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Book SynopsisThe Research Handbook of Children and Armed Conflict adeptly explores children’s lived realities of armed conflict and its aftermath. Featuring empirical, conceptual and policy analyses, alongside moving first-hand accounts of the experiences of war-affected children and youth, it highlights the urgent need for advocacy and action on this issue.Boasting state of the art contributions by eminent scholars and practitioners from across the globe, this Research Handbook explores the theoretical, practical, and policy issues related to children affected by war. Chapters investigate the profound harms experienced by such children and youth, whether in the heat of conflict, during flight or during resettlement to a new context, underscoring the urgency and high stakes of these situations for children and families affected by war. The Handbook demonstrates that scholarly discussions and debates must ultimately contribute to real-life changes to promote more just and effective immigration legislation, policies, programmes, and practices for war-affected children.Integrating conceptual analyses with concrete policy and political engagement, this incisive Research Handbook will prove essential for scholars, researchers, and students interested in war studies, security, refugee studies, forced migration, international development, child protection and post-conflict reconstruction. Its policy and legally-oriented chapters will also benefit policymakers, civil servants and international NGOs.Trade Review‘This important and timely book addresses the unimaginable toll of war on children and the urgent need for justice, accountability, and most of all: prevention. This Research Handbook is a vital contribution to the work on children affected by armed conflict.’ -- Lieutenant-General (Ret'd) The Honourable Roméo Dallaire, led the UN mission for Rwanda during the 1994 genocide, and is founder of the Dallaire Institute for Children, Peace and Security‘This Research Handbook is a must read for everyone interested in the welfare of the more than 500 million children growing up in today’s war zones, and how children’s voices and researcher’s scholarship contribute to more just and effective humanitarian responses and immigration policies.’ -- Neil Boothby, University of Notre Dame, USTable of ContentsContents: “How do we make up for lost time?”: Tackling current questions and realities of children during and following armed conflict 1 Maya Fennig and Myriam Denov PART I VOICES OF YOUNG PEOPLE IMPACTED BY ARMED CONFLICT 1 “Days turned into nights, but we just kept on walking” 20 Arsema Teame 2 “What could have been had I not left my family?” Reflections on war, migration and family separation 29 Bior Leek Ajak PART II APPROACHES TO CHILDREN AFFECTED BY ARMED CONFLICT 3 Prioritizing prevention: the value of a locally led approach in supporting conflict-affected children 38 Michael G. Wessells 4 Participatory action research with youth displaced by war: how youth know, feel and do peace and security 53 Rebecca Sutton 5 Refusing to be victims: child soldiers in the humanitarian world 67 Sylvie Bodineau 6 Stigma and guilt among the children of amnestied ex-combatants in northern Uganda: implications for transitional justice 86 Grace Akello PART III WAR, DISPLACEMENT, AND MIGRATION 7 ‘They have locked us in’: the impact of liminality and protracted displacement on the mental health of Eritrean refugee youth living in Israel 103 Maya Fennig and Myriam Denov 8 Children and parents separated at the U.S. border: a case of human rights violations in the Global North 123 Lyn Morland and Elaine Kelley 9 Agency, resilience and vulnerability of children in contexts of conflict-induced displacement 147 Cordula von Denkowski and Ulrike Krause 10 Navigating displacement: trajecto-making among forced migrant and refugee children and youth 168 Giorgia Donà and Angela Veale PART IV CRITICAL DISCUSSIONS OF POLICY/PRACTICE 11 Child detention in armed conflict 184 Frédéric Mégret and Isabella Spano 12 The child soldier under international law and policy 200 Mark A. Drumbl 13 Preventing the recruitment and use of children as soldiers: a perspective on moral injury and the security sector 215 Shelly Whitman 14 Children without parental care in armed conflict settings: right to family life and alternative care arrangements 232 Mónica Ruiz-Casares 15 Mental health and psychosocial support interventions for conflict-affected children and adolescents: strategies, challenges, and recommendations 253 Shoshanna L. Fine and Jura L. Augustinavicius Index 280

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Book SynopsisForced migration in the 21st century is closely linked to three global developments: climate change, rapid urbanization and the lack of solutions faced by millions of displaced people. The Handbook on Forced Migration brings a critical lens to the study of these issues. By adding the often overlooked disciplines of history and philosophy, this Handbook challenges narratives on forced migration, explains contemporary challenges, and provides a call for action.Each section of the Handbook presents diverse perspectives and a range of case studies on the interaction between forced migration and climate change, urbanization and solutions. The Introduction challenges different forced migration narratives, and the Conclusion makes new arguments for standards in forced migration research. A final chapter explores potential problems for forced migrants around digital technology,This fascinating Handbook will be an important read for human rights, humanitarian and development practitioners, and for urban studies and migration scholars and students. The research-centred approach will benefit academics and policymakers undertaking new investigations.Trade Review‘As global displacement is seen to be ever increasing in scale and complexity, this collection of perspectives – from a truly remarkable group of contributors – is essential reading for anyone that seeks to more fully understand this enduring phenomenon.’ -- James Milner, Carleton University, Canada‘The Handbook on Forced Migration provides a wide-ranging and iconoclastic set of reflections on forced migration across disciplinary perspectives. The first-rate and diverse set of contributors prove excellent guides through the thicket of this fundamental issue of our time.’ -- Matthew J. Gibney, University of Oxford, UK‘The Handbook on Forced Migration is a unique resource blending the perspectives of migrants, practitioners, and many of the leading lights and rising stars of academic research. Jacobsen and Majidi have curated an excellent introduction to many of the most vexing issues in the field.’ -- David Scott FitzGerald, University of California San Diego, US‘With a focus on climate change displacement, urban areas, and solutions to displacement and through a lens that braids history and philosophy, this insightful examination of forced migration is novel, timely, and needed—highly recommended for anyone concerned with knowledge production in migration research and with today’s policy approaches.’ -- Cecilia Menjívar, University of California, Los Angeles, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface xviii Nassim Majidi POEM: MAZEN SLEEPS WITH HIS FOOT ON THE FLOOR BY MARTÍN ESPADA PART I INTRODUCTION 1 Introduction to the Handbook on Forced Migration: a critical take on forced migration today 3 Karen Jacobsen and Nassim Majidi 2 Negotiating ambiguous status: mixed migration in theory and practice 20 Katrina Burgess 3 Migrant categorization under the patchwork of international, regional, and national law 33 John Cerone PART II PHILOSOPHY 4 Philosophy of forced migration: sit at the table or knock it over 45 Hervé Nicolle 5 Labels, norms: the illusion of control 58 Interview with Oliver Bakewell 6 Thinking without ‘fixing’: towards a feminist political geography 66 Interview with Jennifer Hyndman 7 Ethics, globalization, counter-narratives: confronting structural injustice 76 Interview with Serena Parekh 8 Dissensus, fictions, emancipation: the struggle for a world to come 85 Interview with Jacques Rancière 9 Securitization, decriminalization, resistance: from old fears to new values 92 Interview with Seyla Benhabib 10 Otherness, language, exile: expressing the poem of the Relation 100 Interview with Tanella Boni POEM: FLOATERS BY MARTÍN ESPADA NARRATIVE: CROSSING BORDERS BY FIRAT BOZÇALI AND REBECCA GALEMBA PART III HISTORY 11 Historical perspectives on forced migration 117 Susan Martin 12 Historians and forced migration: a persistent feeling of disconnect? 134 Jerome Elie 13 Reckoning with refugeedom: historical perspectives 142 Peter Gatrell 14 History, memory and the ethics of asylum 149 Tony Kushner 15 The roots of asylum 155 Ninette Kelley 16 Historical process tracing and forced migration: re-examining the creation of the refugee definition 162 Phil Orchard 17 Historiographies of early modern forced migrations in Europe and the Atlantic world 168 Susanne Lachenicht 18 The antecedents of forced migration in the Middle East 176 Dawn Chatty 19 The ‘home-coming’ of the refugees: narratives of partition-induced forced migration in South Asia (1947–1971) 182 Anindita Ghoshal POEM: ASKING QUESTIONS OF THE MOON BY MARTÍN ESPADA NARRATIVE: ENCLAVE DWELLERS AND PROXY CITIZENS IN BANGLADESH AND INDIA BY MD AZMEARY FERDOUSH PART IV CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL MOBILITY 20 Climate change, population, environment and forced migration 193 Jennifer Ventrella and Michael Cohen 21 Climate change, migration and inequality in contemporary India 207 Kavya Michael and Juhi Bansal 22 Climate and migration in Latin America and the Caribbean 215 Maiara Folly and Adriana Erthal Abdenur 23 Theorizing mobility justice in contexts of climate mobilities 225 Mimi Sheller 24 Challenging the “lifeboat discourse” on population and migration 232 Anne Hendrixson 25 Climate mobility and COP accountability 243 Karen Jacobsen and Susan Martin POEM: I WOULD STEAL A CAR FOR YOU BY MARTÍN ESPADA NARRATIVE: WAITING IN TRANSIT BY ANTJE MISSBACH PART V URBAN SETTINGS 26 The urbanisation of displacement 256 Lucy Earle 27 If not camps, then… cities? 270 Dyfed Aubry 28 Aid-induced informal settlement creation following disaster: the cautionary tale of Port-au-Prince’s Canaan slum 277 Christopher Ward and Louis Jadotte 29 Reconstruction as violence and forced displacement in Syria 283 Deen Sharp 30 Self-reliance in urban contexts for displaced people 291 Kellie C. Leeson, Paul Karanja, Galo Quizanga Zambrano and Dale Buscher 31 Framing urban displacement economies 298 Alison Brown, Patricia Garcia Amado, Engida Esayas Dube, Tegegne Gebre-Egziabher and Peter Mackie 32 From integration to conviviality: Syrian refugees in London and Berlin 307 Deena Dajani 33 National and local orders in the response to Venezuelan forced migration in Colombia: perspective from urban settings 314 Carolina Moreno, Gracy Pelacani and Laura Dib-Ayesta 34 The value of mayors in urban displacement settings: the case of Amman, Jordan 319 Yousef Al Shawarbeh (Mayor of Amman) and Samer Saliba POEM: NOT FOR HIM THE FIERY LAKE OF THE FALSE PROPHET BY MARTÍN ESPADA NARRATIVE: MARKETS OF DISPLACEMENT BY LUIGI ACHILLI AND KIM WILSON PART VI SOLUTIONS 35 Putting people back into place 331 Cathrine Brun 36 Rethinking solutions in never-ending displacement: what are the alternatives? 349 Cathrine Brun, Anita H. Fábos, Maha Shuayb and Nicholas Van Hear in conversation 37 Self-reliance and refugee economics in Uganda 362 Eria Serwajja and Hilde Refstie 38 Displacement limbo: durable solutions for IDPs in Georgia and Ukraine 376 Sean Loughna with Olga Ivanova and Julia Kharasvili 39 The shifting grammar of durable solutions in Latin America 388 Marcia Vera Espinoza POEM: I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU DEAD BY MARTÍN ESPADA NARRATIVE: RETURN AFTER INTERRUPTED MIGRATION CYCLES BY MAYBRITT JILL ALPES PART VII LIVED EXPERIENCES: THE VIEWS OF REFUGEES AND PRACTITIONERS REFUGEES 40 Narrative: life in South Africa: irresistible soft power meets the hard reality 412 Barnabas Ticha Muvhuti 41 Narrative: we escaped in seconds … it then takes four years to become a refugee 414 Hassan Hersi 42 Narrative: a Malawian in South Africa – the good and the bad 416 Mwaona Nyirongo 43 Narrative: I have always felt like I am not a forced migrant … enough 418 Yuliia Kabanets 44 Narrative: when a new chapter in my life began as a ‘forced migrant’ 420 Saida Azimi 45 Narrative: the second time I became a refugee 423 Zabihullah Barakzai PRACTITIONERS 46 Narrative: a few thoughts about UNHCR and the UN 426 Joel Boutroue 47 Narrative: a discredited model of refugee response 431 Jeff Crisp 48 Narrative: a more realistic conversation on solutions 434 Ninette Kelley 49 Narrative: moving beyond emergency assistance 438 Renata Dubini 50 Narrative: forced migration – a personal view 439 Richard Danziger PART VIII THE FUTURE 51 Responsibility and trust: using digital technologies in forced migration 443 Evan Easton-Calabria 52 Conclusion: a call for ethical standards in forced migration research 461 Nassim Majidi and Karen Jacobsen Index

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Book SynopsisThis insightful book analyses the process of the first adoption of guiding human rights principles for education, the Abidjan Principles. It explains the development of the Abidjan Principles, including their articulation of the right to education, the state obligation to provide quality public education, and the role of private actors in education.Multidisciplinary in approach, both legal and education scholars address key issues on the right to education, including parental rights in education, the impact of school choice, and evidence about inequities arising from private involvement in education at the global level. Focusing on East African and francophone countries, as well as the global level, chapters explore the role and impact of private actors and privatization in education. The book concludes by calling for the rights outlined in the Abidjan Principles not to remain locked in text, but for states to take responsibility and be held to account for delivering them, as promised in international human rights treaties. Interpreting human rights law as requiring that states provide a quality public education, this book will be a valuable resource for academics and students of education policy, human rights, and education law. It will also be beneficial for policy makers, practitioners, and advocacy groups working on the right to education.Trade Review‘The Abidjan Principles on the right to education have become a major reference tool for all, contributing to a dynamic process towards the implementation of the right to free, public, quality and inclusive education for all and leading the way for further action. At a time when we all hope to build back better, reading Realizing the Abidjan Principles on the Right to Education is a must for our common world.‘ -- Koumba Boly Barry, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to educationTable of ContentsContents: 1 Developing human rights guiding principles on State obligations regarding private education 1 Sylvain Aubry, Mireille de Koning, and Frank Adamson PART I THE CONTOURS OF THE HUMAN RIGHT TO EDUCATION 2 Human rights guiding principles: A forward-looking retrospective 25 Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona 3 Is there a right to public education? 52 Jacqueline Mowbray 4 Parental rights in education under international law: nature and scope 79 Roman Zinigrad 5 State funding of private education: the role of human rights 104 Sandra Fredman PART II WHAT EDUCATION RESEARCH REVEALS 6 Evidence on school choice and the human right to education 132 Joanna Härmä 7 How and why policy design matters: understanding the diverging effects of public–private partnerships in education 157 Antoni Verger, Mauro C. Moschetti, and Clara Fontdevila 8 The growth of private actors in education in East Africa 189 Linda Oduor-Noah 9 The evolution and forms of education privatisation within francophone countries 220 Marie-France Lange 10 Synthesizing the research to strengthen the implementation of the Abidjan Principles 244 Frank Adamson, Delphine Dorsi, and Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona Annex: the Abidjan Principles Process and the ten Overarching Principles 263 Index

