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“maarten van craen”

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  • Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice

    Crimes, Courts, Commissions, and Chronicling

    by Nanci Adler, Vladimir Petrovic, William A. Schabas, Jeremy Sarkin, Stephan Parmentier, Mina Rauschenbach, Maarten van Craen, Richard Ashby Wilson, Thijs B Bouwknegt, Nicole L Immler0, Christian Axboe Nielsen1, Timothy Williams2, Kjell Anderson3 ...
    Series series Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
    Since the 1980s, an array of legal and non-legal practices—labeled Transitional Justice—has been developed to support post-repressive, post-authoritarian, and post-conflict societies in dealing with their traumatic past. In Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice, the contributors analyze the processes, products, and efficacy of a number of transitional justice mechanisms and look at how ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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    Essays and Lectures, 1969-2013

    by Noam Chomsky ...
    Essays that reflect the changing climate of the United States and the world from "perhaps the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet" ( The New York Times Book Review).In this collection of essays from 1969 to 2013, many in book form for the first time, Noam Chomsky examines the nature of state power, from the ideologies driving the Cold War to the War on Terror, and reintroduces ... Read more

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  • Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction

    by Andrew Clapham ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Today it is usually not long before a problem gets expressed as a human rights issue. An appeal to human rights in the face of injustice can be a heartfelt and morally justified demand for some, while for others it remains merely an empty slogan. Taking an international perspective and focusing on highly topical issues such as torture, arbitrary detention, privacy, health and discrimination, this ... Read more

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  • Demanding the Impossible

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Where are we today and what is to be done? Slavoj Zizek ponders these questions in this unique and timely book. Based on live interviews, the book captures Zizek at his irrepressible best, elucidating such topics as the uprisings of the Arab Spring, the global financial crisis, populism in Latin America, the rise of China and even the riddle of North Korea. Zizek dazzles readers with his analyses ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Crimes Against Humanity

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Adam Jones ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    How we can stop the world's worst atrocitiesIn this compelling overview, Adam Jones outlines the history and current extent of key crimes against humanity, and highlights the efforts of popular movements to suppress them. Using examples ranging from the genocides in Darfur and Rwanda to the sex trade of Eastern Europe and the use of torture in the 'war on terror,' Jones explores the progress made ... Read more

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  • The Endtimes of Human Rights

    by Stephen Hopgood ...
    "We are living through the endtimes of the civilizing mission. The ineffectual International Criminal Court and its disastrous first prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, along with the failure in Syria of the Responsibility to Protect are the latest pieces of evidence not of transient misfortunes but of fatal structural defects in international humanism. Whether it is the increase in deadly attacks on ... Read more

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  • Between Vengeance and Forgiveness

    Facing History after Genocide and Mass Violence

    by Martha Minow ...
    The rise of collective violence and genocide is the twentieth century's most terrible legacy. Martha Minow, a Harvard law professor and one of our most brilliant and humane legal minds, offers a landmark book on our attempts to heal after such large-scale tragedy. Writing with informed, searching prose of the extraordinary drama of the truth commissions in Argentina, East Germany, and most notably ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Frontier Justice

    The Global Refugee Crisis and What To Do About It

    by Andy Lamey ...
    Frontier Justice is a gripping, eye-opening exploration of the world-wide refugee crisis. Combining reporting, history and political philosophy, Andy Lamey sets out to explain the story behind the radical increase in the global number of asylum-seekers, and the effects of North America and Europe’s increasing unwillingness to admit them.He follows the extraordinary efforts of a set of Yale law ... Read more

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  • Are Women Human?

    And Other International Dialogues

    by Catharine A. MacKinnon ...
    More than half a century after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights defined what a human being is and is entitled to, Catharine MacKinnon asks: Are women human yet? If women were regarded as human, would they be sold into sexual slavery worldwide; veiled, silenced, and imprisoned in homes; bred, and worked as menials for little or no pay; stoned for sex outside marriage or burned within it; ... Read more

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  • Genocide since 1945

    by Philip Spencer ...
    Series series The Making of the Contemporary World
    In 1948 the United Nations passed the Genocide Convention. The international community was now obligated to prevent or halt what had hitherto, in Winston Churchill’s words, been a "crime without a name", and to punish the perpetrators. Since then, however, genocide has recurred repeatedly. Millions of people have been murdered by sovereign nation states, confident in their ability to act with ... Read more

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  • Holocaust and Genocide Denial

    A Contextual Perspective

    Edited by Paul Behrens, Olaf Jensen, Nicholas Terry ...
    This book provides a detailed analysis of one of the most prominent and widespread international phenomena to which criminal justice systems has been applied: the expression of revisionist views relating to mass atrocities and the outright denial of their existence. Denial poses challenges to more than one academic discipline: to historians, the gradual disappearance of the generation of ... Read more

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  • Power in the Changing Global Order

    The US, Russia and China

    by Martin A. Smith ...
    Power has been compared to the weather: people discuss it all the time, but very few really understand it. This book seeks to demystify this complex concept by providing students with an incisive and engaging introduction to the shifting configurations of power in the contemporary global order.Drawing on the work of leading international relations scholars, philosophers and sociologists, the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD