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Human Rights: Beyond the Liberal Vision
by Judith Blau  Publisher Comments This book analyzes the complex relationship between human rights and liberalism as two different worldviews, and how American liberalism impedes the recognition of human rights. In order to achieve democratic, equitable, and sustainable societies, people...
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Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur
by Ben Kiernan Publisher Comments For thirty years Ben Kiernan has been deeply involved in the study of genocide and crimes against humanity. He has played a key role in unearthing confidential documentation of the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge. His writings have transformed...
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Local Action/Global Change: A Handbook on Women's Rights
by Ja Mertus Publisher Comments This handbook on women's human rights is an integrated set of fourteen teaching and learning units. Together, they are designed to identify key issues in women's human rights, define concepts, outline different methodologies for achieving women's human...
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Keepers of the Flame: Understanding Amnesty International
by Stephen Hopgood Publisher Comments The first in-depth and behind-the-scenes look at what it is like to work inside the highly influential human-rights organization Amnesty International....
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Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry (University Center for Human Values)
by Michael Ignatieff Publisher Comments Michael Ignatieff draws on his extensive experience as a writer and commentator on world affairs to present a penetrating account of the successes, failures, and prospects of the human rights revolution. Since the United Nations adopted the Universal...
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Complicity with Evil: The United Nations in the Age of Modern Genocide
by Adam Lebor Publisher Comments A seasoned foreign correspondent shows how the United Nations values its own neutrality and interests above its founding mission of protecting humanity, with predictably tragic consequences....
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Stolen Youth: The Politics of Israel's Detention of Palestinian Children
by Catherine Cook Publisher Comments The first book to explore Israel's incarceration of Palestinian children....
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Beyond the Law: The Bush Administration's Unlawful Responses in the "War" on Terror
by Jordan J Paust Publisher Comments This book provides a detailed exposition of violations of international law authorized and abetted by secret memos, authorizations, and orders of the Bush administration. In particular, it describes why several executive claims were in error, what...
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Globalization Challenged: Conviction, Conflict, Community (Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures)
by George Rupp Publisher Comments In "Globalization Challenged," George Rupp, president of the International Rescue Committee, outlines the steps necessary to engage the contemporary conflict between traditional religious belief and Western secularism. <P>According to Rupp, the key...
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The Politics of Past Evil: Religion, Reconciliation, and the Dilemmas of Transitional Justice
by Daniel Philpott Publisher Comments Explores the concept of reconciliation--a concept whose meaning philosophers and social scientists now debate in the context of political transitions all over the world--with the recognition that participants' theological commitments must become part of...
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In the Name of Democracy: American War Crimes in Iraq and Beyond
by Jeremy Brecher Publisher Comments A riveting documentary anthology that examines a deeply disturbing question: Is the United States guilty of war crimes in Iraq? Until recently, the possibility that the United States was responsible for war crimes seemed unthinkable to most Americans...
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Freedom on Fire: Human Rights Wars and Americaus Response
by John Shattuck Publisher Comments As the chief human rights official of the Clinton Administration, John Shattuck faced far-flung challenges. Disasters were exploding simultaneously--genocide in Rwanda and Bosnia, murder and atrocities in Haiti, repression in China, brutal ethnic wars...
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New Killing Fields : Massacre and the Poitics of Intervention (02 Edition)
by Nicolaus Mills Publisher Comments The question of the responsibility inherent in the unrivaled might of the U.S. military is one that continues to take up headlines across the globe. This award-winning group of reporters and scholars, including, among others, David Rieff, Peter Maass...
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Humn Rights Search Commun PB
by Rhoda E Howard Publisher Comments Some critics contend that the concept of universal human rights reflects the West’s anticommunitarian, self-centered individualism, which disproportionately focuses on individual autonomy. In this book Rhoda Howard-Hassmann refutes this claim...
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Human Rights (Key Concepts)
by Michael Freeman Publisher Comments Human Rights is an introductory text that is both innovative and challenging. It invites students to think conceptually about one of the most important and influential political concepts of our time. In this unique interdisciplinary approach, Michael...
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Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism
by David Cole Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-293) and index....
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Why Not Kill Them All? (06 Edition)
by Chirot Synopsis ""Why Not Kill Them All?" is an excellent book that adopts a fresh and complex approach to the problem of mass killings. In a study that ranges widely around the globe and through history, Chirot and McCauley demonstrate that genocides and other large...
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Evaluating International Humanitarian Action: Reflection from Practitioners
by Adrian Wood Publisher Comments With the number of violent conflicts within countries increasing all the time, as well as other forms of natural and man-made complex emergencies, humanitarian intervention has become a much more frequent form of development assistance. There has also...
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Enemy Combatant : My Imprisonment At Guantanamo, Bagram, and Kandahar (06 Edition)
by Moazzam Begg Publisher Comments The "shocking firsthand account" (Chicago Sun-Times) of one man's years inside the notorious American prison—and his Kafkaesque struggle to clear his name. When Enemy Combatant was first published in the United States in hardcover in 2006 it...
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Sex Rights: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2002
by Nicholas Bamforth Publisher Comments Discrimination due to gender and sexual orientation tends nowadays to be prohibited under international human rights instruments, as well as under the national laws of many countries that express their commitment to defending human rights. Nonetheless...
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