Review Essays
Topical Foci: Democracy & Human Rights
Democratization and Human Rights: Affinity or Tension? by Sharon Healey
Democratization and the Protection of Human Rights: Challenges and Contradictions. Edited by Patricia J. Campbell and Kathleen Mahoney-Norris. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998. 140pp.
Publish Not Punish: The Contested Truth of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission by Todd Landman
After the TRC: Reflections on Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa, Wilmot James and Linda van de Vijver, Editors. Athens: Ohio University Press and Cape Town: David Philip Publishers, 2000. 228pp.
Looking Back, Reaching Forward: Reflections on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa , Charles Villa-Vicencio and Wilhelm Verwoerd, Editors. Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press and London: Zed Books, 2000. 322pp.
Horror Unmasked: Truth or Fiction? by Lars Buur and Eric Harper
A Country Unmasked: Inside South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission by Alex Boraine. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 448pp.
Opening the Dichotomy of Universalism and Relativism by Chih-yu Shih
Negotiating Culture and Human Rights edited by Linda S. Bell, Andrew J. Nathan and Ilan Peleg. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. 428pp.
East Meets West: Human Rights and Democracy in East Asia by Daniel A. Bell. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. 369pp.
Between God and Democracy by Andrew Fagan
Understanding Human Rights Principles edited by Jeffrey Jowell and Jonathan Cooper. Portland, OR: Hart Publishers, 2001. 201pp.
The Idea of Human Rights: Four Inquiries by Michael J. Perry. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 162pp.
Addressing Fundamentalism by Legal and Spiritual Means by Dan Wessner
Religion and Humane Global Governance by Richard Falk. New York: Palgrave, 2001. 191pp.
Gender and Human Rights in Islam and International Law: Equal Before Allah, Unequal Before Man? by Shaheen Sardar Ali. The Hague: Klewer Law International, 2000. 358pp.
Religious Fundamentalisms and the Human Rights of Women edited by Courtney W. Howland. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999. 326 pp.
The Islamic Quest for Democracy, Pluralism, and Human Rights by Ahmad S. Moussalli. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001. 226 pp.
Law, Human Rights, Realism and the “War on Terror” by J. Peter Pham
The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror by Michael Ignatieff. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. 212 pp.
Globalizing Democracy or Democratizing Globalism? by Matthew S. Weinert
Transnational Democracy: Political Spaces and Border Crossings edited by James Anderson. London: Routledge, 2002. 224pp.
Legitimacy, Justice, and the Future of Africa by J. Peter Pham
Human Rights, the Rule of Law, and Development in Africa edited by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza and Philip J. McConnaughay. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. 308 pp.
A Life in the Realm of Rights: A Man and a Movement's History By Tom J. Farer
Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Human Rights by Aryeh Neier. New York: PublicAffairs. 400pp.
The Limits of Intervention—Humanitarian or Otherwise By J. Peter Pham
The Dark Sides of Virtue: Reassessing International Humanitarianism by David Kennedy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. 400 pp.
At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention by David Rieff. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. 288 pp.
How to Recapture Human Rights within the Political: Validating the Discourse Theory Approach By Magdalena Zolkos
Human Rights and Democracy: Discourse Theory and Global Rights Institutions by Eva Erman. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. 243 pp.
Beyond Power Politics: International Law and Human Rights Discourse in the Post-9/11 World By J. Peter Pham
Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law by Antony Anghie. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 356 pp.
Exploring Universal Rights: A Symposium Contributors: Jamie Mayerfeld, Brooke Ackerly, Henry Shue, Jack Donnelly, Kok-Chor Tan, and Charles Beitz
Which Rights Should Be Universal? by William J. Talbott . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2005. 232pp.
The Universality of Human Rights: A Response By William J. Talbott
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