Book Notes

Current Notes

1. 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.
2. 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.
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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

Archive of 2009 Book Notes

In addition to our thematic essays, Human Rights & Human Welfare also publishes Book Notes. These brief pieces (i.e., 500-750 words) are intended to provide the busy reader a thorough annotation of the contents of recently published materials, including the reviewer's assessment of the audiences that would benefit most from the material, its contribution to the field, and its overall usefulness and readability.

The Editors have chosen a number of titles that we have recently received from publishers for review as Book Notes. We would also like to encourage our readership to consider writing a Book Note covering any of a number of recently published reports and other materials.

The Editors also encourage unsolicited Notes, as long as we do not anticipate a review essay or book note on the same material. Send these directly to Editor Raslan Ibrahim.