Review Essays

Recently Received Books: Regional Focus on Europe & the West

 

Asylum Denied: A Refugee's Struggle for Safety in America

Asylum Denied: A Refugee's
Struggle for Safety in America

By David Ngaruri Kenney and Philip G. Schrag

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008. 352pp.

*Cross-listed in Refugees & Displaced Persons
& International Law & Ethics

Understanding U.S. Human Rights Policy: A Paradoxical Legacy

Understanding U.S. Human Rights Policy:
A Paradoxical Legacy

By Clair Apodaca

New York, NY: Routledge, 2006. 231pp.

*Cross-listed in Theory, Philosophy & History

International Justice and Impunity: The Case of the United States

International Justice and Impunity:
The Case of the United States

Edited by Nils Andersson, Daniel Iagolnitzer & Diana G. Collier

Atlanta, GA: Clarity Press, 2008. 298pp.

*Cross-listed in War, War Crimes & Genocide
& Humanitarianism, Intervention & Terrorism

Politics of Ethnic Cleansing: Nation-State Building and Provision of In/Security in Twentieth-Century Balkans

Politics of Ethnic Cleansing: Nation-State Building and
Provision of In/Security in Twentieth-Century Balkans

By Klejda Mulaj

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, 2008. 203pp.

*Cross-listed in War, War Crimes & Genocide

THE EUROPEAN UNION AND TURKISH ACCESSION: Human Rights and the Kurds

The European Union and Turkish Accession:
Human Rights and the Kurds

By Kerim Yildiz & Mark Muller

London, UK: Pluto Press. 2008. 239pp.

*Cross-listed in Religion, Race, Ethnicity & Culture

Brussels Versus the Beltway: Advocacy in the United States and the European Union

Brussels Versus the Beltway:
Advocacy in the United States and the European Union

By Christine Mahoney

Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. 2008. 260pp.

Anthropological Intelligence: The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War

Anthropological Intelligence: The Deployment and
Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War

By David H. Price

Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2008. 370pp.

*Cross-listed in Theory, Philosophy & History

Stolen Honor: Stigmatizing Muslim Men in Berlin

Stolen Honor: Stigmatizing Muslim Men in Berlin
By Katherine Pratt Ewing

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2008. 282pp.

*Cross-listed in Religion, Race, Ethnicity & Culture

Bleached Faith: The Tragic Cost When Religion Is Forced into the Public Square

Bleached Faith: The Tragic Cost
When Religion Is Forced into the Public Square

By Steven Goldberg

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2008. 161pp.

*Cross-listed in Religion, Race, Ethnicity & Culture

Getting By in Postsocialist Romania: Labor, the Body, and Working-Class Culture

Getting By in Postsocialist Romania:
Labor, the Body, and Working-Class Culture

By David A. Kideckel

Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 2008. 266pp.

*Cross-listed in Theory, Philosophy & History

Health Disparities in the United States: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Health

Health Disparities in the United States:
Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Health

By Donald A. Barr, M.D., Ph.D.

Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 2008. 295pp.

* Cross-listed in Development, Democracy & Health

Our Nation Unhinged: The Human Consequences of the War on Terror

Our Nation Unhinged: The Human Consequences
of the War on Terror

By Peter Jan Honigsberg

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 2009. 311pp.

*Cross-listed in War, War Crimes & Genocide
& International Law & Ethics

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