Working Papers
Working Papers Archive
72. The Right to Food under Hugo Chávez by Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann
71. The Ethics Of ‘Responsibility While Protecting’: BRAZIL, The Responsibility To Protect, And Guidelines For Humanitarian Intervention by Dr James Pattison
70. Corruption and Human Rights: Exploring the Relationships by Berihun Adugna Gebeye
69. European Chemicals Agency and Good Governance by BJÖRN ÞÓR RÖGNVALDSSON & KONSTANTINOS G. MARGARITIS
68. Reconsidering the Right to Own Property by Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann*
*Final version is published in Journal of Human Rights, vol. 12, no.2, 2013
67. Engendering Haiti’s Reconstruction: The Legal and Economic Case for Mainstreaming Women in Post-Disaster Programming by Jennifer S. Rosenberg
Keywords: Haiti, gender mainstreaming, development, post-disaster, women’s rights, reconstruction.
66. Women in Afghanistan: A Human Rights Tragedy Ten Years after 9/11 by Hayat Alvi
Keywords: Afghanistan, Women, Human Rights, Maternal Health, Misogyny, Taliban, Northern Alliance, NATO, UN.
65. European Union accession to the European Convention on Human Rights: an institutional “marriage”by Konstantinos G. Margaritis
Keywords: EU accession to ECHR, ECHR institutions, judicial relations among members of ECHR, human rights in Europe.
64. Human Rights, Health Sector Abuse and Corruption by Brigit Toebes
Keywords: health sector abuse and corruption, access to healthcare, health rights.
62. Human Rights Education in Peace-building: A Look at Where the Practice Has Come from, and Where It Needs to Head by Tracey Holland
Keywords: human rights education; peace-building; democratization; conflict resolution.
61. In Search of an "Action Principle" by Patrick J. Glen.
Keywords: responsibility to protect, international criminal law, United Nations Security Council, unilateralism, multilateralism.
60. Tunisia–The Imprisonment of Fahem Boukadous (Part One of a series) by Rob Prince
Keywords: human rights; Tunisia.
59. Teaching Notes: Rights and Rebuilding in El Salvador by Elaine K. Denny & Susan Waltz
Keywords: El Salvador; Truth Commission; transitional justice; economic social and cultural rights; post-conflict development; peace process.
58. Rights and Rebuilding in El Salvador: A Case Study in Two Parts by Elaine K. Denny & Susan Waltz
Keywords: El Salvador; Truth Commission; transitional justice; economic social and cultural rights; post-conflict development; peace process.
57. Necessary Fictions: Indigenous Claims and the Humanity of Rights by Peter Fitzpatrick
Keywords: fictions; humanity; indigenous rights.
56. The Principled Case for Employing Private Military and Security Companies in Humanitarian Interventions and Peacekeeping by Deane-Peter Baker and James Pattison
Keywords: private military and security companies;, humanitarian intervention; peacekeeping; soldier-state contract; conscription; fiduciary obligations.
55. Repression and Punishment in North Korea: Survey Evidence of Prison Camp Experiences by Stephen Haggard and Marcus Noland
Keywords: North Korea; prison camps; political repression; refugees.
54. A Human Rights-Oriented Approach to Military Operations by Federico Sperotto.
Keywords: Military operations; self-defense; proportionality.
53. The Responsibility to Protect: Three Pillars and Four Crimes by Heraldo Muñoz.
Keywords:Responsibility to Protect; R2P; implementation; humanitarian intervention; genocide; war crimes; ethnic cleansing.
52. Customary Law and Human Rights in Botswana by Dr. Rekha A. Kumar.
Keywords: Customary law; Botswana; democracy; international instruments; domestic application; chieftainship; gender issues.
51. Intent: Ius In Bello Norms in Just War Theory The Case of the War in Gaza in 2009 by Howard Adelman.
Keywords: Ius in Bello; Just War Theory; Gaza; Israel; 2009 war; international ethics.
50. Darfur, In Search of Peace: Exploring Viable Solutions to the Darfur Crisis by Dr. George Shepherd, Dr. Peter Van Arsdale, Negin Sobhani, Nicole Tanner & Frederick Agyeman-Duah.
Keywords: Darfur; African perspectives; consultations in peace; Africa Today Associates, Inc.
49. A Holistic Approach for Promoting the Rule of Law by Josef Bucher.
Keywords: rule of law, globalization, institutions, legitimacy, legal theory, civil society
48. The International Security Presence in Kosovo and the Protection of Human Rights by Federico Sperotto.
Keywords: KFOR; peacekeeping
47. Law in Times of War: the Case of Chechnya by Dr. Federico Sperotto
Keywords: internal armed conflict; right to life; emergency powers
46. Can Historical Institutionalism Resolve the Limits of the “Many Hands” Dilemma?: Institutional Accountability through the EU’s and the IMF’s Codes of Conduct by Sarah Bania-Dobyns *
Keywords: EU; accountability; "Many Hands"; ethics; historical institutionalism
45. Who Intervenes and Why it Matters: The Problem of Agency in Humanitarian Intervention by Eric A. Heinze *
Keywords: humanitarian Intervention; agency; consequentialism; Darfur
44. Accommodating Indigenous Peoples within the Human Rights Regime:
The Case of Awas Tingni v. Nicaragua by Amy E. Eckert
Keywords: indigenous peoples; communitarianism; liberalism; land rights; Inter-American Human Rights System