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Book SynopsisUtilizing the ethos of human rights, this insightful book captures the development of the moral imagination of these rights through history, culture, politics, and society. Moving beyond the focus on legal protections, it draws attention to the foundation and understanding of rights from theoretical, philosophical, political, psychological, and spiritual perspectives.The book surveys the changing ethos of human rights in the modern world and traces its recent histories and process of change, delineating the ethical, moral, and intellectual shifts in the field. Chapters incorporate and contribute to the debates around the ethics of care, considering some of the more challenging philosophical and practical questions. It highlights how human rights thinkers have sought to translate the ideals that are embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into action and practice.Interdisciplinary in nature, this book will be critical reading for scholars and students of human rights, international relations, and philosophy. Its focus on potential answers, approaches, and practices to further the cause of human rights will also be useful for activists, NGOs, and policy makers in these fields.Trade Review‘We live in a moment of overlapping crises: in a radically unequal and dangerously warming world, populism, xenophobia, and closing space for dissent are the background conditions to which the acute calamities of a global pandemic and its dire economic consequences have been added. These intersecting emergencies have left human rights advocates searching for frameworks capable of generating new visions bold enough to tackle the challenges we face. Moving beyond legal foundations, The Changing Ethos of Human Rights, edited by Hoda Mahmoudi, Alison Brysk and Kate Seaman, offers perspectives on rights rooted in traditions such as philosophy, spirituality, and feminism. In these spaces, the contributors find an ethos of care that centers the interdependence of all human beings, offering a pathway forward in the midst of peril.’Table of ContentsContents: Introduction to The Changing Ethos of Human Rights 1 Hoda Mahmoudi 1 Values and human rights: implications of an emerging discourse on virtue ethics 14 Michael L. Penn 2 Dignity and treating others merely as means 35 Samuel Kerstein 3 Making rights rhetoric work: constructing care in a post-liberal world 52 Alison Brysk 4 Race and feminist care ethics: intersectionality as method 66 Parvati Raghuram 5 Difficult care: examining women’s efforts in the Islamic Republic of Iran 93 Hoda Mahmoudi 6 Empathy, caring, and the defense of human rights in a digital world 111 Kate Seaman 7 Cultural heritage, cultural rights and care ethics 136 Matthew S. Weinert Index 157

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Book SynopsisThe Indian question has come to the forefront of political agendas in contemporary Latin America. In the process, indigenous movements have emerged as important social actors, raising a variety of demands on behalf of native peoples. Regardless of the situation of Indian groups as small minorities or significant sectors, many Latin American states have been forced to consider whether they should have the same status as all citizens or whether they should be granted special citizenship rights as Indians. This book examines the struggle for indigenous rights in eight Latin American countries. Initial studies of indigenous movements celebrated the return of the Indians as relevant political actors, often approaching their struggles as expressions of a common, generic agenda. This collection moves the debate forward by acknowledging the extraordinary diversity among the movements composition, goals, and strategies. By focusing on the factors that shape this diversity, the authors offer a basis for understanding the specificities of converging and diverging patterns across different countries. The case studies examine the ways in which the Indian question arises in each country, with reference to the protagonism of indigenous movements in the context of the threats and opportunities posed by neoliberal policies. The complexities posed by the varying demographic weight of indigenous populations, the interrelation of class and ethnicity, and the interplay between indigenous and popular struggles are discussed.Trade Review"This work compares the ways in which indigenous peoples in Latin America have organized locally, regionally, and nationally to open up new political spaces since the 1980s. Avoiding the homogenisation of indigenous struggles, the book emphasizes the different paths to rights that indigenous peoples have found in different national contexts. At the same time, it analyzes common processes of ethnification, environmental and land struggles, indigenous involvement in national politics, and indigenous responses to neoliberal and multicultural state policies. What particularly distinguishes this book is its attention not only to indigenous ethnicity but also to the consequences of neoliberalism and the processes of class formation and reformation that have shaped the contexts for the flourishing of indigenous movements. A must read for anyone interested in Latin America and a very useful overview for students." -- Lynn Stephen, Distinguished Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon."Indigenous movements have become major social and political actors in Latin America, posing radical challenges to the extant model of the nation-state and notions of democracy and development. Bringing together in-depth studies of the Indian Question in seven Latin American countries, this book reveals the diversity of contexts in which indigenous movements emerge and develop their strategies. Highlighting this diversity through up-to-date analyses, it provides a welcome and timely contribution to the study of indigenous struggles, citizenship, democracy and development." -- Willem Assies, Colegio de Michoacan, Mexico.Table of ContentsPreface; National Roadmap for Responding to Climate Change; Forest Service Global Change Research Strategy, 2009-2019; Forest Service Strategic Framework for Responding to Climate Change, Version 1.0; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Indian question has come to the forefront of political agendas in contemporary Latin America. In the process, indigenous movements have emerged as important social actors, raising a variety of demands on behalf of native peoples. Regardless of the situation of Indian groups as small minorities or significant sectors, many Latin American states have been forced to consider whether they should have the same status as all citizens or whether they should be granted special citizenship rights as Indians. This book examines the struggle for indigenous rights in eight Latin American countries. Initial studies of indigenous movements celebrated the return of the Indians as relevant political actors, often approaching their struggles as expressions of a common, generic agenda. This collection moves the debate forward by acknowledging the extraordinary diversity among the movements composition, goals, and strategies. By focusing on the factors that shape this diversity, the authors offer a basis for understanding the specificities of converging and diverging patterns across different countries. The case studies examine the ways in which the Indian question arises in each country, with reference to the protagonism of indigenous movements in the context of the threats and opportunities posed by neoliberal policies. The complexities posed by the varying demographic weight of indigenous populations, the interrelation of class and ethnicity, and the interplay between indigenous and popular struggles are discussed.Trade Review"This work compares the ways in which indigenous peoples in Latin America have organized locally, regionally, and nationally to open up new political spaces since the 1980s. Avoiding the homogenisation of indigenous struggles, the book emphasizes the different paths to rights that indigenous peoples have found in different national contexts. At the same time, it analyzes common processes of ethnification, environmental and land struggles, indigenous involvement in national politics, and indigenous responses to neoliberal and multicultural state policies. What particularly distinguishes this book is its attention not only to indigenous ethnicity but also to the consequences of neoliberalism and the processes of class formation and reformation that have shaped the contexts for the flourishing of indigenous movements. A must read for anyone interested in Latin America and a very useful overview for students." -- Lynn Stephen, Distinguished Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon."Indigenous movements have become major social and political actors in Latin America, posing radical challenges to the extant model of the nation-state and notions of democracy and development. Bringing together in-depth studies of the Indian Question in seven Latin American countries, this book reveals the diversity of contexts in which indigenous movements emerge and develop their strategies. Highlighting this diversity through up-to-date analyses, it provides a welcome and timely contribution to the study of indigenous struggles, citizenship, democracy and development." -- Willem Assies, Colegio de Michoacan, Mexico.Table of ContentsPreface; National Roadmap for Responding to Climate Change; Forest Service Global Change Research Strategy, 2009-2019; Forest Service Strategic Framework for Responding to Climate Change, Version 1.0; Index.

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Book SynopsisProvides a critical and contentious overview of the fundamental relationship between writing and political dissent from early Greek democracy to post-Enlightenment forms of totalitarianism, such as Communism, Fascism and Nazism and through to modern forms of liberal democracy based upon universal human rights encapsulated by the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Complementing such historical contexts, this book explores the range of predominantly theological and religious, civil and political, social and cultural rationales for contemporary repression, contending that in the modern age at least freedom of expression issues are deeply affected not only by national law but that factors of a transnational (ideological or theological) nature. Finally -- through a review key inter-governmental and non-governmental (NGO) agencies -- the book examines current geo-political trends in the denial of freedom of expression, highlighting post-Cold War and post-September 11 shifts in political and religious repression, a movement in the locale of freedom of expression issues (especially towards electronic forms and Internet) and a heightening of global and transnational dimensions in freedom of expression. The book provides also a substantial series of appendices for scholars, researchers and activists interested in furthering investigation of issues in writing and human rights. A companion volume to "Human Rights & Religion", the book provides appendices for all those activists interested in furthering investigation of issues in writing and human rights.

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Book SynopsisIn the 1990s, Latin America emerged from the horror of massive and systematic human rights violations as the region returned to civilian-elected regimes. Many hoped that such transitions would bring about significant political, economic and cultural change: the rebuilding a more democratic order based on a "culture of human rights" that would reinvigorate democratic practices in the region. Despite the change in political regimes, such aspirations have come up against the "recalcitrant realities" of enduring military enclaves demanding impunity for past crimes, the persistence of neoliberal economics, ineffective and, in some cases, corrupt government coalitions, as well as the seemingly insatiable demands of private domestic and international capital for "flexible" labor and unregulated capital flows. The tragic events of 9/11 have become so pivotal in current debates on US domestic and foreign policy, that the "other" 9/11, that which took place three decades ago in Chile, seems to have been relegated to a distant footnote. This volume aims to re-examine Chile's 9/11 a historically and symbolically charged event and to explore the lasting legacy of the transformations brought about by the oppressive regimes of the '70s and '80s as they are being experienced today in the cultural, social and intellectual life of the region.

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Book SynopsisHuman Rights and Capitalism brings together two important facets of the globalisation debate and examines the complex relationship between human rights, property rights and capitalist economies. Human rights issues have become increasingly important in this debate and their place as harbingers of justice or as an instrument of oppression is fiercely contended. Both sides of this issue are considered in the contributions to this book and the complex relationships between human rights, human dignity and capitalist economies are the themes running throughout the work. Appearing at a time when these issues are a subject of extreme controversy, this book is distinguished by its balanced and academic approach. In three sections, the work first of all deals with theoretical and philosophical issues, exploring tensions between capitalism and human rights. The second section considers more specific problems relating to the trading regime, which have significant impacts on human rights, and the final section considers human rights and capitalism in a South American context.This is an interdisciplinary exploration of the tensions which occur in the modern globalised trading regime between capitalism and the attainment of universal human rights. It will be of interest to scholars interested in the globalisation debate, as well as economists, lawyers, philosophers and political scientists.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Conceptual Debates 1. Beyond Capitalism and Socialism Michael Freeman 2. Inflating Consent, Inflating Function, and Inserting Human Rights Sheldon Leader 3. Using Companies to Oppress the Poor Janet Dine 4. Law in Movement: Paradoxontology, Law and Social Movements Michael Blecher 5. Buying Right: Consuming Ethically and Human Rights Andrew Fagan Part II: Secific Issues 6. Managing Globalisation: UK Initiatives and a Nigerian Perspective ’Gbenga Bamodu 7. TRIPS and Bilateralism: Technology Transfer in a Development Perspective Steve Anderman and Rohan Kariyawasam 8. Jekyll and Hyde and Equation 5: Enforcing the Right to Development through Economic Law Rohan Kariyawasam 9. WTO Member States and the Right to Health Paul Hunt and Simon Walker 10. Time for a Change: Reforming WTO Trading Rules to Take Account of Reparations Fernne Brennan 11. The UN Norms Tom Sorell Part III: Focus on South America 12. Repayment of Sovereign Debts from a Legal Perspective: The Example of Argentina Sabine Michalowski 13. Development, Democracy and Human Rights in Latin America, 1976–2000 Todd Landman Index

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Book SynopsisExamines Eritrea's deprivation of human rights since independence and its transformation into a militarised "garrison state". When Eritrea gained independence in 1991, hopes were high for its transformation. In two decades, however, it became one of the most repressive in the world, effectively a militarised "garrison state". This comprehensive and detailed analysis examines how the prospects for democracy in the new state turned to ashes, reviewing its development, and in particular the loss of human rights and the state's political organisation. Beginning with judicial development in independent Eritrea, subsequent chapters scrutinise the rule of law and the court system; the hobbled process of democratisation, and the curtailment of civil society; the Eritrean prison system and everyday life of detention and disappearances; and the situation of minorities in the country, first in general terms and then through exploration of a case study of the Kunama ethnic group. While the situation is bleak, it is not without hope, however:the conclusion focuses on opposition to the current regime, and offers scenarios of regime change and how the coming of a second republic may yet reconfigure Eritrea politically. Kjetil Tronvoll is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Bjoerknes College, founding and senior partner of the International Law and Policy Institute, Oslo, and a former Professor of Human Rights at the University of Oslo; Daniel R. Mekonnen is Senior Legal Advisor, International Law and Policy Institute, Oslo, and former Judge of the Zoba Maekel Provincial Court in Eritrea.Trade Review2015 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title * . *The book will be well received by a wider readership, particularly among students of African regimes. . . . It will certainly stimulate and inform an ongoing debate on the national identity and constitutional future of Eritrea. * AFRICAN STUDIES QUARTERLY *This fantastically dense, thorough, rich, comprehensive tome breaks down Eritrean contemporary statehood and civil society in a way that should be copied as a model for modern political/national security case studies. Highly recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Eritrean African Garrison State Judicial development in independent Eritrea: Legal pluralism and political containment Rule of law(lessness) in Eritrea: The special court and the judiciary Democratic curtailment in Eritrea: 'Never democracy, always control!' Obliterating civil society in Eritrea: Denying freedom of organisation and expression The Eritrean Gulag archipelago: Prison conditions, torture and extrajudicial killings Everyday life of detention and disappearances in Eritrea: Vulnerable groups in a population under siege Minority marginalisation in Eritrea: EPLF's politics of cultural superiority Diversity diminished in Eritrea: Targeting the Kunama minority group The militarisation of Eritrean society: Omnipresent and neverending military service Eritrea? Towards a transition?

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Book SynopsisExamines the variety of mostly unorganized and informal ways in which Africans exercise agency and resist state power in the 21st century, through citizen action and popular culture, and how the relationship between ruler and ruled is being reframed. The recent eruption of popular protests across North Africa and the Middle East has reopened academic debate on the meaning and strategies of resistance in the 21st century. This book argues that Western notions of state and civilsociety provide only a limited understanding of how power and resistance operate in the African context, where informality is central to the way both state officials and citizens exercise agency. With the principle of informality as a template, the chapters in this volume collectively examine the various modes - organised and unorganised, formal and informal, urban and rural, embodied and discursive, serious and ludic, online and offline, successful and failing - through which Africans contend with power. Resistance takes place against the backdrop of deep fractures in state sovereignty, the remnants of colonial rule and the constraints of a global, neoliberal economic system. Ebenezer Obadare is Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Kansas; Wendy Willems is Assistant Professor, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Media Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.Trade ReviewIn the year of his death, Patrick Chabal . . . wrote the forward to this edited volume, which celebrates the everyday resilience, strength, and global consciousness of the continent's citizenry. His contribution is a testament to the work's scholarly importance as a beacon of interdisciplinary synergy that promotes ongoing dialogue and understanding by paving empirical pathways that lead to the facts about African resistances. * JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY *[A] thoughtful and important contribution to the ways in which we view and approach resistance across Africa. * AFRICAN STUDIES QUARTERLY A great book. AFRICA REVIEW OF BOOKS *Makes innovative interventions in the debates around how we think about the agency and resilience of ordinary people. ... Reading this book [is] an unusually enjoyable experience. * AFRICA *An excellent collection, well-edited and, without exception, well-written. * THE JOURNAL OF MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES *A theoretically and empirically rich book [which] serves to update a number of ideas about resistance in Africa. * AFRICA AT LSE BLOG *Table of ContentsForeword by Patrick Chabal - Patrick Chabal INTRODUCTION - African resistance in an age of fractured sovereignty PART ONE: POST-COLONIAL STATE FORMATION AND PARALLEL INFRASTRUCTURES - Ebenezer Obadare INTRODUCTION - African resistance in an age of fractured sovereignty PART ONE: POST-COLONIAL STATE FORMATION AND PARALLEL INFRASTRUCTURES - Wendy Willems Global technologies of domination and arts of resistance in Africa: from colonial encounters to the Arab Spring - Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni Citizenship from below: the politics of citizen action and resistance in South Africa and Angola - PART TWO: EMBODIED MODES OF RESISTANCE AND THE POST-COLONIAL STATE - Bettina von Lieres The politics of confinement and mobility: informality, relocations and urban re-making from below - Ilda Lindell The politics of confinement and mobility: informality, relocations and urban re-making from below - Markus Ihalainen Overcoming socio-economic marginalisation: Young West African hustlers and the reinvention of global capitalism - Basile Ndijo Accepting authoritarianism? Everyday resistance as political consciousness in post-genocide Rwanda - PART THREE: POPULAR CULTURE AS DISCURSIVE FORMS OF RESISTANCE - Susan Thomson Participatory politics in South Africa: social commentary from above and resistance from below - Innocentia Jabulisil Mhlambi Laughing at the rainbow's cracks? Blackness, whiteness and the ambivalences of South African stand-up comedy - Grace A. Musila 'Beasts of no nation': Resistance and civic activism in Fela Anikulapo-Kuti's music - PART FOUR: PUBLICS AS EVERYDAY SITES OF RESISTANCE - Jendele Hungbo The power of resonance: Music, local radio stations, and the sounds of cultural belonging in Mali - Dorothea E. Schulz Narrating the contested public sphere: Zapiro, Zuma and freedom of expression in South Africa - Daniel Hammett

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Book SynopsisReveals the impact of Tanzania's land law reforms and the ways in which women's rights to land ownership have been overridden in spite of law. Recent decades have seen a wave of land law reforms across Africa, in the context of a "land rush" and land-grabbing. But how has this been enacted on the ground and, in particular, how have women experienced this? This book seeksto re-orientate current debates on women's land rights towards a focus on the law in action. Drawing on the author's ethnographic research in the Arusha region of Tanzania, it explores how the country's land law reforms have impacted on women's legal claims to land. Centring on cases involving women litigants, the book considers the extent to which women are realising their interests in land through land courts and follows the progression of women's claims to land - from their social origins through processes of dispute resolution to judgment. Dancer's work explores three central issues. First, it considers the nature of women's claims to land in Tanzanian family contexts,the value of land in an era of land reform and the 'land rush' across Africa, and the extent to which the social issues raised are addressed by Tanzania's current laws and legal system. Secondly, it examines how agency and power relations between social and legal actors engaged in legal processes affect women's access to justice and the progression of claims. Thirdly, it explores Tanzanian concepts of justice and rights and how women's claims have been judged by land courts in practice. Helen Dancer is a lecturer in Law at the University of Brighton. She practised as a barrister in England specialising in family legal aid cases prior to training as a legal anthropologist. She is also a consultant for Future Agricultures at IDS, University of Sussex. Her areas of research interest include law and development, gender and land, and human rights and legal pluralism.Trade Review[T]he book addresses the existing legal provisions, deficiencies and achievements of gender equity in land allocation. . . . The book is highly valuable to scholars in conflict studies, law, international studies, diplomacy, development studies and anthropology. * AFRICAN STUDIES QUARTERLY *Having seen the author of this book present her work, I had high expectations, and they were not disappointed. This is a well-grounded and carefully thought through study. * TANZANIAN AFFAIRS *This is an excellent book that details the micro-level exclusions and difficulties women face in asserting land rights as well as the challenges states face in attempting to accommodate customary land law within egalitarian legal systems. It will be especially interesting to those interested in women's property rights and access to justice under customary law. * AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction Social origins of women's claims to land: Gender, family and land tenure in Arusha Women's claims to land in Tanzania's statutory framework Making legal claims to land: Agency, power relations and access to justice Doing justice in women's claims: Haki and equal rights "Shamba ni langu" (The shamba is mine): A case study of gender, power and law in action Conclusion

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Book SynopsisGives voice to the conscripts who are forced to serve indefinitely without remuneration under the ENS in a powerful critical survey of its effect from the Liberation Struggle to today. The Eritrean National Service (ENS) lies at the core of the post-independence state, not only supplying its military, but affecting every aspect of the country's economy, its social services, its public sector and its politics. Over half the workforce are forcibly enrolled into it by the government, driving the country's youth to escape national service by seeking employment and asylum elsewhere. Yet how did the ENS, which began during the 1961-91 liberation struggle as part of the idea of the "common good" - in which individual interests were sacrificed in pursuit of the grand scheme of independence and the country's development - degenerate into forced labour and a modern form ofslavery? And why, when Eritrea no longer faces existential threat, does the government continue to demand such service from its citizens? This book provides for the first time an in-depth and critical scrutiny of the ENS'sachievements and failures and its overarching impact on the social fabric of Eritrea. The author discusses the historical backdrop to the ENS and the rationales underlying it; its goals and objectives; its transformative effects,as well as its impact on the country's defence capability, national unity, national identity construction and nation-building. He also analyses the extent to which the national service functions as an effective mechanism of transmitting the core values of the liberation struggle to the conscripts and through them to the rest of country's population. Finally, the book assesses whether the core aims and objectives of the ENS proclaimed by various governmentshave been or are in the process of being accomplished and, drawing on the testimony of the hitherto voiceless conscripts themselves, its impact on their lives and livelihoods. GAIM KIBREAB is Professor of Research andDirector of Refugee Studies, School of Law and Social Science, London South Bank University. He is the author of Eritrea: A Dream Deferred (James Currey, 2009) and People on the Edge in the Horn (James Currey, 1996).Trade ReviewA detailed and comprehensive assessment of this central instrument of state power in Eritrea...drawing on survey and interview data collected from former ENS conscripts, now living abroad, the book presents a deeply complex picture of the programme and its influence. * AFRICAN AFFAIRS *This book makes a vital contribution to an important and pressing political and social issue that is impacting millions of people in today's Eritrea. . . . I applaud the author for making this timely and important contribution to the current literature on Eritrea migration, refugees, national service, and human rights studies. * AFRICAN STUDIES QUARTERLY *Kibreab deserves praise for raising awareness concerning the predicament faced by an entire generation of Eritrean youth. * AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW *Table of ContentsForeword by Christopher Clapham Introduction National/Military Service in Africa: Theories and Concepts The Government and the Structure of the Eritrean Defence Force The Nature of the ENS and its Effectiveness as a Fighting Force The ENS as a Mechanism for Preserving and Transmitting the Core Values of the Liberation Struggle The Eritrean National Service: A Vehicle for National Unity and Cohesion The Eritrean National Service and Forced Equality The Overarching Impact of the ENS on the Social Fabric of Eritrean Society Impact of the Open-Ended ENS on Families and Conscripts Conclusion

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Book SynopsisFinalist for the African Studies Association's 2021 Best Book Prize. Explores the limits of law in changing unequal land relations in Kenya. Why, despite the introduction of new land laws beginning in 2012, has there been an increase in land grabbing in Kenya? Why has legislation failed to address long standing grievances about grossly unequal land distribution? This important book suggests that questions of justice should be central to discussions of African land reform. Constitutional reformers in Kenya promised transformative changes in land relations. However, the reality has disappointed. Land law reforms since 2010 have been more concerned with the administration of land and with bureaucratic power than with the real consequences of unequal access to land for ordinary Kenyans. Manji documents this thwarted struggle and surveys the prospects for genuine change. Published in association with the British Institute in Eastern Africa. Ambreena Manji is Professor of Land Law and Development at the School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University. Between 2010 and 2014, she was Director of the British Institute in Eastern Africa. Her books include The Politics of Land Reform in Africa (2006). Vita Books: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan and South Africa.Trade ReviewThe book makes several important contributions to scholarship on land politics in Kenya. -- Canadian Journal of African StudiesBuilding on her own previous work, as well as the work of notable scholars such as Ghai, McAuslan and Harbeson, Manji provides a detailed overview of the history of the land struggle beginning in the colonial era, through the various commissions of inquiry, the formulation of the NLP, and the incorporation of land issues into the Constitution and drafting of the 2012 land laws. -- Journal of Modern African StudiesTable of ContentsForeword by Dr Willy Mutunga Introduction: What We Talk About When We Talk About Land Land Reform in Kenya: The History of an Idea Making Mischief: Land in Modern Kenya Land and Constitutional Change The New Institutional Framework for Land Governance Land Governance Before the Supreme Court Rethinking Historical Land Injustices Taking Justice Seriously

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Book SynopsisGrassroots researchers examine the barriers and ways of implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in Africa. Many have praised the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), first adopted by the UN in 2006, as a revolutionary step towards disability rights in Africa. But how real is the progress towards equality for persons with physical disabilities, mental health difficulties, blindness, deafness or albinism? What are the barriers to the CRPD's successful implementation on the continent, and how might we enforce inclusiveness and equality among those disadvantaged? This book brings together the findings of researchers in Ghana, Cameroon, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Zimbabwe and South Africa to offer grassroots' perspectives on the challenges and possibilities of achieving disability rights under the CRPD. Challenging the generally optimistic view presented to date, the contributors provide evidence-based trenchant critiques of the Convention, highlight the ways in which disability rights are interpreted in varying contexts and with different disabilities, and examine particular issues in relation to children and women. Finally, the contributors suggest ways of moving forward and achieving disability rights in Africa.Trade Review[I]mportant, panoramic volume. Highly Recommended. -- CHOICE MAGAZINETable of ContentsIntroduction Jeff Grischow & Magnus Mfoafo-M'Carthy 1 Framing Disability Rights within African Human Rights Movements Bonny Ibhawoh 2 Legislation as a Care institution? The CRPD and Rights of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities in South Africa Charlotte Capri 3 Examining the Implementation of Inclusive Education in Zimbabwe Tsitsi Chataika & Lincoln Hlatywayo 4 Barriers to the Implementation of Education Article 24 of the CPRD in Kenya Billian Otundo 5 A Disabled Disability Movement: The Paradox of Participation in Uganda Herbert Muyinda & Susan Reynolds Whyte 6 Implementation of the CPRD in Ethiopia: Grassroots Perspectives from the University of Gondar Community-Based Rehabilitation Programme Mikyas Abera 7 Knowledge and Utilization of the CRPD and Persons with Disabilities Act 715 of Ghana among Deaf People Wisdom Kwadwo Mprah & Juventus Duorinaah 8 CRPD Article 6 - Vulnerabilities of Women with Disabilities: Recommendations for the Disability Movement and Other Stakeholders in Ghana Augustina Naami & Joana Okine 9 Assessing the benefits of the CRPD in Cameroon: The Experience of Persons with Disabilities in the Buea Municipality Wisdom Kwadwo Mprah, Maxwell Peprah Opoku & Bernard Nsaidzedze Sakah 10African Ontology, Albinism and Human Rights Elvis Imafidon Conclusion Jeff Grischow & Magnus Mfoafo-M'Carthy

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Book SynopsisExplores the complex and intersecting dimensions of gender, ethnicity, and culture on women in the Global South, as well as the central roles of women in resisting colonial rule, and their foundational contributions to post-independence constitutional reform and nation building. For all the effort and attention women across the Global South receive from the international human rights community and from their own governments, human rights frameworks frequently fail to significantly improve the lives of these women or their communities. Taking Kenya as a case study, this book explores the reasons for this, emphasising the need to understand the effects of the legacy of local colonial and postcolonial histories on the production of gendered identities and power in modern Kenyan cultural and political life. Drawing on interviews with women in Nairobi and rural areas around Lake Victoria in Kenya, the author examinestheir access to, and experiences of, civil and political rights and citizenship, beginning with the colonial encounter, following these legacies into modern times, and the promulgation of the 2010 Constitution. In four thematic chapters, Kenny discusses women as victims and objects of cultural violence, the myths of the sorority of African women, women as victims of political and state violence, and women as actors in national political processes. In revealing that international human rights interventions have in fact reproduced the very patterns, structures, and hierarchies which are at the core of women's disenfranchisement and marginalization, the book provides new insights into the difficulties women face in accessing their rights and will be invaluable for scholars and NGOs working in developing states. Published in association with the British Institute in Eastern Africa.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Note on Ethnic Identities List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Kenya Colony in British East Africa: A History of Ethno-patriarchy 2. Bodies as Battlefields, Bodies as Weapons: The Colonial Regulation of Women's Bodies 3. Myths of Sorority: Kenyan Women's Community Organisation 4. Everyday Violence: Violence Against Women During Elections and Times of Peace 5. Gendered Citizenship, Politics and Public Space: Women's Participation in Government Conclusion Appendix: Field work, Focus Groups and Interviews Bibliography

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Book SynopsisGives voice to the conscripts who are forced to serve indefinitely without remuneration under the ENS in a powerful critical survey of its effect from the Liberation Struggle to today. The Eritrean National Service (ENS) lies at the core of the post-independence state, not only supplying its military, but affecting every aspect of the country's economy, its social services, its public sector and its politics. Over half the workforce are forcibly enrolled into it by the government, driving the country's youth to escape national service by seeking employment and asylum elsewhere. Yet how did the ENS, which began during the 1961-91 liberation struggle as part of the idea of the "common good" - in which individual interests were sacrificed in pursuit of the grand scheme of independence and the country's development - degenerate into forced labour and a modern form ofslavery? And why, when Eritrea no longer faces existential threat, does the government continue to demand such service from its citizens? This book provides for the first time an in-depth and critical scrutiny of the ENS'sachievements and failures and its overarching impact on the social fabric of Eritrea. The author discusses the historical backdrop to the ENS and the rationales underlying it; its goals and objectives; its transformative effects,as well as its impact on the country's defence capability, national unity, national identity construction and nation-building. He also analyses the extent to which the national service functions as an effective mechanism of transmitting the core values of the liberation struggle to the conscripts and through them to the rest of country's population. Finally, the book assesses whether the core aims and objectives of the ENS proclaimed by various governmentshave been or are in the process of being accomplished and, drawing on the testimony of the hitherto voiceless conscripts themselves, its impact on their lives and livelihoods.Trade ReviewA detailed and comprehensive assessment of this central instrument of state power in Eritrea...drawing on survey and interview data collected from former ENS conscripts, now living abroad, the book presents a deeply complex picture of the programme and its influence. * AFRICAN AFFAIRS *This book makes a vital contribution to an important and pressing political and social issue that is impacting millions of people in today's Eritrea. . . . I applaud the author for making this timely and important contribution to the current literature on Eritrea migration, refugees, national service, and human rights studies. * AFRICAN STUDIES QUARTERLY *Kibreab deserves praise for raising awareness concerning the predicament faced by an entire generation of Eritrean youth. * AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW *Table of ContentsForeword by Christopher Clapham Introduction National/Military Service in Africa: Theories and Concepts The Government and the Structure of the Eritrean Defence Force The Nature of the ENS and its Effectiveness as a Fighting Force The ENS as a Mechanism for Preserving and Transmitting the Core Values of the Liberation Struggle The Eritrean National Service: A Vehicle for National Unity and Cohesion The Eritrean National Service and Forced Equality The Overarching Impact of the ENS on the Social Fabric of Eritrean Society Impact of the Open-Ended ENS on Families and Conscripts Conclusion

