Review Essays
Topical Foci: Humanitarian Crises
The Deconstruction of Refugees and the Reconstruction of History by Peter W. Van Arsdale
States and Strangers: Refugees and Displacements of Statecraft. By Navzat Soguk. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press (Borderlines Series, No. 11), 1999. 328pp.
Explaining Rwanda's 1994 Genocide By Paul Magnarella
When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda by Mahmood Mamdani. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. 364pp.
Genocide in Rwanda: A Collective Memory edited by John A. Berry and Carol Pott Berry. Washington, DC: Howard University Press, 1999. 201pp.
Kosovo and Beyond: Is Humanitarian Intervention Transforming International Society? By Roberto Belloni
The Kosovo Tragedy: The Human Rights Dimensions edited by Ken Booth. Portland: Frank Cass, 2001.
Saving Strangers: Humanitarian Intervention in International Society by Nicholas J. Wheeler. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 352pp.
Searching for Justice in an Unjust World By Sharon Healey
Stay the Hand of Vengeance by Jonathan Gary Bass. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. 368pp.
For Humanity: Reflections of a War Crimes Prosecutor by Richard Goldstone. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. 152pp.
Waging War for Human Rights: Toward a Moral-Legal Theory of Humanitarian Intervention By Eric Heinze
Hard Choices: Moral Dilemmas in Humanitarian Intervention edited by Jonathan Moore. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999. 322pp.
Humanitarian Intervention: Ethical, Legal, and Political Dilemmas edited by J. L. Holzgrefe and Robert O. Keohane. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 350pp.
Cosmopolitan Law—and Cruelty—on Trial By Matthew S. Weinert
Law against Genocide: Cosmopolitan Trials by David Hirsh. London: Cavendish/Glasshouse, 2003. 183pp.
Things & Ideas: Explaining Moral Evolution in International Relations By Amy Eckert
Argument and Change in World Politics: Ethics, Decolonization and Humanitarian Intervention by Neta C. Crawford. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 466pp.
“Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There!” Humanitarian Intervention and the Drowning Stranger By Sundhya Pahuja
Just Intervention edited by Anthony F. Lang Jr. Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2003. 231 pp.
Reading Humanitarian Intervention: Human Rights and the Use of Force in International Law by Anne Orford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 243pp.
Supranationalism and the Superpower Rubicon By Imtiaz Hussain
The Chapter VII Powers of the United Nations Security Council by Erika de Wet. Portland, OR: Hart Publishing, 2004. 413pp.
Protecting Indigenous Peoples By Paul J. Magnarella
The Origins of Indigenism: Human Rights and the Politics of Identity by Ronald Niezen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. 272pp.
Indigenous Peoples and the State: The Struggle for Native Rights by Bradley Reed Howard. Dekalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003. 252pp.
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.
Polemics in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict By Jerome Slater
The Case for Israel by Alan Dershowitz. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2003. 264pp.
Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History by Norman G. Finkelstein. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. 332pp.
Contending Interventions: Coming to Terms with the Practice and Process of Enforcing Compliance By Emilian Kavalski
The Purpose of Intervention: Changing Beliefs about the Use of Force by Martha Finnemore. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. 174pp.
International Intervention in the Post-Cold War World: Moral Responsibility and Power Politics edited by Michael C. Davis, Wolfgang Dietrich, Bettina Scholdan, and Dieter Sepp. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2004. 332pp.
Adolf Eichmann: Understanding Evil in Form and Content By Matthew S. Weinert
Criminal Case 40/61, the Trial of Adolf Eichmann by Harry Mulisch. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.
Noble Human Rights Defender or International Band-Aid? On Contemporary Humanitarianism By Kurt Mills
The Humanitarians: The International Committee of the Red Cross by David P. Forsythe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Making Sense of a Senseless War By J. Peter Pham
A Dirty War in West Africa: The RUF and the Destruction of Sierra Leone by Lansana Gberie. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2005.
Young Soldiers: Why They Choose to Fight by Rachel Brett and Irma Specht. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005.
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.
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