Review Essays
Topical Foci: International Law & Human Rights
China's Cautious Participation in the UN Human Rights Regime by Greg Moore
China, the United Nations, and Human Rights: The Limits of Compliance. By Ann Kent. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. 336pp.
Now We Know About Pinochet, but Where Do We Go from Here? by Gerald Robert Pace
Chile Under Pinochet: Uncovering the Truth by Mark Ensalaco. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. 296pp.
Capitalizing on Market Reforms: Facets of Legal Development in Contemporary China By Stefanie Elbern
Law and Justice in China’s New Marketplace by Ronald C. Keith and Zhiqiu Lin. New York: Palgrave, 2001. 315pp.
Profits and Principles: Global Capitalism and Human Rights in China by Michael A. Santoro. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000. 256pp.
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.
Ethnic Groups and International Law: A Status Report on International Legal Personality at the Beginning of the New Century By Steven Schneebaum
International Law and Ethnic Conflict edited by David Wippman. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998. 368pp.
Cosmopolitan Law—and Cruelty—on Trial By Matthew S. Weinert
Law against Genocide: Cosmopolitan Trials by David Hirsh. London: Cavendish/Glasshouse, 2003. 183pp.
Internationally-Protected Human Rights: Fact or Fiction? By Paul J. Magnarella
Theory and Reality in the International Protection of Human Rights by J. Shand Watson. Ardsley, New York: Transnational Publishers, 1999. 340pp.
The Mobilization of Shame: A World View of Human Rights by Robert F. Drinan, S.J. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. 256pp.
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.
Politics and International Justice in a World of States By J. Peter Pham
War Crimes and Realpolitik: International Justice from World War I to the 21st Century by Jackson Nyamuya Maogoto. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004. 267 pp.
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.
“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.
Human Rights Investigation and Dialogue By Bronwyn Leebaw
Shattered Voices: Language, Violence, and the Work of Truth Commissions by Teresa Godwin Phelps. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. 180pp.
International Citizens’ Tribunals: Mobilizing Public Opinion to Advance Human Rights by Arthur Jay Klinghofer and Judith Apter Klinghofer. New York, NY: Palgrave, 2002. 272pp.
The Promise and Limitations of International Human Rights Activism By Rebecca Evans
Breaking Silence: The Case that Changed the Face of Human Rights by Richard Alan White. Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2004. 320pp.
An American Tragedy: The Decline of U.S. Unionism and its Human Rights Implications By Peter Zwiebach
Unfair Advantage: Workers' Freedom of Association in the United States under International Human Rights Standards by Lance Compa. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. 220pp.
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.
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.
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.
“I’m just talking about the law”: Guantánamo and the Lawyers By Marten Zwanenburg
Guantánamo: The War on Human Rights by David Rose. New York: The New Press, 2004.
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.
The Ethics of Torture By Rebecca Evans
Torture: Does It Make Us Safer? Is It Ever OK? A Human Rights Perspective. Edited by Kenneth Roth and Mindy Worden. New York: The New Press, 2005. 201 pp.
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