Comments This volume of the Yearbook of the European Convention on Human Rights, prepared by the Directorate of Human Rights of the Council of Europe relates to 1997. Its presentation follows that of previous volumes. Part one contains basic texts and information...
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Safe Third Countries: Extending the Eu Asylum and Immigration Policies to Central and Eastern Europe
by Sandra Lavenex Publisher Comments The refugee issue has always been controversial and Lavenex's analysis adds fuel to an already heated debate. She analyses the various bi- and multilateral processes by which the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEECs) are being gradually...
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The Liberation Debate: Rights at Issue
by Michael P T Leahy Publisher Comments Talking about rights invariably sparks controversy. As soon as the rights of a minority are at the centre of a discussion, it becomes very difficult to distinguish polemics from rational argument, and moral from political concerns. This collection of...
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Beyond Charity: International Cooperation & the Global Refugee Crisis
by Gil Loescher Publisher Comments With more than 18 million refugees worldwide, the refugee problem has fostered an intense debate regarding what political changes are necessary in the international system to provide effective solutions in the 1990s and beyond. In the past, refugees have...
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The Language of Empire
by Lila Rajiva Publisher Comments Under the rule of Saddam Hussein, the prison of Abu Ghraib (The Father of the Raven) was a place of ill omen, notorious for horrific suffering and torture and mass executions. After the invasion of Iraq, the U.S. military made Abu Ghraib one of the major...
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Taking Suffering Seriously: The Importance of Collective Human Rights
by William F Felice Book News Annotation A serious and well written examination probing the evolution and development of human rights concepts in international relations. Felice (international relations and global affairs, Eckerd College) points toward the tensions between individual and...
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International Yearbook of Environmental
by Henk Folmer Book News Annotation Synthesizes the year's literature on transportation and environmental policy, monitoring and enforcing environmental policy, economic aspects of environmental labelling, integrated assessment models for climate change control, issues and policies in...
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Safer Future: Reducing the Human Cost of Conflict
by Edmund Cairns Publisher Comments In 1995, over 36 million people suffered in 30 or more major armed conflicts throughout the world. The destruction of infrastructure and the environment, the diversion of resources from social welfare to military spending, and the cost of rehabilitation...
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Dealing with Human Rights: Asian and Western Views on the Value of Human Rights
by Martha Meijer Publisher Comments *Engaging essays by scholars and world leaders involved with human rights *Focuses on Asia and the Middle East Adopted by the UN more than fifty years ago, the practical application of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights remains far from ideal...
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The New Killing Fields: Massacre and the Politics of Intervention
by Nicolaus Mills Publisher Comments The New Killing Fields revisits Cambodia, Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and East Timor-sites of four of the worst instances of state-sponsored killing in the last half of the twentieth century-in order to reconsider the success and failure of U.S. and U.N...
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Human Rights Centered Development
by Maria Socorr Diokno Publisher Comments Human Rights Centered Development provides a framework for development policy, planning, budgeting, and programming that focuses on human rights. It contains human rights tools for analysis that may be applied to all aspects of the development process...
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Protection: An Alnap Guide for Humanitarian Agencies
by Hugo Slim Publisher Comments This guide gives essential advice and insights to humanitarian practitioners who are involved in providing safety and protecting vulnerable people in war and disaster. It provides a framework for responsibility and action, which helps clarify conceptual...
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Freedom in the World 2000 2001 Survey
by Adrian Karatnycky Book News Annotation The annual survey began in 1955 as the Balance Sheet of Freedom, and now reports on political rights and civil liberties in 192 countries and 17 related and disputed territories. The information comes from human rights activists, journalists, editors,...
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Human Rights from Exclusion to Inclusion: Principles and Practice: An Anthology from the Work of Theo Van Boven
by Fons Coomans Publisher Comments Professor Theo van Boven has made his mark in the field of human rights by writing a vast number of scholarly articles, reports, studies, congress papers and the like, covering many topics. Most of his work has been published in law journals, textbooks, "...
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Guests and Aliens
by Saskia Sassan Synopsis A penetrating and comprehensive analysis of the history of migration and refugees from a leading expert in the field....
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Patronage or Partnership: Local Capacity Building in Humanitarian Crises
by Ian Smillie Publisher Comments *A refreshing study of capacity building through various local perspectives *Includes studies from Mozambique, Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Haiti, and Guatemala Strengthening local capacity is more difficult than one might expect; there are...
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