Review Essays

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Human Rights & Human Welfare has commissioned essays on the following texts. Please visit our Recently Received Titles page to peruse our catalog of titles for which we seek essayists.

 

American Exceptionalism and Human Rights

American Exceptionalism and Human Rights
Edited by Michael Ignatieff

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. 353pp. (DM)

The Impact of Human Rights Law on Armed Forces

The Impact of Human Rights Law on Armed Forces
by Peter Rowe

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 259pp. (MZ)

The Relationship Rights of Children

The Relationship Rights of Children
by James G. Dwyer


New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 364pp. (VN)

Child Labor and Human Rights: Making Children Matter

Child Labor and Human Rights: Making Children Matter
Edited by Burns H. Weston

Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005. 541pp. (VN)

The Ethics of Refugee Policy

The Ethics of Refugee Policy
by Christina Boswell

Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005. 178pp. (JE)

Forced to Flee: Human Rights and Human Wrongs in Refugee Homelands

Forced to Flee: Human Rights and Human Wrongs in
Refugee Homelands
by Peter Van Arsdale

Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006. 240pp. (JE)

The Ethics Of War: Shared Problems In Different Traditions

The Ethics Of War: Shared Problems In Different Traditions
Edited by Richard Sorabji and David Rodin

Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. 253pp. (TN)

Ethics of War: Classic and Contemporary Readings

Ethics of War: Classic and Contemporary Readings
Edited by Henrik Syse, Endre Begby, and Gregory M. Reichberg

Boston, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. 752pp. (TN)

The Ethics of War in Ancient Asia: A Comparative Perspective

The Ethics of War in Ancient Asia: A Comparative Perspective
Edited by Torkel Brekke

Oxford, UK: Taylor and Francis Books, 2005. 211pp. (TN)

Human Rights: Beyond the Liberal Vision

Human Rights: Beyond the Liberal Vision
by Judith Blau and Alberto Moncada

Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005. 205pp.
(DG)

Studying Human Rights

Studying Human Rights
by Todd Landman

New York, NY: Routledge, 2006. 178pp. (DG)

Theories of Rights

Theories of Rights
Edited by C.L. Ten


Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2006. 444 pp. (DG)

Peaceful Resistance: Advancing Human Rights And Democratic Freedoms

Peaceful Resistance: Advancing Human Rights And Democratic
Freedoms
by Robert M. Press

Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2006. 227pp. (AH)

Transnational Protest & Global Activism: People, Passions, and Power

Transnational Protest & Global Activism: People, Passions, and Power
Edited by Donatella Della Porta and Sidney Tarrow


Lanham, MD: Roman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005. 287pp. (AH)

Justice and Violence: Political Violence, Pacifism and Cultural Transformation

Justice and Violence: Political Violence, Pacifism and Cultural
Transformation
Edited by Allan Eickelmann, Eric Nelson and Tom Lansford

Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005. 252pp. (DM)

The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community

The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
by David C. Korten

Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2006. 399pp. (DM)

Innovative Communities: People-centered Approaches to Environmental Management in the Asia-Pacific Region

Innovative Communities: People-centered Approaches to
Environmental Management in the Asia-Pacific Region
Edited by Jerry Valasquez, Makiko Yashiro, Susan Yoshimura
and Izumi Ono

New York, NY: United Nations University Press, 2005. 341pp. (DuMu)

Making Globalization Work

Making Globalization Work
by Joseph E. Stiglitz

New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 2006. 358pp. (DuMu)

The United Nations, Peace and Security

The United Nations, Peace and Security
by Ramesh Thakur

New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 388pp. (CS)

Humanitarian Alert: NGO Information and Its Impact on US Foreign Policy

Humanitarian Alert: NGO Information and Its Impact on US
Foreign Policy

by Abby Stoddard

Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2006. 245pp. (CS)

Peace Operations Seen from Below: UN Missions and Local People

Peace Operations Seen from Below: UN Missions and Local People
by Beatrice Pouligny

Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2006. 295pp. (CS)

Human Security and the U.N.: A Critical History

Human Security and the U.N.: A Critical History
by S. Neil MacFarlane and Yuen Foong Khong

Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006. 346pp. (HR)

From Kosovo to Kabul and Beyond: Human Rights and International Intervention (New Edition)

From Kosovo to Kabul and Beyond: Human Rights and International
Intervention
(New Edition)
by David Chandler


London, UK: Pluto Press, 2006. 290pp. (CO)

Making States Work: State Failure and the Crisis of Governance

Making States Work: State Failure and the Crisis of Governance
Edited by Simon Chesterman, Michael Ignatieff, and Ramesh Thakur

New York, NY: United Nations University Press, 2005. 350pp. (CO)

Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide

Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
by Andrea Smith

Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2005. 245pp. (MP)

Mujeres Ecuatorianas: Entre las crisis y las oportunidades 1990-2004

Mujeres Ecuatorianas: Entre las crisis y las oportunidades
1990-2004.
by Mercedes Prieto

Quito, Ecuador: FLACSO Ecuador, 2005. 380pp. (MP)

Peace Operations Seen from Below: UN Missions and Local People

Peace Operations Seen from Below: UN Missions and Local People
by Beatrice Pouligny

Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2006. 295pp. (CS)

Reconciliation in Divide Societies: Finding Common Ground

Reconciliation in Divide Societies: Finding Common Ground
by Erin Daly and Jeremy Sarkin

Philadelphia, PA : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. 323pp. (ED)

Amnesty After Atrocity?: Healing Nations After Genocide And War
Crimes

by Helena Cobban

Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2006. 296pp. (ED)

Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire

Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire
by Wendy Brown

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. 268pp. (FK)

Globalism, Nationalism, Tribalism Bringing Theory Back in

Globalism, Nationalism, Tribalism Bringing Theory Back in
by Paul W. James

London, UK: Sage Publications, 2006. 362pp. (FK)

The Next Great Globalization:

The Next Great Globalization:
How disadvantaged nations can harness their financial systems to
get rich

by Frederic S. Mishkin

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. 310pp. (GB)

Worlds Apart: Measuring International and Global Inequality
by Branko Milanovic

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. 240pp. (GB)

The WTO and Sustainable Development

The WTO and Sustainable Development
by Gary P. Sampson

New York , NY: United Nations Univeristy Press, 2005. 330pp. (DaMo)

AIDS and the Ecology of Poverty

AIDS and the Ecology of Poverty
by Eileen Stillwaggon

New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2005. 272pp. (RM)

African Constitutionalism and the Role of Islam

African Constitutionalism and the Role of Islam
by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im


Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 199pp. (DA)

International Migration and Global Justice

International Migration and Global Justice
by Satvinder Singh Juss

Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2006. 330pp. (TC)

Turkey's Engagement with Global Women's Human Rights

Turkey's Engagement with Global Women's Human Rights
by Nuket Kardam

Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2005. 197pp. (AK)

Writing Toward Hope: The Literature of Human Rights in
Latin America

by Marjorie Agosin

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006. 672pp. (CT)

Global Justice: The Politics of War Crimes Trials
by Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu

Westport, CT: Praeger Press, 2006. 240pp. (MS)

Designing Criminal Tribunals: Sovereignty And International
Concerns in the Protection of Human Rights

by Steven D. Roper and Lilian A. Barria

Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishers, 2006. 189pp. (MS)

The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence

The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence
By Martin Meredith

New York: PublicAffairs, 2005. 752pp. (PP)

Africa and the War on Terrorism
Edited by John Davis

Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2007. 200pp. (PP)

Hannah Arendt and Human Rights: The Predicament of Common Responsibility

Hannah Arendt and Human Rights: The Predicament of
Common Responsibility
by Peg Birmingham

Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press , 2006. 161pp. (PT)

War Crimes and Just War

War Crimes and Just War
by Larry May

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2007. 343pp. (PT)

 

The Pinochet Effect: Transnational Justice in the Age of Human Rights

The Pinochet Effect: Transnational Justice in the Age of Human Rights
By Naomi Roht-Arriaza

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 256pp. (RE)

Remembering Pinochet's Chile

Remembering Pinochet's Chile: On the Eve of London 1998
By Steve J. Stern

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2006. 247pp. (RE)

Battling for Hearts and Minds: Memory Struggles in Pinochet's Chile, 1973-1988

Battling for Hearts and Minds: Memory Struggles in Pinochet's Chile,
1973-7988

By Steve J. Stern

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2006. 538pp. (RE)

Rights, Groups and Self-Invention

Rights, Groups and Self-Invention
by Eric J. Mitnick

Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2006. 221pp. (SBD)

War in Darfur and the Search for Peace

War in Darfur and the Search for Peace
Edited by Alex de Waal

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. 431pp. (SJ)

Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide, revised and updated edition

Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide, revised and updated edition
By Gerard Prunier

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007. 236pp. (SJ)

Ending Africa's Wars: Progressing to Peace

Ending Africa's Wars: Progressing to Peace
Edited by Oliver Furley & Roy May

Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2006. 247pp. (SJ)

 

That the World May Know: Bearing Witness to Atrocity

That the World May Know: Bearing Witness to Atrocity
By James Dawes

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. 289pp. (LF)

 

We Lived to Tell: Political Prison Memoirs of Iranian Women

We Lived to Tell: Political Prison Memoirs of Iranian Women
By Azadeh Agah, Sousan Mehr & Shadi Parsi

Toronto: McGilligan Books, 2007. 240pp. (LF)

 

The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West and the Fights against AIDS

The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West and the Fight against AIDS
By Helen Epstein

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. 326pp. (DW)

 

Peace Out of Reach

Peace Out of Reach
By Stephen Eric Bronner

Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2007. 208pp. (MK)

 

Peacemakers in Action

Peacemakers in Action
By David Little

New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 524pp. (MK)

 

Friends Indeed? The United Nations, Groups of Friends, and the Resolution of Conflict

Friends Indeed? The United Nations,
Groups of Friends, and the Resolution of Conflict

By Teresa Whitfield

Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 2007. 428pp. (JT)

The Europeanization of the World: On the Origins of Human Rights and Democracy

The Europeanization of the World: On the Origins of Human Rights
and Democracy

By John M. Headley

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. 290pp. (BC)

 

Security Versus Freedom? A Challenge for Europe's Future

Security Versus Freedom? A Challenge for Europe's Future
Edited by Thierry Balzacq & Sergio Carrera

Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2006. 313pp. (BC)

 

Empires of Intelligence: Security Services and Colonial Disorder after 1914

Empires of Intelligence: Security Services and Colonial Disorder
after 1914

By Martin Thomas

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008. 428pp. (JW)

 

Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad

Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad
By Marnia Lazreg

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. 335pp. (JW)

 

Making Sense of Human Rights, Second Edition

Making Sense of Human Rights, Second Edition
by James W. Nickel

Oxford, UK : Blackwell, 2007. 267pp. (DB)

 

Making Human Rights Real

Making Human Rights Real
By Filip Spagnoli

New York, NY: Algora Publishing, 2007. 191pp. (DB)

Toward a Theory of Human Rights: Religion, Law, Courts

Toward a Theory of Human Rights: Religion, Law, Courts
by Michael J. Perry

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2007. 253pp. (DB)

To Save Her Life: Disappearance, Deliverance, and the United States

To Save Her Life: Disappearance, Deliverance, and the United States
in Guatemala

By Dan Saxon

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2007. 306pp. (DF)

 

Guatemalans in the Aftermath of Violence

Guatemalans in the Aftermath of Violence
By Kristi Anne Stølen

Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. 280pp. (DF)

Human Rights at the UN: The Political History of Universal Justice

Human Rights at the UN: The Political History of Universal Justice
By Roger Normand and Sarah Zaidi

Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2008. 486pp. (SJ)

 

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