Book Notes

2009 Book Notes

 

  1. Kathie Barrett on The Global Justice Movement: Cross-National and Transnational Perspectives edited by Donatella Della Porta. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2007. 278pp.
  2. Marten Zwanenburg on International Peacekeeping edited by Boris Kondoch. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. 578pp.
  3. Dr. James Pattison on Waging Humanitarian War: The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention by Eric A. Heinze. Albany: SUNY Press, 2009. 224pp.
  4. Dr. Stephen James on Human Rights at the UN: The Political History of Universal Justice by Roger Normand & Sarah Zaidi. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 2008. 486pp.
  5. Lanse Minkler on Human Rights and Structural Adjustment by Rodwan Abouharb and David Cingranelli. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 276pp.
  6. "The Responsibility to Protect: A Policy Forum"

    Editor's Preface     by Sarah Bania-Dobyns

    Chair's Introduction by Kathy Gockel

    Prevention without Hard Power: Mission Impossible? by Kyle Matthews

    • A review of "The Responsibility to Prevent: A Report to Congress
      from the Friends Committee on National Legislation"
    Military Action: The Beginning, Not the End by Major Jodi Vittori

    • A review of "The Impossible Mandate? Military Preparedness, the
      Responsibility to Protect and Modern Peace Operations"
    Why Political Will is Not Enough by Kathy Gockel

    • A review of Preventing Genocide: A Blueprint for US Policymakers
  7. Rebecca Root on Banning Landmines: Disarmament, Citizen Diplomacy, and Human Security edited by Jody Williams, Stephen D. Goose and Mary Wareham. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008. 348pp.
  8. Josiah Marineau on Housing, Land, and Property Restitution Rights of Refugees and Displaced Persons: Laws, Cases, and Materials edited by Scott Leckie (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007). 592pp.
  9. Jessica Burley on Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles by Richard Dowden. New York: Public Affairs, 2009. 592 pp.
  10. Dr. Joyce Apsel on To Plead Our Own Cause: Personal Stories by Today's Slaves edited by Kevin Bales and Zoe Trodd. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008. 260pp.
  11. Nigel Parsons on Israel’s Occupation by Neve Gordon. Berkley, CA: University of California Press, 2008. 318pp.
  12. David P. Forsythe on The Liberal Project and Human Rights: The Theory and Practice of a New World Order by John Charvet and Elisa Kaczynska-Nay. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 446pp.
  13. Elisabeth King on Genocide: Truth, Memory and Representation edited by A. L. Hinton & K. L. O'Neill. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. 352pp.
  14. Eric K. Leonard on The Future of Human Rights: US Policy for a New Era edited by William F. Schulz. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. 314pp.
  15. Tahira Khan on Wives, Widows, Concubines: The Conjugal Family Ideal in Colonial India by Mytheli Sreenivas. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2008. 169pp.
  16. Mahmood Monshipouri on Political Participation in the Middle East edited by Ellen Lust-Okar & Saloua Zerhouni. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008. 286pp.

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