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Book SynopsisFinalist for the African Studies Association's 2021 Best Book Prize. Explores the limits of law in changing unequal land relations in Kenya. Why, despite the introduction of new land laws beginning in 2012, has there been an increase in land grabbing in Kenya? Why has legislation failed to address long standing grievances about grossly unequal land distribution? This important book suggests that questions of justice should be central to discussions of African land reform. Constitutional reformers in Kenya promised transformative changes in land relations. However, the reality has disappointed. Land law reforms since 2010 have been more concerned with the administration of land and with bureaucratic power than with the real consequences of unequal access to land for ordinary Kenyans. Manji documents this thwarted struggle and surveys the prospects for genuine change. Published in association with the British Institute in Eastern Africa. Ambreena Manji is Professor of Land Law and Development at the School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University. Between 2010 and 2014, she was Director of the British Institute in Eastern Africa. Her books include The Politics of Land Reform in Africa (2006). Vita Books: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan and South Africa.Trade ReviewThe book makes several important contributions to scholarship on land politics in Kenya. -- Canadian Journal of African StudiesBuilding on her own previous work, as well as the work of notable scholars such as Ghai, McAuslan and Harbeson, Manji provides a detailed overview of the history of the land struggle beginning in the colonial era, through the various commissions of inquiry, the formulation of the NLP, and the incorporation of land issues into the Constitution and drafting of the 2012 land laws. -- Journal of Modern African StudiesTable of ContentsForeword by Dr Willy Mutunga Introduction: What We Talk About When We Talk About Land Land Reform in Kenya: The History of an Idea Making Mischief: Land in Modern Kenya Land and Constitutional Change The New Institutional Framework for Land Governance Land Governance Before the Supreme Court Rethinking Historical Land Injustices Taking Justice Seriously

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Book SynopsisThis innovative and timely Handbook brings together the work of 25 leading human rights scholars from all over the world to consider a broad range of human rights topics. The book discusses a wide range of contemporary themes, for example jurisdictional issues, such as human rights in the private sphere and extra-territorial obligations. It also deals with global and regional human rights systems, intersections with other areas of international law and practice, such as international criminal law and globalisation, and specific human rights topics including terrorism and indigenous peoples. Providing an excellent grounding for scholars seeking to understand the major topics within the discipline, this topical book is accessible to the novice human rights scholar, yet of great interest to the most seasoned human rights researcher. It will strongly appeal to law academics as well as students and practitioners of human rights.Trade Review‘This Handbook will quickly become the first stop for all interested in human rights, whether they are academics, activists or civil servants. It provides a clear and accessible guide to international human rights law, but never sacrifices sophistication for simplicity. The authors cover a great range of human rights issues in an imaginative way and alert the reader to the major debates and controversies. This is a valuable contribution to the international protection of human rights.’ -- Hilary Charlesworth, The Australian National University, Australia‘The advance of global human rights is a kind of miracle. This book furthers the enterprise with a collection of cutting edge chapters on the legal issues of the second half of the 20th century. Those who want to stay ahead in this adventure in the 21st century will need to know the challenges that appear on every page.’ -- The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG, Former Judge of the High Court of Australia 1996–2009Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. The United Nations and Human Rights Sarah Joseph and Joanna Kyriakakis 2. Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: An Examination of State Obligations Manisuli Ssenyonjo 3. Extraterritoriality: Universal Human Rights Without Universal Obligations? Sigrun I. Skogly 4. Non-state Actors and International Human Rights Law Robert McCorquodale 5. NGOs and Human Rights: Channels of Power Peter J. Spiro 6. Human Rights in Economic Globalisation Adam McBeth 7. Human Rights and Development Stephen P. Marks 8. Gender and International Human Rights Law: The Intersectionality Agenda Anastasia Vakulenko 9. Refugees and Displaced Persons: The Refugee Definition and ‘Humanitarian’ Protection Susan Kneebone 10. International Criminal Law Elies van Sliedregt and Desislava Stoitchkova 11. The Four Pillars of Transitional Justice: A Gender-Sensitive Analysis Ronli Sifris 12. The International Court of Justice and Human Rights Sandesh Sivakumaran 13. The Council of Europe and the Protection of Human Rights: A System in Need of Reform Virginia Mantouvalou and Panayotis Voyatzis 14. The Inter-American Human Rights System: Selected Examples of its Supervisory Work Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón and Claudia Martin 15. African Human Rights Law in Theory and Practice Magnus Killander 16. The Political Economy and Culture of Human Rights in East Asia Michael C. Davis 17. Islam and the Realization of Human Rights in the Muslim World Mashood A. Baderin 18. Religion, Belief and International Human Rights in the Twenty-first Century Peter Cumper 19. DRIP Feed: The Slow Reconstruction of Self-determination for Indigenous Peoples Melissa Castan 20. Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights Alex Conte 21. Human Rights Education: A Slogan in Search of a Definition Paula Gerber Index

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Book SynopsisEuropeans have attempted for some time to develop a human rights talk and now European intellectuals are talking about the need to construct 'European narratives'. This book illustrates that these narratives will emphasize a political and cultural vision for a multi-ethnic and more cosmopolitan Europe.The narratives evolve around human rights, partly in the hope that they might function as a cultural glue in an increasingly multi-ethnic Europe, and partly because they are intimately connected with that part of enlightenment thinking that sought to promote democracy and the rule of law. Helle Porsdam discusses the development of human rights as a discourse of atonement for Europeans - a discourse which has the potential to become a shared, transatlantic discourse.Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book will be an invaluable research tool for postgraduate students and scholars within the fields of law, history, political science and international relations.Trade Review'Helle Porsdam's new book is a readable and perceptive analysis of European and American perceptions of essential human rights and their roots in national and regional cultures. Professor Porsdam traces the notions of civil, political, social and economic interests as rights protected and implemented by law on both sides of the Atlantic. From Civil to Human Rights is a "must read" for Europeans, Americans, and everyone else who wants to learn more about the institutions, values, hopes and dreams that bring us together and hold us apart at the beginning of the 21st century.' -- Peter L. Murray, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, US'Is there a special human rights narrative emerging from the chastened soul of post-war Europe? What lies ahead for that great but shattered community? Helle Porsdam, a leader in the related fields of human rights and humane letters, bids fair to answer these and other pressing questions. Along the way her highly nuanced intellect addresses the frustrating differences among those contentious first cousins, Europe and the United States. The result is a wide-ranging, richly informed inquiry about Europe's rise from the ashes and the choices it must make to inspire rather than repulse the world around it.' -- Richard Weisberg, Cardozo Law School, Yeshiva University, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. A Soul for Europe? On European Culture and Narratives of Human Rights 2. The Problem(s) with European Culture 3. Transatlantic Dialogues, Past and Present 4. Institutionalized European Human Rights 5. Divergent Transatlantic Views on Human Rights: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 6. Divergent Transatlantic Views on Human Rights: The Role of International Law 7. Transatlantic Dialogues on Copyright: Cultural Rights and Access to Knowledge 8. Transatlantic Dialogues on ‘Law and Literature’: From ‘Law and Literature’ to ‘Law and Humanities’ 9. Transatlantic Dialogues on Film: The Case of Lars von Trier Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhile the notion of social harm has long interested critical criminologists it is now being explored as an alternative field of study, which provides more accurate analyses of the vicissitudes of life. However, important aspects of this notion remain undeveloped, in particular the definition of social harm, the question of responsibility and the methodologies for studying harm. This book, the first to theorise and define the social harm concept beyond criminology, seeks to address these omissions and questions why some capitalist societies appear to be more harmful than others. In doing so it provides a platform for future debates, in this series and beyond. It will be a valuable resource for academics and researchers across criminology, sociology, social policy, socio-legal studies and geography.Trade Review"Simon Pemberton’s groundbreaking volume provides a major step forward in understanding the causation and alleviation of widespread harm." Danny Dorling, University of Oxford“In a sense, criminology has been `waiting’ for this original and highly topical book. It is of theoretical, conceptual, methodological and empirical significance, making novel contributions in each respect.” Steve Tombs, The Open UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction; Defining social harm; Capitalist formations and the production of harm; Harm reduction regimes and the production of physical harm; Harm reduction regimes and the production of autonomy and relational harms; Harm reduction regimes, neoliberalism and the production of harm

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Book SynopsisWhile the notion of social harm has long interested critical criminologists it is now being explored as an alternative field of study, which provides more accurate analyses of the vicissitudes of life. However, important aspects of this notion remain undeveloped, in particular the definition of social harm, the question of responsibility and the methodologies for studying harm. This book, the first to theorise and define the social harm concept beyond criminology, seeks to address these omissions and questions why some capitalist societies appear to be more harmful than others. In doing so it provides a platform for future debates, in this series and beyond. It will be a valuable resource for academics and researchers across criminology, sociology, social policy, socio-legal studies and geography.Trade Review"Simon Pemberton’s groundbreaking volume provides a major step forward in understanding the causation and alleviation of widespread harm." Danny Dorling, University of Oxford“In a sense, criminology has been `waiting’ for this original and highly topical book. It is of theoretical, conceptual, methodological and empirical significance, making novel contributions in each respect.” Steve Tombs, The Open UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction; Defining social harm; Capitalist formations and the production of harm; Harm reduction regimes and the production of physical harm; Harm reduction regimes and the production of autonomy and relational harms; Harm reduction regimes, neoliberalism and the production of harm

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Book SynopsisThis well-researched book examines how the European Union could do more to ensure that EU-based multinational enterprises (MNEs) respect human rights when operating in third world countries. Alexandra Gatto identifies the primary obligations of MNEs as developed by international law, and investigates how the EU has promoted the respect of human rights obligations by the MNEs to date. The significant gap between the EU's commitment to the respect and promotion of human rights, the potential to regulate the conduct of MNEs, and the EU's reluctance to impose human rights obligations on MNEs, is thoroughly explored. It is suggested that the current human rights law should be developed, and this timely book recommends that the EU should firmly link the promotion of MNEs' human rights obligations to international human rights law, thereby supporting the constitution of an international law framework within the UN. Multinational Enterprises and Human Rights will be of very great interest to scholars of EU or International Human Rights as well as NGOs and policy makers in international organizations and corporations that support corporate social responsibility and human rights.Contents: Introduction Part I: Multinational Enterprises and Human Rights: The International Legal Framework 1. Theoretical Framework 2. Multinational Enterprises as Addresses of International Law 3. MNEs and International Human Rights Law Part II: MNEs and Human Rights in the European Union 4. Multinational Enterprises in the Present European Union System and the Emergence of Corporate Social Responsibility 5. Internal Measures Addressed to MNEs 6. External Measures Addressed to MNEs Part III: MNEs and Human Rights in the External Relations of the European Union 7. The External Relations of the European Union, MNEs and Human Rights 8. Measures Addressed to Host States in the Development and Cooperation of the European Union 9. Measures Addressed to Host States in the Common Commercial Policy of the European Union Part IV: General Conclusions 10. Conclusions Bibliography IndexTrade Review‘. . . the book provides a wealth of material for the further analysis of questions concerning MNE responsibility for human rights protection. . . the combination of theoretical with practical insights make this book a worthwhile read for academics as well as practitioners interested in the negative and positive effects of the activities of Europe-based MNEs on human rights in third countries.’ -- Chantal Mak, Common Market Law ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Multinational Enterprises and Human Rights: The International Legal Framework 1. Theoretical Framework 2. Multinational Enterprises as Addresses of International Law 3. MNEs and International Human Rights Law Part II: MNEs and Human Rights in the European Union 4. Multinational Enterprises in the Present European Union System and the Emergence of Corporate Social Responsibility 5. Internal Measures Addressed to MNEs 6. External Measures Addressed to MNEs Part III: MNEs and Human Rights in the External Relations of the European Union 7. The External Relations of the European Union, MNEs and Human Rights 8. Measures Addressed to Host States in the Development and Cooperation of the European Union 9. Measures Addressed to Host States in the Common Commercial Policy of the European Union Part IV: General Conclusions 10. Conclusions Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHuman trafficking is widely considered to be the fastest growing branch of trafficking. As this important book reveals, it has moved rapidly up the agenda of states and international organisations since the early-1990s, not only because of this growth, but also as its implications for security and human rights have become clearer. This fascinating study by international experts provides original research findings on human trafficking, with particular reference to Europe, South-East Asia and Australia. A major focus is on why and how many states and organisations act in ways that undermine trafficked victims' rights, as part of 'quadruple victimisation'. It compares and contrasts policies and suggests which seem to work best and why. The contributors also advocate radical new approaches that most states and other formal organisations appear loath to introduce, for reasons that are explored in this unique book. This must-read book will appeal to policymakers as well as advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of criminology, human rights law, gender studies, political science and international studies.Contributors: J. Debeljak, L. Holmes, S. Kneebone, Z. Lasocik, K. Leong, S. Milivojevic, S. Schwandner-Sievers, M. Segrave, O. Simic, S. YeaTrade ReviewTrafficking and Human Rights makes an important contribution to the ongoing debate about key issues in the global and national response to trafficking in persons.' --Benjamin Perrin, Asian Criminology'This well researched volume not only makes valuable contributions to the literature on human trafficking, but also clearly states its own limitations, such as a heavy emphasis on the trafficking of women and limited geographical coverage. Nevertheless, it deserves to be widely read among academics, scholars, students and policy makers interested in issues of human security, international studies, criminology and gender studies. I look forward to the publication of future work by Holmes and the other brilliant contributors to this volume.' --South East Asia ResearchTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction: The Issue of Human Trafficking Leslie Holmes 2. Human Trafficking: A Challenge for the European Union and its Member States (with particular reference to Poland) Zbigniew Lasocik 3. Responses to Sex Trafficking: Gender, Borders and ‘Home’ Sanja Milivojevic and Marie Segrave 4. People Smuggling and Human Trafficking Within, from and through Central and Eastern Europe Leslie Holmes 5. ‘Boys will be Boys’: Human Trafficking and UN Peacekeeping in Bosnia and Kosovo Olivera Simić 6. Between Social Opprobrium and Repeat Trafficking: Chances and Choices of Albanian Women Deported from the UK Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers 7. Trafficking in Human Beings for Sexual Purposes: Sweden’s Anti-trafficking Regime and the Lessons for Australia Kevin Leong 8. Combating Transnational Crime in the Greater Mekong Subregion: The Cases of Laos and Cambodia Susan Kneebone and Julie Debeljak 9. Exit, Rehabilitation and Returning to Prostitution: Experiences of Domestic Trafficking Victims in the Philippines Sallie Yea 10. Conclusions: Quadruple Victimisation? Leslie Holmes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive book offers both an introduction and a critical analysis of enduring themes and issues in the contemporary theory and practice of human rights. Providing a multi-disciplinary analysis, it engages with philosophical, political and social approaches to the subject of human rights.Andrew Fagan argues that the moral authority and practical efficacy of human rights are adversely affected by a range of myths and misunderstandings - from claims regarding the moral status of human rights as a fully comprehensive moral doctrine to the view that the possession of rights is antithetical to recognising the importance of moral duties. The author also examines the claim made by some that human rights ultimately only exists as legal phenomena and that nation-states are inherently hostile to the spirit of human rights. This book will challenge people to reconsider their understanding of human rights as a global moral outlook. This monograph will become essential reading for both postgraduate and undergraduate students interested in the field of human rights. It will also be invaluable to academics, researchers and human rights practitioners involved in the human rights debate.Trade Review'. . . Fagan has made a fine effort identifying several myths and misunderstandings haunting the modern project of human rights.' -- Varro Vooglaid, Finnish Yearbook of International Law'This book is a stimulating read and gives much "food for thought".' -- Sally Ramage, The Criminal Lawyer'This is a thorough and balanced work which examines the philosophical basis of human rights and tackles head on, the most commonly held suspicions and misconceptions - some of them politically motivated and deliberate - of human rights theory. If you specialize professionally or academically in the area of human rights legislation or even practical application, you'd find it useful to read this book. . .' -- Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor, The Barrister'The cause of human rights is powerfully expressed in these pages but equally the credibility gap that such a cause faces given the scale of human suffering in the world. Andrew Fagan offers a robust agenda of thought and action to pursue if we are serious about securing the universal enjoyment of human rights. The book is also an excellent introduction to contemporary philosophical standpoints on both the theory and practice of human rights.' -- Kevin Boyle, University of Essex, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. The Basis and Scope of Human Rights 2. Human Rights and Law’s Domain 3. Universalism and ‘the Other’ 4. Globalisation, Human Rights and the Modern Nation-State 5. Democracy and Human Rights 6. Global Economic Inequalities and Human Rights 7. Accentuating the Positive References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the complex relationships between trade, human rights and the environment within natural resources law. It discusses key theories and challenges whilst exploring the concepts and approaches available to manage crucial natural resources in both developed and developing countries. Primarily aimed at undergraduates and postgraduates, it includes exercises, questions and discussion topics for courses on globalisation and /or natural resources law as well as an ample bibliography for those interested in further research. The book will therefore serve as an invaluable reference tool for academics, researchers and activists alike.Trade Review‘In Globalisation and Natural Resources Law, Elena Blanco and Jona Razzaque provide a fulsome examination of natural resource management challenges, analyzing means to address inequalities, alleviate poverty and promote economic growth in the face of globalization. . . Blanco and Razzaque’s contribution is a fine one. It is recommended as useful reading for anyone interested in the intersections of globalization, resources management, equity and human rights.’ -- Hugh S. Wilkins, Review of European Community and International Environmental Law‘This book is a very welcome addition to publications on globalisation and natural resources management. It adopts a very broad approach to this important subject - it includes the general issues, such as trade and investment. It deals with very complex questions of permanent sovereignty over natural resources; the right to development; the role of indigenous peoples in resource management. This publication also provides the reader with general underlying principles and approaches to natural resources management, such as sustainable use; the precautionary principle; the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and the ecosystem approach, regulatory approach etc. The book is very analytical and gives a lot of food for thought for readers.’ -- Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Queen Mary, University of London, UK‘The book is the first of its kind to deal in depth with complex, cross-cutting issues relating to globalization and natural resources. The authors demonstrate not only a broad range of knowledge but also provide deep insights into what will be needed to make the transition from economic globalization to sustainable globalization, including improved resource efficiency and sustainable development, and inclusive and participatory governance. In particular, the authors consider specific approaches in such sectors as water resources, renewable energy, and biological resources. The book has carefully documented and analyzed numerous international, regional, and national legal frameworks as well as relevant theories and principles. It is a must for every law library as well as for policy makers, administrators, academics, non-governmental bodies, and civil societies. We owe a great debt to the authors for their painstaking, comprehensive research.’ -- Koh Kheng-Lian, National University of Singapore‘Globalization as a means of aptly capturing political, social, cultural, and above all else economic phenomena has been well-documented and the subject of a multitude of comment. What has perhaps been less well studied is its relationship with natural resource management. Thus this work by Merino-Blanco and Razzaque is to be commended. Moreover, by focusing on globalization, an important truth is revealed. It is neither about the diminution of the role of the State nor the ascendancy of the multinational corporation, but rather a more nuanced and complex interaction, which we are only beginning to appreciate. This book is an important contribution to that debate.’ -- Duncan French, University of Sheffield, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Theories, Principles and Key Issues 1. Globalisation and Natural Resources: Themes, Challenges and Dilemmas 2. Globalisation and Natural Resource Management: Principles and Approaches 3. Legal Framework Guiding Natural Resource Management Part II: Challenges 4. Global Governance and Sustainable Natural Resource Management through States and International Institutions 5. Multinational Corporations, Civil Society and Non-state Actors: Participation, Governance and Accountability 6. Compliance Part III: Approaches 7. Water Resources 8. Renewable Energy 9. Biological Resources Index

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the complex relationships between trade, human rights and the environment within natural resources law. It discusses key theories and challenges whilst exploring the concepts and approaches available to manage crucial natural resources in both developed and developing countries. Primarily aimed at undergraduates and postgraduates, it includes exercises, questions and discussion topics for courses on globalisation and /or natural resources law as well as an ample bibliography for those interested in further research. The book will therefore serve as an invaluable reference tool for academics, researchers and activists alike.Trade Review‘In Globalisation and Natural Resources Law, Elena Blanco and Jona Razzaque provide a fulsome examination of natural resource management challenges, analyzing means to address inequalities, alleviate poverty and promote economic growth in the face of globalization. . . Blanco and Razzaque’s contribution is a fine one. It is recommended as useful reading for anyone interested in the intersections of globalization, resources management, equity and human rights.’ -- Hugh S. Wilkins, Review of European Community and International Environmental Law‘This book is a very welcome addition to publications on globalisation and natural resources management. It adopts a very broad approach to this important subject - it includes the general issues, such as trade and investment. It deals with very complex questions of permanent sovereignty over natural resources; the right to development; the role of indigenous peoples in resource management. This publication also provides the reader with general underlying principles and approaches to natural resources management, such as sustainable use; the precautionary principle; the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and the ecosystem approach, regulatory approach etc. The book is very analytical and gives a lot of food for thought for readers.’ -- Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Queen Mary, University of London, UK‘The book is the first of its kind to deal in depth with complex, cross-cutting issues relating to globalization and natural resources. The authors demonstrate not only a broad range of knowledge but also provide deep insights into what will be needed to make the transition from economic globalization to sustainable globalization, including improved resource efficiency and sustainable development, and inclusive and participatory governance. In particular, the authors consider specific approaches in such sectors as water resources, renewable energy, and biological resources. The book has carefully documented and analyzed numerous international, regional, and national legal frameworks as well as relevant theories and principles. It is a must for every law library as well as for policy makers, administrators, academics, non-governmental bodies, and civil societies. We owe a great debt to the authors for their painstaking, comprehensive research.’ -- Koh Kheng-Lian, National University of Singapore‘Globalization as a means of aptly capturing political, social, cultural, and above all else economic phenomena has been well-documented and the subject of a multitude of comment. What has perhaps been less well studied is its relationship with natural resource management. Thus this work by Merino-Blanco and Razzaque is to be commended. Moreover, by focusing on globalization, an important truth is revealed. It is neither about the diminution of the role of the State nor the ascendancy of the multinational corporation, but rather a more nuanced and complex interaction, which we are only beginning to appreciate. This book is an important contribution to that debate.’ -- Duncan French, University of Sheffield, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Theories, Principles and Key Issues 1. Globalisation and Natural Resources: Themes, Challenges and Dilemmas 2. Globalisation and Natural Resource Management: Principles and Approaches 3. Legal Framework Guiding Natural Resource Management Part II: Challenges 4. Global Governance and Sustainable Natural Resource Management through States and International Institutions 5. Multinational Corporations, Civil Society and Non-state Actors: Participation, Governance and Accountability 6. Compliance Part III: Approaches 7. Water Resources 8. Renewable Energy 9. Biological Resources Index

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Book SynopsisProviding new insight into the ideas surrounding one of the longest running and hotly debated governmental issues the global access to healthcare challenge Louise Bernier develops an original theoretical framework that builds upon cosmopolitan liberal theory. This groundbreaking analysis offers a useful justification for engaging in a global and more equitable redistribution of health-related resources.The author examines if and how this theory of distribution translates into positive law and analyzes the barriers to legal compliance and global distributive justice in health. Other topics analyzed in this book include: intellectual property and international human rights, and the extent to which the philosophy and structure of each of these normative systems furthers the goal of distributing benefits equitably and globally; the use of strong and original normative landmarks to justify relying on a cosmopolitan approach to global justice based on health needs; and the social, political, economic and legal obstacles and opportunities resulting from the commercialization of the quickly evolving field of genetics. Ultimately, the book exemplifies the groundwork needed to initiate policy discussions and to eventually undertake concrete changes to achieve international redistribution of the resources emerging from genetics. As such, it will be of great value to students and scholars interested in health, law, human rights and intellectual property.Trade Review‘Providing new insight into the ideas surrounding one of the longest running and hotly debated governmental issues, the global access to healthcare challenge, Bernier develops an original theoretical framework that builds upon cosmopolitan liberal theory. The groundbreaking analysis in Justice in Genetics offers a useful justification for engaging in a global and more equitable redistribution of health-related resources. Ultimately, the book exemplifies the groundwork needed to initiate policy discussions and to eventually undertake concrete changes to achieve international redistribution of the resources emerging from genetics. It will be of great value to students and scholars interested in health, law, human rights and intellectual property.’ -- SirReadaLot.org‘This important book breaks new ground in the study of intellectual property and international human rights. It is an important contribution to the debate on how best to distribute equitably the benefits derived from genetic technologies on a global scale.’ -- Duncan Matthews, Queen Mary University of London, UK‘Edward Elgar publishers have again excelled by choosing to publish an essential book.’ -- Sally Ramage, Criminal Law NewsTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Preface Introduction Part I: A Theoretical Framework for Distribution in Health 1. Global Application of Distributive Justice: A Cosmopolitan Approach 2. An Argument for Global Distribution in Health Part II: Some Normative Tools for Distribution in Health 3. International Intellectual Property Law: A First Tool? 4. International Human Rights Law: A Second Tool? Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEuropeans have attempted for some time to develop a human rights talk and now European intellectuals are talking about the need to construct 'European narratives'. This book illustrates that these narratives will emphasize a political and cultural vision for a multi-ethnic and more cosmopolitan Europe.The narratives evolve around human rights, partly in the hope that they might function as a cultural glue in an increasingly multi-ethnic Europe, and partly because they are intimately connected with that part of enlightenment thinking that sought to promote democracy and the rule of law. Helle Porsdam discusses the development of human rights as a discourse of atonement for Europeans - a discourse which has the potential to become a shared, transatlantic discourse.Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book will be an invaluable research tool for postgraduate students and scholars within the fields of law, history, political science and international relations.Trade Review'Helle Porsdam's new book is a readable and perceptive analysis of European and American perceptions of essential human rights and their roots in national and regional cultures. Professor Porsdam traces the notions of civil, political, social and economic interests as rights protected and implemented by law on both sides of the Atlantic. From Civil to Human Rights is a "must read" for Europeans, Americans, and everyone else who wants to learn more about the institutions, values, hopes and dreams that bring us together and hold us apart at the beginning of the 21st century.' -- Peter L. Murray, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, US'Is there a special human rights narrative emerging from the chastened soul of post-war Europe? What lies ahead for that great but shattered community? Helle Porsdam, a leader in the related fields of human rights and humane letters, bids fair to answer these and other pressing questions. Along the way her highly nuanced intellect addresses the frustrating differences among those contentious first cousins, Europe and the United States. The result is a wide-ranging, richly informed inquiry about Europe's rise from the ashes and the choices it must make to inspire rather than repulse the world around it.' -- Richard Weisberg, Cardozo Law School, Yeshiva University, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. A Soul for Europe? On European Culture and Narratives of Human Rights 2. The Problem(s) with European Culture 3. Transatlantic Dialogues, Past and Present 4. Institutionalized European Human Rights 5. Divergent Transatlantic Views on Human Rights: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 6. Divergent Transatlantic Views on Human Rights: The Role of International Law 7. Transatlantic Dialogues on Copyright: Cultural Rights and Access to Knowledge 8. Transatlantic Dialogues on ‘Law and Literature’: From ‘Law and Literature’ to ‘Law and Humanities’ 9. Transatlantic Dialogues on Film: The Case of Lars von Trier Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHuman Rights and Environmental Sustainability challenges the assumed harmony between human rights norms and the demands of environmental sustainability, by addressing conceptual, normative, and political questions surrounding the interaction between the two.What is gained and lost by environmental theorists and activists adopting the language and institutions of human rights? Is there coherence or tension between the values of human rights and environmental sustainability? Is the idea of environmental human rights plausible, and defensible? Whereas previous studies have considered the interface between human rights and environmental sustainability on an empirical level, this pioneering book engages the theoretical and philosophical issues at stake. Given the significant environmental challenges we face, and the dominance of human rights as a normative framework, these concerns demand our attention.This timely work will appeal to scholars in the fields of environmental politics, philosophy, human rights theory and global or international ethics, as well as postgraduate students in environmental politics, and philosophy. Postgraduate students in human rights - particularly human rights theory - global or international ethics, and scholars working in environmental law or human rights law will also find this book invaluable.Trade Review‘Woods provides a valuable contribution to an important dialogue, crafted in a style that invites the reader to look further into the issues raised. It should become a first point of reference for many on the subject.’ -- Feja Lesniewska, Journal of Environmental Law‘Human rights and environmental sustainability have virtually unassailable legitimacy as objectives in the contemporary world. But do they work with or against each other? In this forensic dissection of the relationship between the two concepts, Kerri Woods raises the analytical bar to new heights. The result is a striking combination of intellectual sophistication and political sensitivity - not to be missed.’ -- Andrew Dobson, Keele University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. Globalization, Human Rights and the Environment 2. Human Rights: Moral Authority and Philosophical Doubts 3. The Contemporary Human Rights Regime: Some Criticisms and an Alternative 4. Environmental Sustainability and Environmental Values 5. The Institutions of Sustainability: Citizenship, Democracy and Justice 6. Rights or Sustainability; Rights and Sustainability? References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book offers the first scholarly analysis of the United Nations' work in the field of human rights education (HRE) and examines why HRE is so important.Paula Gerber argues that international law can learn from the medical profession, which has long recognized that 'prevention is better than cure'. There is an urgent need for HRE to be recognized as one of the best ways of preventing future human rights abuses; it is, in essence, a prophylactic for human rights violations. The book explores the provenance of human rights education in international law before critiquing the UNs work in this area across numerous different organs, including treaty committees, the Human Rights Council, General Assembly and Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The author identifies a number of deficiencies in the UNs HRE activities, and makes recommendations for how the UN can more effectively promote HRE and increase states compliance with their international HRE obligations. This book provides a unique and timely insight into the workings of the UN in this vital aspect of international human rights law.Understanding Human Rights will strongly appeal to UN Bureaucrats, civil servants, human rights academics, human rights institutions and NGOs.Contents: Preface 1. Prevention is Better than Cure 2. Provenance of Human Rights Education within the UN 3. Human Rights Education and the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 4. Human Rights Education and the Committee on the Rights of the Child 5. Human Rights Education and the Human Rights Council 6. Human Rights Education and the Economic and Social Council 7. Human Rights Education and the General Assembly 8. Human Rights Education and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights 9. Recommendations Appendix A. Extracts of Selected International Documents Relating to Human Rights Education Appendix B. Bibliography IndexTrade Review’In essence we have here with this excellent work Understanding Human Rights an important contribution for international lawyers partially explaining why the issues of the UK's concerns on human rights legislation raise such emotions: the matter is and always will be an issue of international and not merely domestic law.’ -- - Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor, The Barrister Magazine’This book is a worthy read and an essential ingredient of any HRE library.’ -- Felisa Tibbitts, Human Rights QuarterlyTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Prevention is Better than Cure 2. Provenance of Human Rights Education within the UN 3. Human Rights Education and the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 4. Human Rights Education and the Committee on the Rights of the Child 5. Human Rights Education and the Human Rights Council 6. Human Rights Education and the Economic and Social Council 7. Human Rights Education and the General Assembly 8. Human Rights Education and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights 9. Recommendations Appendix A. Extracts of Selected International Documents Relating to Human Rights Education Appendix B. Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA salient trend in studies of China and transnational civil society - two newly influential global forces - is the converging of their paths. Thousands of international NGOs and foundations have come to operate in China in the 'low politics' of environment, development and epidemics, while democracy activists campaign on China from outside. This path-breaking book investigates transnational groups' evolving relations with China and its NGO sector, and compares China with transnational stories of party states in Eastern Europe and Taiwan. This book discusses the penetration, growth and operation of transnational civil society (TCS) in China. It explores TCS' impacts on the incremental development of China's political pluralism, mainly through exploring the influences of the leading TCS actors on the country's bottom-up and self-governing activist NGOs that have sprung up spontaneously, in terms of capacities, strategies, leadership and political outlook, as a result of complex interactions between the two sectors. Transnational Civil Society in China opens up a new frontier in discussing the society, politics and international relations of China that will appeal to scholars and researchers studying China and transnational/global civil society.Trade Review‘Transnational Civil Society in China: Intrusion and Impact is a ground-breaking book investigating the complex relationship between transnational groups, the non­ governmental sector and the People's Republic of China (PRC), focusing on the penetration, growth and operations of transnational civil society (TCS) in the Chinese context. Compared with previous studies which described the community of non-profit and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) operating in China, Chen Jie's approach is extremely original. . . This study is a fine piece of research, which highlights the growing role that non-state actors play in contemporary China. The book is the result of much field observation and interviews conducted with experts from major international non­ governmental organisations, their Chinese partner organisations based in China and the United States, and Chinese political activists living abroad. The volume represents a noteworthy contribution to the field, providing third sector scholars and students of transnational civil society with useful tools for analysis.’ -- Silvia Menegazzi, International Spectator‘Chen Jie’s book Transnational Civil Society in China is a welcome effort that maps out a terrain which has been largely neglected in Chinese civil society research, namely the impact of transnational civil society on China. . . In general the book is a good read, and the research it presents is up to standard. Chen makes clear and empirically grounded arguments. . . the book makes a valuable and essential contribution to our knowledge of a phenomenon that is increasingly important in understanding the dynamics of an emerging Chinese civil society. The book is therefore ideal for researchers engaged in studying Chinese NGOs, civil society, and transnational activism in general.’ -- Lauri Paltemaa, China InformationTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. Presence of Transnational Civil Society in China 2. Transnational Intrusion and Beijing’s Mixed Reactions 3. Transnational Activism and Chinese Civil Society: Democratizing Impacts 4. Transnational Civil Society and China: Broader and Comparative Perspectives Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisThe fairness of institutions of global economic governance ranks among the most pressing issues of our time. Most approaches to understanding the complex structure of treaties and intergovernmental organizations such as the WTO tend to uncritically accept an economic focus, highlighting gains from trade and the merits of progressive trade and investment liberalization. While the economic arguments are compelling, other ways of thinking about the roles of these institutions have received less attention. The Research Handbook fills this gap by offering a substantial interdisciplinary examination of the normative and policy underpinnings of the international economic order.The book includes specially commissioned chapters based on theories of justice, human rights, and critical legal studies, as well as on economics and the internal structure of international economic law itself, all written by leading scholars in their respective fields. The contributors offer an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the relationship between international economic law and policy and the rights and welfare of peoples across the globe. The end result is an essential point of reference for developing a comprehensive toolkit for evaluating the institutions of global economic governance.Containing extensive and significant interdisciplinary coverage of key areas of research on international economic law and policy, this Research Handbook will appeal to political scientists, philosophers, legal scholars, economists and international relations theorists.Contributors: G. Brock, B.S. Chimni, L.V. Ciko, P. Clements, C.M. Correa, F.J. Garcia, B. He, C.L. Lim, J. Linarelli, S.M. Lundan, A. Maneschi, H. Murphy, E.-U. PetersmannTable of ContentsContents: Introduction John Linarelli 1. Theories of Global Justice Gillian Brock 2. Human Rights and International Economic Law in the 21st Century Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann 3. Theories of Justice and International Economic Law Frank J. Garcia and Lindita V. Ciko 4. Regional Trade Agreements and the Poverty Agenda Chin Leng Lim 5. Multilateral Development Banks and the International Monetary Fund Paul Clements 6. Human Rights Issues in Multinational Value Chains Sarianna M. Lundan 7. Intellectual Property Rights and International Economic Governance Carlos M. Correa 8. Global Social Justice at the WTO? The Role of NGOs in Constructing Global Social Contracts Baogang He and Hannah Murphy 9. Critical Theory and International Economic Law: A Third World Approach to International Law (TWAIL) Perspective B.S. Chimni 10. International Trade Theory and Comparative Advantage Andrea Maneschi 11. Law, Rights and Development John Linarelli Index

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Book SynopsisThis innovative and timely Handbook brings together the work of 25 leading human rights scholars from all over the world to consider a broad range of human rights topics. The book discusses a wide range of contemporary themes, for example jurisdictional issues, such as human rights in the private sphere and extra-territorial obligations. It also deals with global and regional human rights systems, intersections with other areas of international law and practice, such as international criminal law and globalisation, and specific human rights topics including terrorism and indigenous peoples. Providing an excellent grounding for scholars seeking to understand the major topics within the discipline, this topical book is accessible to the novice human rights scholar, yet of great interest to the most seasoned human rights researcher. It will strongly appeal to law academics as well as students and practitioners of human rights.Trade Review‘This Handbook will quickly become the first stop for all interested in human rights, whether they are academics, activists or civil servants. It provides a clear and accessible guide to international human rights law, but never sacrifices sophistication for simplicity. The authors cover a great range of human rights issues in an imaginative way and alert the reader to the major debates and controversies. This is a valuable contribution to the international protection of human rights.’ -- Hilary Charlesworth, The Australian National University, Australia‘The advance of global human rights is a kind of miracle. This book furthers the enterprise with a collection of cutting edge chapters on the legal issues of the second half of the 20th century. Those who want to stay ahead in this adventure in the 21st century will need to know the challenges that appear on every page.’ -- The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG, Former Judge of the High Court of Australia 1996–2009Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. The United Nations and Human Rights Sarah Joseph and Joanna Kyriakakis 2. Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: An Examination of State Obligations Manisuli Ssenyonjo 3. Extraterritoriality: Universal Human Rights Without Universal Obligations? Sigrun I. Skogly 4. Non-state Actors and International Human Rights Law Robert McCorquodale 5. NGOs and Human Rights: Channels of Power Peter J. Spiro 6. Human Rights in Economic Globalisation Adam McBeth 7. Human Rights and Development Stephen P. Marks 8. Gender and International Human Rights Law: The Intersectionality Agenda Anastasia Vakulenko 9. Refugees and Displaced Persons: The Refugee Definition and ‘Humanitarian’ Protection Susan Kneebone 10. International Criminal Law Elies van Sliedregt and Desislava Stoitchkova 11. The Four Pillars of Transitional Justice: A Gender-Sensitive Analysis Ronli Sifris 12. The International Court of Justice and Human Rights Sandesh Sivakumaran 13. The Council of Europe and the Protection of Human Rights: A System in Need of Reform Virginia Mantouvalou and Panayotis Voyatzis 14. The Inter-American Human Rights System: Selected Examples of its Supervisory Work Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón and Claudia Martin 15. African Human Rights Law in Theory and Practice Magnus Killander 16. The Political Economy and Culture of Human Rights in East Asia Michael C. Davis 17. Islam and the Realization of Human Rights in the Muslim World Mashood A. Baderin 18. Religion, Belief and International Human Rights in the Twenty-first Century Peter Cumper 19. DRIP Feed: The Slow Reconstruction of Self-determination for Indigenous Peoples Melissa Castan 20. Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights Alex Conte 21. Human Rights Education: A Slogan in Search of a Definition Paula Gerber Index

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Book SynopsisIn this topical collection, Professor Dinah Shelton brings together seminal articles published since the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment that discuss and debate the linkages between human rights and environmental protection. This comprehensive research review successfully encompasses the various approaches and thinking of the leading scholars in the field. This authoritative and timely book will be of great interest to lawyers, policy-makers, advocates and academics and will serve as an excellent reference tool for anyone with an interest in human rights and the environment.Table of ContentsContents: Volume I Acknowledgements Introduction Dinah L. Shelton PART I THEORETICAL APPROACHES 1. Joseph L. Sax (1990), ‘The Search for Environmental Rights’ 2. James W. Nickel (1993), ‘The Human Right to a Safe Environment: Philosophical Perspectives on Its Scope and Justification’ 3. Günther Handl (1992), ‘Human Rights and Protection of the Environment: A Mildly ‘Revisionist’ View’ 4. Sumudu Atapattu (2002), ‘The Right to a Healthy Life or the Right to Die Polluted?: The Emergence of a Human Right to a Healthy Environment Under International Law’ 5. Alan Boyle (2007), ‘Human Rights or Environmental Rights? A Reassessment’ 6. Roda Mushkat (2009), ‘Contextualizing Environmental Human Rights: A Relativist Perspective’ 7. Hari M. Osofsky (2005), ‘Learning from Environmental Justice: A New Model for International Environmental Rights’ 8. Richard P. Hiskes (2005), ‘The Right to a Green Future: Human Rights, Environmentalism, and Intergenerational Justice’ 9. James R. May (2006), ‘Constituting Fundamental Environmental Rights Worldwide’ 10. Prudence E. Taylor (1998), ‘From Environmental to Ecological Human Rights: A New Dynamic in International Law?’ PART II SPECIFIC ISSUES AND PROBLEMS 11. Malgosia Fitzmaurice (2007), ‘The Human Right to Water’ 12. Paul L. Joffe (2009), ‘Conscience and Interest: Law, Rights, and Politics in the Struggle to Confront Climate Change and the New Poverty’ 13. Marc Limon (2009), ‘Human Rights and Climate Change: Constructing a Case for Political Action’ 14. Cyril Uchenna Gwam (2002), ‘Adverse Effects of the Illicit Movement and Dumping of Hazardous, Toxic, and Dangerous Wastes and Products on the Enjoyment of Human Rights’ 15. Michael N. Schmitt (2000), ‘Humanitarian Law and the Environment’ 16. Christopher Tracy (1994), ‘The Roots of Influence: Nongovernmental Organizations and the Relationship Between Human Rights and the Environment’ 17. Daniel Barstow Magraw and Lauren Baker (2007), ‘Globalization, Communities and Human Rights: Community-Based Property Rights and Prior Informed Consent’ Volume II Acknowledgements An introduction to both volumes by the editor appears in Volume I PART I VULNERABLE POPULATIONS 1. Lawrence Watters (2002), ‘Indigenous Peoples and the Environment: Convergence from a Nordic Perspective’ 2. Cherie Metcalf (2003), ‘Indigenous Rights and the Environment: Evolving International Law’ 3. Rebecca Tsosie (2007), ‘Indigenous People and Environmental Justice: The Impact of Climate Change’ 4. Aurelie Lopez (2007), ‘The Protection of Environmentally-Displaced Persons in International Law’ 5. Karen E. MacDonald (2006), ‘Sustaining the Environmental Rights of Children: An Exploratory Critique’ PART II INTERNATIONAL TEXTS AND JURISPRUDENCE 6. Neil A.F. Popović (1996), ‘In Pursuit of Environmental Human Rights: Commentary on the Draft Declaration of Principles on Human Rights and the Environment’ 7. John H. Knox (2009), ‘Linking Human Rights and Climate Change at the United Nations’ 8. Dinah Shelton (2010), ‘Developing Substantive Environmental Rights’ 9. Stephen J. Powell (2007), ‘Should or Must?: Nature of the Obligation of States to Use Trade Instruments for the Advancement of Environmental, Labour, and Other Human Rights’ 10. Ole W. Pedersen (2008), ‘European Environmental Human Rights and Environmental Rights: A Long Time Coming?’ 11. Kristof Hectors (2008), ‘The Chartering of Environmental Protection: Exploring the Boundaries of Environmental Protection as Human Right’ 12. Jona Razzaque (2007), ‘Linking Human Rights, Development, and Environment: Experiences from Litigation in South Asia’ 13. Cesare Pitea (2006), ‘The Non-Compliance Procedure of the Aarhus Convention: Between Environmental and Human Rights Control Mechanisms’

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Book SynopsisThis one-of-a-kind dictionary provides a comprehensive breakdown of terms employed in the discussion of international human rights law. In addition to a list of definitions, this innovative volume also includes an appendix featuring descriptions of major treaties, documents, and other important human rights instruments, along with references on how to locate them.Students and professors of international, human rights and humanitarian law will find this volume an indispensable resource, as will government officials and other practitioners working with human rights issues.Contents: Acknowledgements Guide to the Dictionary List of Abbreviations Definitions AppendixTrade Review’Constance de la Vega's Dictionary of International Human Rights is a marvellous new human rights resource. It provides concise definitions and explanations of key human rights phrases, including specific recognised and emerging rights, relevant concepts, institutions and instruments. Human rights law has not grown in a vacuum, so some related concepts, such as from international criminal law and the law of armed conflict, are wisely included. This book will be an important addition to the libraries of human rights scholars, practitioners and advocates throughout the world.’ -- Sarah Joseph, Monash University, Australia’A powerful technical dictionary suitable for any student of international law and social issues.’ -- The Midwest Book Review’This book will be useful to students and general readers who have questions about human rights.’ -- - K.C. Fraser, Social SciencesTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Guide to the Dictionary List of Abbreviations Definitions Appendix

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Book SynopsisThis insightful book addresses human rights from the perspective of those groups whose rights are especially vulnerable to abuse, with particular reference to stateless or internally-displaced persons, linguistic, cultural and sexual minorities and disabled people.Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction David Weissbrodt and Mary Rumsey PART I NON-CITIZENS AND INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS A Refugees 1. Tom J. Farer (1995), ‘How the International System Copes with Involuntary Migration: Norms, Institutions and State Practice’ B Asylum Seekers 2. Jacqueline Bhabha (2002), ‘Internationalist Gatekeepers?: The Tension Between Asylum Advocacy and Human Rights’ C Migrant Workers 3. Ryszard Cholewinski (2007–2008), ‘The Human and Labor Rights of Migrants: Visions of Equality’ D Stateless People 4. David Weissbrodt and Clay Collins (2006), ‘The Human Rights of Stateless Persons’ E Internally Displaced Persons 5. Walter Kälin (1998), ‘The Guiding Principles on International Displacement – Introduction’ F Non-citizens Generally 6. David Weissbrodt and Stephen Meili (2010), ‘Human Rights and Protection of Non-citizens: Whither Universality and Indivisibility of Rights?’ PART II LINGUISTIC, CULTURAL AND SEXUAL MINORITIES A Generally 7. Nigel S. Rodley (1995), ‘Conceptual Problems in the Protection of Minorities: International Legal Developments’ B Indigenous Peoples 8. Robert T. Coulter (2009), ‘The U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: A Historic Change in International Law’ 9. Elsa Stamatopoulou (1994), ‘Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations: Human Rights as a Developing Dynamic’ C Gays and Lesbians 10. Douglas Sanders (2010), ‘Out at the UN’ 11. Suzanne M. Marks (2006), ‘Global Recognition of Human Rights for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People’ D Linguistic Minorities 12. Robert Dunbar (2001), ‘Minority Language Rights in International Law’ PART III PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES A HIV / AIDS 13. Ellen M. Walker (2007), ‘The HIV/AIDS Pandemic and Human Rights: A Continuum Approach’ B The Elderly 14. Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón and Claudia Martin (2003), ‘The International Human Rights Status of Elderly Persons’ C Children 15. Rita Shackel (2003), ‘The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: A Review of its Successes and Future Directions’ D Mental Disabilities 16. Lawrence O. Gostin and Lance Gable (2004), ‘The Human Rights of Persons with Mental Disabilities: A Global Perspective on the Application of Human Rights Principles to Mental Health’ E Disabilities Generally 17. Michael Ashley Stein (2007), ‘Disability Human Rights’

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Book SynopsisSince the end of the Cold War there has been an explosion of international courts and tribunals that sit apart from domestic legal systems, yet they are often woefully inadequate for their stated purposes. This book explores common problems across these courts, and applies a constructivist theory of international relations to explain their operation. Often established by states as signals of their commitment to moral values and political ideology, once created these courts find themselves trapped between the interests of the Great Powers. Some endure irrelevance, their judgements ignored. Yet more are unusably slow. Still others exhibit demonstrable political bias. Their common failings suggest that international law is not nearly as robust as it claims. The author skilfully shows that international courts are a species of international organization, and share the same challenges of bureaucracy and unaccountability as have plagued the United Nations. Mirages of International Justice will be of particular interest to scholars and practitioners interested in critiques of the European Court of Human Rights, the World Trade Organisation, investment treaty arbitration, the EU courts, the international criminal courts, the International Court of Justice and public international law in general. Students of international relations and advocates for reform of international organizations will also learn much from this insightful study.Trade Review‘This is an excellent book. Matthew Parish is an impressively qualified lawyer. . . it is perhaps only someone with such a background who could write a book as insightful and intelligent about international law and the international organisations who purport to administer it.’ -- Troy Anderson, Law Society Journal’This is a book of unusual power and insight. Parish's deconstruction of the illusory promise of international justice may make uneasy reading but it is a necessary addition to the literature in this field.’- David Chandler, University of Westminster, UK and Editor of the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding'This book issues the latest blast against the crumbling battlements of the cloud-fortress of international law. Meticulous, engaging, and forcefully written, the book offers little consolation for defenders amid the ruins.’ -- Eric Posner, University of Chicago Law School, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Mirages 2. International Law: The Legacy of the Twentieth Century 3. Irrelevant Courts for Important Disputes 4. International Criminal Law: Victors’ Justice or an Interminable Machine? 5. Protecting Foreign Capital Flows: Who Released the Genie? 6. Self-spite in the Regulation of International Trade 7. The Arid Promises of International Human Rights 8. The Allure of Judicial Trusteeship in the European Union Experience 9. The Future of an Illusion Index

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Book SynopsisThe 1990s witnessed a surge of feminist human rights scholarship and activism in international law which has shaped jurisprudential and institutional developments, yet gender issues and human rights still remain a challenging and evolving field of study. In this collection, Professor Otto brings together seminal works which are united in their aim of questioning the existing gendered hierarchies of power and inequality and the purportedly natural foundations that have justified oppressive gender stereotypes. Included works cover, among others, the history and early developments of women's rights, structural critiques of international human rights law, recognizing new human rights, linking women's economic inequality and human rights and thinking beyond the duality of gender.Table of ContentsContents: Volume I Acknowledgements Introduction Dianne Otto PART I: GENEALOGIES: HISTORIES OF STRUGGLE 1. Arvonne S. Fraser (1999), ‘Becoming Human: The Origins and Development of Women’s Human Rights’ 2. Felice D. Gaer (1998), ‘And Never the Twain Shall Meet? The Struggle to Establish Women’s Rights as International Human Rights’ 3. Karen Engle (1992), ‘International Human Rights and Feminism: When Discourses Meet’ 4. Dianne Otto (2006), ‘Lost in Translation: Re-Scripting the Sexed Subjects of International Human Rights Law’ PART II: WOMEN’S NEEDS OR WOMEN’S RIGHTS? EARLY NORMATIVE AND INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENTS 5. Johannes Morsink (1991), ‘Women's Rights in the Universal Declaration’ 6. Natalie Kaufman Hevener (1978), ‘International Law and the Status of Women: An Analysis of International Legal Instruments Related to the Treatment of Women’ 7. Laura Reanda (1981), ‘Human Rights and Women’s Rights: The United Nations Approach’ 8. Helen Bequaert Holmes (1983), ‘A Feminist Analysis of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ 9. Noreen Burrows (1985), ‘The 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women’ 10. Andrew C. Byrnes (1989), ‘The “Other” Human Rights Treaty Body: The Work of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women’ 11. Abdullahi An-Na’im (1987), ‘The Rights of Women and International Law in the Muslim Context’ PART III: PUBLIC/PRIVATE, LOCAL/GLOBAL: STRUCTURAL CRITIQUES OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW 12. Celina Romany (1993), ‘Women as Aliens: A Feminist Critique of the Public/Private Distinction in International Human Rights Law’ 13. Hilary Charlesworth (1994), ‘What are “Women’s International Human Rights”?’ 14. J. Oloka-Onyango and Sylvia Tamale (1995), ‘“The Personal Is Political,” or Why Women’s Rights are Indeed Human Rights: An African Perspective on International Feminism’ 15. V. Spike Peterson and Laura Parisi (1998), ‘Are Women Human? It’s not an Academic Question’ 16. Hilary Charlesworth and Christine Chinkin (1993), ‘The Gender of Jus Cogens’ 17. Karen Engle (1993), ‘After the Collapse of the Public/Private Distinction: Strategizing Women’s Rights’ 18. L. Amede Obiora (1997), ‘Feminism, Globalization, and Culture: After Beijing’ 19. Christine Chinkin and Shelley Wright (1993), ‘The Hunger Trap: Women, Food, and Self-Determination’ 20. Anne Orford (1998), ‘Contesting Globalization: A Feminist Perspective on the Future of Human Rights’ Volume II Acknowledgements An Introduction to all three volumes by the Editor appears in Volume I PART I: WHICH WOMEN? WHOSE RIGHTS? BUILDING MULTICULTURAL AND INTERSECTIONAL FEMINISMS 1. Isabelle R. Gunning (1991–2), ‘Arrogant Perception, World-Travelling and Multicultural Feminism: The Case of Female Genital Surgeries’ 2. Ratna Kapur (2002), ‘The Tragedy of Victimization Rhetoric: Resurrecting the “Native” Subject in International/Post-Colonial Feminist Legal Politics’ 3. Radhika Coomaraswamy (2002–2003), ‘Identity Within: Cultural Relativism, Minority Rights and the Empowerment of Women’ 4. Penelope Andrews (1997), ‘Violence Against Aboriginal Women in Australia: Possibilities for Redress within the International Human Rights Framework’ 5. Adila Abusharaf (2006), ‘Women in Islamic Communities: The Quest for Gender Justice Research’ 6. Tracy E. Higgins (1996), ‘Anti-Essentialism, Relativism, and Human Rights’ 7. Shefali Desai (1999), ‘Hearing Afghan Women’s Voices: Feminist Theory’s Re-Conceptualization of Women’s Human Rights’ 8. Kimberle Crenshaw (1989), ‘Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics’ 9. Johanna E. Bond (2003), ‘International Intersectionality: A Theoretical and Pragmatic Exploration of Women’s International Human Rights Violations’ PART II: WOMEN ARE HUMAN TOO: RECONCEPTUALIZING MAINSTREAM HUMAN RIGHTS 10. Rhonda Copelon (1994), ‘Recognizing the Egregious in the Everyday: Domestic Violence as Torture’ 11. Alice Edwards (2006), ‘The “Feminizing” of Torture under International Human Rights Law’ 12. Giulia Paglione (2006), ‘Domestic Violence and Housing Rights: A Reinterpretation of the Right to Housing’ 13. Leilani Farha (2002), ‘Is There a Woman in the House? Re/conceiving the Human Right to Housing’ 14. Rebecca J. Cook (1994-1995), ‘Human Rights and Reproductive Self-Determination’ 15. Fleur van Leeuwen (2007), ‘A Woman's Right To Decide? The United Nations Human Rights Committee, Human Rights of Women, and Matters of Human Reproduction’ 16. Anne Gallagher (1997), ‘Ending the Marginalization: Strategies for Incorporating Women into the United Nations Human Rights System’ 17. Hilary Charlesworth (2005), ‘Not Waving but Drowning: Gender Mainstreaming and Human Rights in the United Nations’ PART III: WOMEN’S RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS: RECOGNIZING NEW HUMAN RIGHTS 18. Charlotte Bunch (1990), ‘Women’s Rights as Human Rights: Toward a Re-Vision of Human Rights’ 19. Alice M. Miller (2004), ‘Sexuality, Violence against Women, and Human Rights: Women Make Demands and Ladies Get Protection’ 20. Lisa A. Crooms (1999), ‘Using a Multi-Tiered Analysis to Reconceptualize Gender-Based Violence against Women as a Matter of International Human Rights’ 21. Sarah Y. Lai and Regan E. Ralph (1995), ‘Female Sexual Autonomy and Human Rights’ 22. Yasmin Tambiah (1998), ‘Realizing Women’s Sexual Rights: Challenges in South Asia’ 23. Elizabeth Sepper (2008), ‘Confronting the “Sacred and Unchangeable”: The Obligation to Modify Cultural Patterns Under the Women’s Discrimination Treaty’ 24. Simone Cusack and Rebecca J. Cook (2009), ‘Stereotyping Women in the Health Sector: Lessons from CEDAW’ Volume III Acknowledgements An Introduction to all three volumes by the Editor appears in Volume I PART I: PURSUING IMPLEMENTATION: THE IMPORTANCE OF CRITICAL ACTIVISM 1. Afra Afsharipour (1999), ‘Empowering Ourselves: The Role of Women’s NGOs in the Enforcement of the Women’s Convention’ 2. Diane Elson and Jasmine Gideon (2004), ‘Organising for Women’s Economic and Social Rights: How useful is the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights?’ 3. Renu Mandhane (2004), ‘The Use of Human Rights Discourse to Secure Women’s Interests: Critical Analysis of the Implications’ 4. Cheah Wui Ling (2009), ‘Walking the Long Road in Solidarity and Hope: A Case Study of the “Comfort Women” Movement’s Deployment of Human Rights Discourse’ 5. Doris E. Buss (2004), ‘Finding the Homosexual in Women’s Rights: The Christian Right in International Politics’ 6. James Gathii (2006), ‘Exporting Culture Wars’ 7. Sari Kouvo (2008), ‘A “Quick and Dirty” Approach to Women’s Emancipation and Human Rights?’ 8. Sally Engle Merry (2003), ‘Rights Talk and the Experience of Law: Implementing Women’s Human Rights to Protection from Violence’ PART II: LINKING WOMEN’S NEEDS AND RIGHTS: WOMEN, HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEVELOPMENT 9. Dianne Otto (1996), ‘Holding up Half the Sky, but for Whose Benefit?: A Critical Analysis of the Fourth World Conference on Women’ 10. Andrea Cornwall and Maxine Molyneux (2006), ‘The Politics of Rights – Dilemmas for Feminist Praxis: An Introduction’ 11. Kerry Rittich (2003), ‘Engendering Development/Marketing Equality’ 12. Celestine I. Nyamu (2000), ‘How Should Human Rights and Development Respond to Cultural Legitimization of Gender Hierarchy in Developing Countries?’ 13. Rachel Rebouché (2006), ‘Labor, Land, and Women’s Rights in Africa: Challenges for the New Protocol on the Rights of Women’ 14. Ambreena Manji (2003), ‘Remortgaging Women’s Lives: The World Bank’s Land Agenda in Africa’ 15. Juanita Elias (2007), ‘Women Workers and Labour Standards: The Problem of “Human Rights”’ 16. Margaret L. Satterthwaite (2005), ‘Crossing Borders, Claiming Rights: Using Human Rights Law to Empower Women Migrant Workers’ 17. Janie Chuang (1998), ‘Redirecting the Debate over Trafficking in Women: Definitions, Paradigms, and Contexts’ PART III: THE QUESTION OF MEN AND OTHER GENDER IDENTITIES: BEYOND THE GENDER DUALITY 18. Sally Baden and Anne Marie Goetz (1998), ‘Who Needs [Sex] When You Can Have [Gender]? Conflicting Discourses on Gender at Beijing’ 19. Kirsten Anderson (2008), ‘Violence Against Women: State Responsibilities in International Human Rights Law to Address Harmful “Masculinities”’ 20. Kumaralingam Amirthalingam (2005), ‘Women's Rights, International Norms, and Domestic Violence: Asian Perspectives’ 21. Sandesh Sivakumaran (2005), ‘Male/Male Rape and the “Taint” of Homosexuality’ 22. Brenda Cossman, Dan Danielsen, Janet Halley and Tracy Higgins (2003), ‘Gender, Sexuality, and Power: Is Feminist Theory Enough?’ 23. Aeyal M. Gross (2008), ‘Sex, Love, and Marriage: Questioning Gender and Sexuality Rights in International Law’ 24. Darren Rosenblum (2011), ‘Unisex CEDAW, or What’s Wrong with Women’s Rights’ 25. Brenda Cossman (2002), ‘Gender Performance, Sexual Subjects and International Law’ 26. Moya Lloyd (2007), ‘(Women’s) Human Rights: Paradoxes and Possibilities’

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Book SynopsisTerrorism and human rights has been the subject of increased attention since the events of 11th September 2001. Drawing on works that were originally published between 2002 and 2011, this authoritative collection covers a variety of topics, including detention and extraordinary rendition, targeted killings, freedom of expression, privacy and terrorist listings.Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Martin Scheinin PART I GENERAL FRAMEWORK 1. Martin Scheinin and Mathias Vermeulen (2011), ‘Unilateral Exceptions to International Law: Systematic Legal Analysis and Critique of Doctrines that seek to Deny or Reduce the Applicability of Human Rights Norms in the Fight against Terrorism’ 2. Yuval Shany (2011), ‘Human Rights and Humanitarian Law as Competing Legal Paradigms for Fighting Terror’ 3. Helen Duffy (2008), ‘Human Rights Litigation and the “War on Terror’’’ 4. Antonio Cassese (2006), ‘The Multifaceted Criminal Notion of Terrorism in International Law’ PART II TORTURE 5. Manfred Nowak (2006), ‘What Practices Constitute Torture?: US and UN Standards’ 6. Jens David Ohlin (2010), ‘The Torture Lawyers’ PART III DETENTION AND EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION 7. Doug Cassel (2008), ‘International Human Rights Law and Security Detention’ 8. Margaret L. Satterthwaite (2006), ‘Rendered Meaningless: Extraordinary Rendition and the Rule of Law’ PART IV TARGETED KILLINGS 9. David Kretzmer (2005), ‘Targeted Killing of Suspected Terrorists: Extra-Judicial Executions or Legitimate Means of Defence?’ 10. Nils Melzer (2006), ‘Targeted Killing or Less Harmful Means? – Israel’s High Court Judgment on Targeted Killing and the Restrictive Function of Military Necessity’ PART V FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION 11. David Banisar (2008), Speaking of Terror: A Survey of the Effects of Counter-Terrorism Legislation on Freedom of the Media in Europe 12. Stefan Sottiaux (2009), ‘Leroy v. France: Apology of Terrorism and the Malaise of the European Court of Human Rights’ Free Speech Jurisprudence’ PART VI PROFILING 13. Daniel Moeckli (2006), ‘Terrorist Profiling and the Importance of a Proactive Approach to Human Rights Protection’ 14. David Cole (2002), ‘Enemy Aliens’ PART VII PRIVACY 15. Emanuel Gross (2004), ‘The Struggle of a Democracy Against Terrorism-Protection of Human Rights: The Right to Privacy Versus the National Interest – the Proper Balance’ 16. Ian Brown and Douwe Korff (2009), ‘Terrorism and the Proportionality of Internet Surveillance’ PART VIII TERRORIST LISTINGS 17. Martin Scheinin (2009), ‘Is the ECJ Ruling in Kadi Incompatible with International Law?’ 18. Christian Tomuschat (2009), ‘The Kadi Case: What Relationship is there between the Universal Legal Order under the Auspices of the United Nations and the EU Legal Order?’ 19. Iain Cameron (2003), ‘UN Targeted Sanctions, Legal Safeguards and the European Convention on Human Rights’ PART IX ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS, GENDER ASPECTS AND CAUSES OF TERRORISM 20. Edward Newman (2006), ‘Exploring the “Root Causes” of Terrorism’ 21. Kara Beth Stein (2007), ‘Female Refugees: Re-Victimised by the Material Support to Terrorism Bar’ 22. Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (2011), Extracts from A Decade Lost: Locating Gender in U.S. Counter-Terrorism

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive book offers both an introduction and a critical analysis of enduring themes and issues in the contemporary theory and practice of human rights. Providing a multi-disciplinary analysis, it engages with philosophical, political and social approaches to the subject of human rights.Andrew Fagan argues that the moral authority and practical efficacy of human rights are adversely affected by a range of myths and misunderstandings - from claims regarding the moral status of human rights as a fully comprehensive moral doctrine to the view that the possession of rights is antithetical to recognising the importance of moral duties. The author also examines the claim made by some that human rights ultimately only exists as legal phenomena and that nation-states are inherently hostile to the spirit of human rights. This book will challenge people to reconsider their understanding of human rights as a global moral outlook. This monograph will become essential reading for both postgraduate and undergraduate students interested in the field of human rights. It will also be invaluable to academics, researchers and human rights practitioners involved in the human rights debate.Trade Review'. . . Fagan has made a fine effort identifying several myths and misunderstandings haunting the modern project of human rights.' -- Varro Vooglaid, Finnish Yearbook of International Law'This book is a stimulating read and gives much "food for thought".' -- Sally Ramage, The Criminal Lawyer'This is a thorough and balanced work which examines the philosophical basis of human rights and tackles head on, the most commonly held suspicions and misconceptions - some of them politically motivated and deliberate - of human rights theory. If you specialize professionally or academically in the area of human rights legislation or even practical application, you'd find it useful to read this book. . .' -- Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor, The Barrister'The cause of human rights is powerfully expressed in these pages but equally the credibility gap that such a cause faces given the scale of human suffering in the world. Andrew Fagan offers a robust agenda of thought and action to pursue if we are serious about securing the universal enjoyment of human rights. The book is also an excellent introduction to contemporary philosophical standpoints on both the theory and practice of human rights.' -- Kevin Boyle, University of Essex, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. The Basis and Scope of Human Rights 2. Human Rights and Law’s Domain 3. Universalism and ‘the Other’ 4. Globalisation, Human Rights and the Modern Nation-State 5. Democracy and Human Rights 6. Global Economic Inequalities and Human Rights 7. Accentuating the Positive References Index

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Book SynopsisAlthough Liz McManus never knew her maternal grandparents, by using old family papers, she has pieced together their story. Wallace and Margaret McKay are Unitarian by birth and republican by conviction. It is the start of the twentieth century and hopes for Irish independence are growing. Wallace’s job takes the young couple and their children to North East India, to the tea gardens of Assam, where, before too long, tragedy strikes. Set in two continents, this is a story about an idealistic couple for whom the new Irish Free State, increasingly dominated by the Catholic Church, becomes an alien place. Even within the family, ruptures are caused, so deep they cannot be breached.

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Book SynopsisThe crisis of environmental degradation has createcharemd an immense volume of literature which focuses on controlling environmental problems. Economic Rights and Environmental Wrongs goes one step further to extend and complement the current debates. Using property rights the book examines the causes and possible solutions to environmental and resource degradation. Written in a non-technical, reader-friendly style the book also offers: numerous examples and case studies an up-to-date list of world wide web sites relevant to the subject a detailed glossary of environmental and economic terms a guide to the literature at the end of every chapter Economic Rights and Environmental Wrongs is an essential supplementary text for undergraduates and postgraduates studying environmental and natural resource management, environmental studies, ecology, environmental science, environmental economics, agricultural economics and geography.Trade Review'This is an excellent book, both clearly written and lively . . . We therefore wholeheartedly recommend this book to anyone. . .'Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Environmental Wrongs 2. Externalities and the Environment 3. Property Rights for Pollution 4. Property Rights for Natural Resources 5. Controlling Environmental Degradation without Property Rights 6. Property Rights for the Common Good References Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers a selection of the works of one of the most persuasive and sophisticated theorists of the free economy and the free society, Arthur Asher Shenfield.Arthur Asher Shenfield was a classical liberal and an astute critic of misguided government intervention in a free economy. He produced sophisticated refutations of both full-blooded socialism and the milder varieties of collectivism and welfarism pioneered in Scandinavia and Western Europe. He was a keen observer of American affairs and included here is a selection of his essays on constitutionalism and law in the United States. These essays trace the decline in legal protection that America has given economic agents and examine the rise of socialist influences in the American judiciary system. Shenfield also offers a robust account of the legal and economic effect of US and European anti-trust law, as well as discussing the adverse effect on economic efficiency caused by trade unions.In these essays, Arthur Asher Shenfield has made the law and economics of a free society accessible to businessmen and policymakers as well as to scholars and students of classical liberal philosophy and law.Trade Review'There is far more wisdom on a broad array of subjects to be found in this book than a review can possibly do justice to. Shenfield's writings will prove to be worthwhile reading for anyone who is a friend of liberty.' -- William Peterson, Ideas on Liberty'This remarkable book is an essential read for the specialist, as well as the general reader who wants a really clear account of the law and economics of a free society. . . . this beautifully produced edition must surely go a long way towards achieving the recognition which is so much his due. . . . Arthur Shenfield's stimulating views on competition law alone are enough to make this book an indispensable read.' -- Allister Heath, Economic Affairs'A rare combination of the scholar and practitioner, learned in both law and economics, Arthur Shenfield's writings range widely yet are all illuminated by a deep understanding of the requirements of a free society. A pleaure to read, they can be highly recommended to everyone interested in understanding how to achieve and preserve a free society.' -- Milton Friedman, Hoover Institution, US'Classical liberalism needs more barristers like Arthur Asher Shenfield, who was a genuine master in the give-and-take of oral argument. It is useful to have his written essays available to those who cannot share his persuasive presence more directly. And, for those of us who remember him, we can read these essays as we listen to Arthur Shenfield in our memory.' -- James M. Buchanan, Center for Study of Public Choice, George Mason University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. A Biography (Charles K. Rowley) Part I: Law, Economy and the State 2. Friedrich A. von Hayek 3. The New Thought of F.A.Hayek 4. Hayek on Law 5. Equality before the Law 6. Must we Abolish the State? 7. The New Deal and the Supreme Court Part II: The Meaning of the Market 8. The Nature of Competition 9. The Economic System – Rules versus Authorities 10. Conservatism and the Liberal Economy 11. Myth and Reality in Anti-trust Part III: Socialism: The Fatal Conceit 12. Myth and Reality in Economic Systems 13. The Failure of Socialism Part IV: Trade Unions: Above the Law 14. The Rise of Trade Union Power in Britain 15. What About the Trade Unions? 16. Unions and National Politics 17. Thatcher’s Reform of Britain’s Labour Unions 18. Big Government, Big Labour and Big Business Part V: The Spirit of Capitalism 19. Capitalism under the Tests of Ethics 20. Sense and Nonsense about the Corporation 21. The Businessman and the Politician 22. The Roots of American Discontent 23. The Ideological War Against Western Society 24. The Ugly Intellectual

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Book SynopsisMajority rules are generally unstable and not binding for future voters, and so are insufficient for the required security of a market economy. In this challenging book, Peter Moser argues that stability can be achieved by democratic political institutions limiting the influence of majorities.Peter Moser examines the contribution to stable policy choices of a wide range of political institutions including constitutional rules, the organizational structure of legislatures and administrative and judicial procedures. He contributes new insights about the importance of decision rules in democracies by combining theory with empirical studies. He analyses legislative procedures in the US, the European Union and Switzerland, tests a novel explanation for central bank independence, discusses the implications of political decision rules for regulatory behavior, and provides a concise survey of recent critical research on democratic institutions.This book will be particularly welcomed by public choice scholars as well as other economists and political scientists interested in the role of democratic institutions.Trade Review'. . . a rich introduction to the spatial voting literature and to comparative institutional analysis - as well as a cogent statement that, indeed, institutions matter. . . . The book is notable in its eclecticism and thoroughness; it will have the rare appeal to both political scientists and economists in both Europe and America. Moreover, the exposition is careful and the mechanics of spatial social choice analysis are made clear, so it is suitable for some applied classroom use.' -- Edward J. LOpez, Public Choice'The Political Economy of Democratic Institutions provides a first rate insight into the area of economic analysis of democratic institutions with respect to their policy choices and regulatory behaviour. The book not only provides intriguing insights for anyone interested in the political economy of democratic institutions it also, and more importantly, lays out what appears to be a promising research agenda for analysts of public policy in general.' -- Friedrich Schneider, University of Linz, Austria'The public choice literature has for many years been dominated by North American scholars with a natural interest in North American political institutions. This interesting book is a welcome break with this tradition. It nicely applies the tools of public choice to analyse the consequences of several different types of political institutions in Europe. The book combines rigour and relevance, and should be of interest for scholars on both sides of the Atlantic.' -- Dennis C. Mueller, Universitat Wien, AustriaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Part I: Legislative Institutions and Public Policy: A Survey of the Literature 2. Collective Decisions under Simple Majority Rules 3. Institutional Constraints and Stability 4. Legislative Institutions and Policy Choices: Selected Applications Part II: Institutions and Stability: Checks and Balances in the Swiss Political System 5. A Model of Legislative Decisions 6. A Model of Constitutional Decisions 7. Uncertainty and Interest Groups Part III: Institutions and Policy Choice: The Conditional Influence of the European Parliament 8. Strategic Interactions in Legislative Procedures in the European Union 9. Case Study on Car Emission Standards Part IV: Institutions and Regulatory Behavior: Checks and Balances as a Prerequisite for Independent Central Banks 10. Legislative Choice of the Monetary Institution 11. Legislative Structure and Central Bank Independence Epilogue: Markets, Checks and Balances, and Commitments References Index

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Book SynopsisWhy does it matter that nations should care for their archives, and that they should develop a sense of shared identity? And why should these processes take place in the public domain? How can nations possibly speak about a shared sense of identity in pluralistic societies where individuals and groups have multiple identities? And how can such conversations be given relevance in public discussions of reconciliation and development in South Africa? These are the issues that the Public Conversations lecture series - an initiative of the Constitution of Public Intellectual Life Project at Wits University - proceeded from in 2006. Five years later, cross currents in contemporary South Africa have made the resumption of a public debate to clarify the meanings of identity and citizenship even more imperative, and an understanding of 'archive' even more urgent. The 2006 lectures were subsequently collected, resulting in this volume which takes its title from Weber's point, elaborated on in the chapter by Benedict Anderson that the future asks us to be worthy ancestors to the yet unborn. The title, as did the lecture series, aims to reach a broad and informed reading public because the topic is still of pressing interest in contemporary public discourse. In a changed (and, some might say, degraded) environment of public dialogue, the editor hopes to inspire a re-thinking of the very essence of what it means to be a citizen of South Africa. Becoming worthy ancestors aims to make accessible the theoretically informed, sometimes highly academic work of its various contributors. With chapters from high profile international and local contributors, it will be of interest to South African and international audiences. Editing for publication has further enhanced the accessibility of each speaker's thinking without forfeiting any of its complexity, and the addition of an introductory chapter by the editor contributes to the coherence of the volume. While the target audience is the broad public, the book is based on a core of academic thinking and research.Table of ContentsEvidentiary genocide: intersections of race, power and the archive. The transmission lines of the New African Movement. Some do contest the assertion that I am an African. Africa in Europe, Egypt in Greece. Unconquered and insubordinate: embracing black feminist intellectual activist legacies. Identity, politics and the archive. The goodness of nations. Why archive matters: archive, public deliberation and citizenship.

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