43. U.S. Policy on Small Arms Transfers: A Human Rights Perspective by Susan Waltz (Revised October 13, 2007).
Keywords: U.S. arms transfer policy; small arms and light weapons; SALW; humanitarian catastrophes; war on terror; arms embargoes; Arms Trade Treaty
42. Human Rights Education: The Third Leg of Post-Conflict/Transitional
Justice by David E. Guinn JD, PhD
Keywords: post-conflict justice; transitional justice; human rights
education; retributive justice; compensatory justice; restorative justice;
truth and reconciliation
41. Violations of Human Rights during Military Operations in Chechnya by Dr. Federico Sperotto
Keywords: right to life; internal armed conflict; public emergency;
distinction; proportionality; indiscriminate attack
* Presented by the International Ethics section of ISA as Collective Responsibility in International Relations, at the 2007 ISA Convention in Chicago, IL
39. Historical Background: Evolution of the International Criminal Law,
Individual Criminal Accountability and the Idea of A Permanent International
Court by Cenap Cakmak.
Keywords: international criminal law; international criminal court (ICC);
evolution of the idea of ICC; state sovereignty
38. Beyond Bankovic: Extraterritorial Application of the European Convention
on Human Rights by Federico Sperotto.
Keywords: territorial jurisdiction; extraterritorial act; European legal space;
overall effective control; personal jurisdiction
37. (Not Yet) Taking Rights Seriously: The House of Lords in Belgium v. Headteacher and Governors of Denbigh High School by Gareth Davies.
Keywords: freedom of religion; freedom of expression; freedom of speech;
United Kingdom; Europe; church and state; secularity; education and religion;
Islam
36. Labor’s Human Rights: A Review of the Nature and Status of Core Labor Rights as Human Rights by Roy J. Adams.
Keywords: core labor rights; collective bargaining; unions; child labor;
forced labor; freedom of association; employment discrimination
35. Child Labor through a Human Rights Glass Brightly by Burns H. Weston
and Mark B. Teerink.
Keywords: child labor; children's rights; child empowerment; human dignity; sovereignty; international law; international labor organization; ILO; UNICEF
33. The Relative Universality of Human Rights (Revised) by Jack Donnelly.
Keywords: universality; cultural relativism; theory; history; law
32. Is Humanity Enough? The Secular Theology of Human Rights by Peter Fitzpatrick.
Keywords: humanity and the human; death of God; secular theology; universality; liberations
30. International Agenda-Setting in World Politics: Issue Emergence and Non-Emergence Around Children and Armed Conflict by R. Charli Carpenter.
Keywords: children, armed conflict, sexual violence, norms, networks,
agenda-setting
28. Hijacked Justice: Domestic Appropriation of International Norms by Jelena Suboti.
Keywords: international norms, transitional justice, international justice, international norm diffusion
27. When Domestic Resistance Outweighs International Influence: The Struggle for Human Rights and Democracy in Kenya 1987-2002 by Robert Press.*
26. The United States and Economic and Social Rights: Past, Present...and
Future? by Daniel J. Whelan.*
25. State Compliance with Human Rights Norms: The Importance of
International Reputation for Guiding State Action by Jennifer Ramos and Dana Zartner Falstrom.*
24. Aiding Whom? Competing Explanations of Middle-Power Foreign Aid
Decisions by Bethany A. Barrat.*
23. Human Rights (entry in the Oxford Handbook of Political Theory, forthcoming 2006) by Jack Donnelly.
Keywords: human rights definitions, sources, history, theoretical controversies, justice and politics
22. International Humanitarianism in the Contemporary World: Forms and Issues by David P. Forsythe.
Keywords: Sovereignty, war and political conflict, history, International Committee of the Red Cross, United Nations and humanitarianism
* Presented as a Foreign Policy Goal: Rhetoric, Realism and Results, in the 2005 ISA Convention in Honolulu, Hawaii.
21. Human Rights and State Sovereignty by Jack Donnelly.
Keywords: Sovereignty, intervention, Westphalia, genocide
20. Human Rights and the Neo-Conservative Project: What's Not to Like?
by Tom J. Farer.
Keywords: George W. Bush, US Foreign Policy, American Hegemony, Neoconservatism, Iraq
19. Respecting, Protecting and Fulfilling Economic and Social Human Rights:
A UN Economic Security Council? by William Felice.
Keywords: United Nations, Economic and Social Rights, Poverty, International Organizations
18. A More Original Position: Toleration in John Rawls' Law of Peoples by Amy Eckert.
Keywords: International Law, Hegemony, Morality and Power
15. Laborious Law by Bas de Gaay Fortman.
Keywords: Political Economy, Legal Philosophy, Principles of Justice, Law, Morality and Power
12. The Universal Declaration Model of Human Rights: A Liberal Defense by Jack Donnelly.
Keywords: Universal Declaration, Liberalism, Overlapping Consensus, Group Rights, Minorities, the State
9. Swallowing Injustice to Build Community: Latin America After the Era of State Terror by Tom J. Farer.
Keywords: Latin America, Democratic Transitions, State Terror, (In)justice, Community, Argentina, Guatemala
6. A Structural-cyclic Model of Development in Human Rights by Wolfgang Dietrich.
Keywords: Theory, History, Peace, Universality, Capitalism, Deconstruction, Societal Time