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  • Driven from Home

    Protecting the Rights of Forced Migrants

    de David Hollenbach, Susan F. Martin, Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator, Silvano Tomasi, M. Brinton Lykes, Frank Brennan, Daniel Kanstroom, Arash Abizadeh, Maryanne Loughry, J. Bryan Hehir0, Thomas G. Weiss1, Mary DeLorey2, Christopher Llanos3 ...
    Throughout human history people have been driven from their homes by wars, unjust treatment, earthquakes, and hurricanes. The reality of forced migration is not new, nor is awareness of the suffering of the displaced a recent discovery. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that at the end of 2007 there were 67 million persons in the world who had been forcibly displaced from ... Leer más

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  • Fast Times in Palestine

    A Love Affair with a Homeless Homeland

    de Pamela j. Olson ...
    For much of her life—like many Westerners—most of what Pamela Olson knew of the Middle East was informed by headlines and stereotypes. But when she traveled to Palestine in 2003, she found herself thrown with dizzying speed into the realities of Palestinian life.Fast Times in Palestine is Olson's powerful, deeply moving account of life in Palestine-both the daily events that are universal to us ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Mobilizing for Human Rights

    International Law in Domestic Politics

    de Beth A. Simmons ...
    This volume argues that international human rights law has made a positive contribution to the realization of human rights in much of the world. Although governments sometimes ratify human rights treaties, gambling that they will experience little pressure to comply with them, this is not typically the case. Focusing on rights stakeholders rather than the United Nations or state pressure, Beth ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • A NEW DEAL FOR THE WORLD

    de Elizabeth Borgwardt ...
    In a work of sweeping scope and luminous detail, Elizabeth Borgwardt describes how a cadre of World War II American planners inaugurated the ideas and institutions that underlie our modern international human rights regime. Borgwardt finds the key in the 1941 Atlantic Charter and its Anglo-American vision of "war and peace aims." In attempting to globalize what U.S. planners heralded as domestic ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Universal Rights Down to Earth

    de Richard Thompson Ford ...
    Series series Norton Global Ethics Series
    A path-blazing lesson on how to reconcile lofty human rights ambitions with political and cultural realities.The idea of universal rights—rights shared by all citizens, regardless of nationality, creed, wealth, or geography—has a powerful grip on the way many people feel about justice and global politics. No one should be subjected to torture or disappearance, to starvation or sex trafficking, to ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Weapon of the Strong

    Conversations on US State Terrorism

    Edición de Jon Bailes, Cihan Aksan ...
    The term ‘terrorism’ is often applied exclusively to non-state groups or specific ‘rogue states’. Far less attention is given to state terrorism carried out or sponsored by democracies, most notably the United States. History shows that this state terrorism has been responsible for the deaths of millions of people.Weapon of the Strong analyses the forms of US state terrorism through exclusive, ... Leer más

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  • The Rise and Fall of Human Rights

    Cynicism and Politics in Occupied Palestine

    de Lori Allen ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Human Rights
    The Rise and Fall of Human Rights provides a groundbreaking ethnographic investigation of the Palestinian human rights world—its NGOs, activists, and "victims," as well as their politics, training, and discourse—since 1979. Though human rights activity began as a means of struggle against the Israeli occupation, in failing to end the Israeli occupation, protect basic human rights, or establish an ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Five Rising Democracies

    And the Fate of the International Liberal Order

    de Ted Piccone ...
    Series series Geopolitics in the 21st Century
    Shifting power balances in the world are shaking the foundations of the liberal international order and revealing new fault lines at the intersection of human rights and international security. Will these new global trends help or hinder the world's long struggle for human rights and democracy? The answer depends on the role of five rising democracies-India, Brazil, South Africa, Turkey, and ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • The Last Christians

    Stories of Persecution, Flight, and Resilience in the Middle East

    de Andreas Knapp ...
    Traducido por Sharon Howe ...
    A Westerner’s travels among the persecuted and displaced Christian remnant in Iraq and Syria teach him much about faith under fire.Gold Medal Winner, 2018 IPPY Book of the Year AwardSilver Medal Winner, 2018 Benjamin Franklin AwardFinalist, 2018 ECPA Christian Book AwardInside Syria and Iraq, and even along the refugee trail, they’re a religious minority persecuted for their C... ... Leer más

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  • Freedom of Religion and Belief: A World Report

    Edición de Kevin Boyle, Juliet Sheen ...
    This report, the first of its kind yet to be published, provides a detailed and impartial account of how the individual's right to hold beliefs is understood, protected or denied throughout the world. Consisting of accessible, short edited entries based on drafts commissioned from experts living in the countries surveyed, it exposes persecution and discrimination in virtually all world regions. ... Leer más

    $48.99 USD

  • Economic Forecasting: The State of the Art

    The State of the Art

    de Elia Xacapyr ...
    An overview of the macroeconomic forecasting industry in the United States that explains and evaluates the forecasting techniques used to make predictions about various aspects of the national economy. ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • The Sacredness of the Person

    A New Genealogy of Human Rights

    de Hans Joas ...
    What are the origins of the idea of human rights and universal human dignity? How can we most fully understand—and realize—these rights going into the future? In The Sacredness of the Person, internationally renowned sociologist and social theorist Hans Joas tells a story that differs from conventional narratives by tracing the concept of human rights back to the Judeo-Christian tradition or, ... Leer más

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