Book Notes

Recently Received Books: Regional Focus on Europe & the West

 

Rebuilding Native Nations: Strategies for Governance and Development

Rebuilding Native Nations: Strategies for Governance
and Development
Edited by Miriam Jorgensen

Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press. 2007. 363pp.

*Cross-listed in Global Civil Society
& Democracy, Development & Health

Women Migrants from East to West

Women Migrants from East to West:
Gender, Mobility and Belonging in Contemporary Europe
Edited by Luisa Passerini, Dawn Lyon, Enrica Capussotti
& Ioanna Laliotou

New York, NY: Berghahn Books. 2007. 335pp.

*Cross-listed in Women, Children & Gender
Migration and Refugee Law: Principles and Practice in Australia

Migration and Refugee Law:
Principles and Practice in Australia
By John Vrachnas, Kim Boyd, Mirko Bagaric & Penny Dimopoulos

New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. 2008. 336pp.

*Cross-listed in Refugees & Displaced Persons
Learning from Greensboro: Truth and Reconciliation in the United States

Learning from Greensboro: Truth and
Reconciliation in the United States
By Lisa Magarrell & Joya Wesley

Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2008. 276pp.

*Cross-listed in Religion, Race, Ethnicity & Culture
& Theory, Philosophy & History

Optimal Protection of International Law: Navigating between European Absolutism and American Voluntarism

Optimal Protection of International Law: Navigating between
European Absolutism and American Voluntarism
By Joost Pauwelyn

New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. 2008. 238pp.

*Cross-listed in International Law & Ethics
White But Not Equal: Mexican Americans, Jury Discrimination, and the Supreme Court

White But Not Equal: Mexican Americans,
Jury Discrimination, and the Supreme Court
By Ignacio M. García

Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press. 2009. 239pp.

*Cross-listed in Regional: Latin America
& International Law & Ethics

Peace Support Operations: Nordic Perspectives

Peace Support Operations: Nordic Perspectives
Edited by Eli Stamnes

New York, NY: Routledge. 2008. 130pp.

The Cultural Politics of Human Rights: Comparing the US and UK

The Cultural Politics of Human Rights:
Comparing the US and UK
By Kate Nash

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 2009. 209pp.

*Cross-listed in Religion, Race, Ethnicity & Culture
Strategic US Foreign Assistance: The Battle Between Human Rights and National Security

Strategic US Foreign Assistance:
The Battle Between Human Rights and National Security
By Rhonda L. Callaway & Elizabeth G. Matthews

Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing. 2008. 219pp.

*Cross-listed in Democracy, Development & Health
& Globalization, Labor & Economic Rights

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