Volume 5 (2005)
By Kara Martinez
Violence Workers: Police Torturers and Murderers Reconstruct Brazilian Atrocities by Martha K. Huggins, Mika Haritos-Fatouros, and Philip G. Zimbardo. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002. 293 pp.
Keywords: systematic torture; institutionalized violence; atrocity workers; accountability; police and military institutions
Globalizing Democracy or Democratizing Globalism?
By Matthew S. Weinert
Transnational Democracy: Political Spaces and Border Crossings edited by James Anderson. London: Routledge, 2002. 224pp.
Keywords: transnational; globalization; democracy; democratization
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.
Keywords: africa, democratization, development, international law, state-building
“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.
Keywords: critical theory, humanitarian intervention, postcolonial, international legal theory
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.
Keywords: world governance; westphalia; hague; terrorism; superpowers; rules versus force; resolution 1441; uniting for peace resolution; international court of justice; icj; intervention
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.
Keywords: truth commissions; reconciliation; justice
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.
Keywords: breaking silence; filartiga; richard white; paraguay; international advocacy networks; alien tort claims act
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.
Keywords: labor rights; labor unions; unions; work; workers; workplace; organize; organizing
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.
Keywords: Aryeh Neier; ACLU; Inter-American Commission on Human Rights; Latin America; democratization; international law
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.
Keywords: indigenous peoples; self-determination; ethnic identity; international law
Human Rights and Globalization: Is the Shrinking World Expanding Rights?
By Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat
The Globalization of Human Rights. Edited by Jean-Marc Coicaud, Michael W. Doyle, and Anne-Marie Gardner. Tokyo : United Nations University Press, 2003.
Globalization and Human Rights. Edited by Alison Brysk. Berkely: University of California Press, 2002.
Keywords: globalization; inequality; power
