Human Rights & Human Welfare | Vol 5 | Iss 1

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Book Notes

Christina M. Cerna on the Development of Positive Obligations Under the European Convention on Human Rights by the European Court of Human Rights by Alastair Mowbray. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2004. 239pp.
Christina M. Cerna

Patrick Hayden on International Human Rights, Decolonisation and Globalisation: Becoming Human by Shelley Wright. London: Routledge, 2001. 274 pp.
Patrick Hayden

Margot Morgan on The Politics of Justice and Human Rights: Southeast Asia and Universalist Theory by Anthony J. Langlois. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 214 pp.
Margot Morgan

Peggy J. Blair on Commercial Law and Human Rights edited by Stephen Bottomley and David Kinley. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2001. 356pp.
Peggy J. Blair

Aaron Peron Ogletree on The Tiananmen Papers compiled by Zhang Liang, edited by Andrew Nathan and Perry Link. New York: Public Affairs, 2001. 513pp.
Aaron Peron Ogletree

Aaron Peron Ogletree on Indigenous Peoples In International Law (Second Edition) by S. James Anaya. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 396pp.
Aaron Peron Ogletree

Akinbola E. Akinwumi on Sickness and Wealth: The Corporate Assault on Global Health by Meredith Fort, Mary Anne Mercer and Oscar Gish (eds). Cambridge: South End Press, 2004. 237pp.
Akinbola E. Akinwumi

Magdalena A. Zolkos on Rethinking the Holocaust by Yehuda Bauer. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. 335pp.
Magdalena A. Zolkos

David P. Forsythe on The United States and the Rule of Law in International Affairs by John F. Murphy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 367pp.
David P. Forsythe

David E. Guinn on A Handbook of International Human Rights Terminology (Second Edition) by H. Victor Condé. Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. 536pp.
David E. Guinn

David E. Guinn on The Wilson Chronology of Human Rights: A Record of the Human Striving for Freedom from Ancient Times to the Present. Edited by David Levinson. Bronx, NY: H.W. Wilson, 2003. 581pp.
David E. Guinn

David E. Guinn on A Dictionary of Human Rights (2nd Edition) by David Robertson. London, England: Europa Publications, 2004. 346pp.
David E. Guinn

Peter W. Van Arsdale on This Place Will Become Home: Refugee Repatriation to Ethiopia by Laura C. Hammond. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. 257pp.
Peter W. Van Arsdale

Kathleen J. Hancock on Breaking Silence, The Case That Changed The Face of Human Rights by Richard Alan White. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2004. 320pp.
Kathleen J. Hancock

Emilian Kavalski on The Liberal Archipelago: A Theory of Diversity and Freedom by Chandran Kukathas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. 292pp.
Emilian Kavalski

Karen MacDonald on Constitutional Environmental Rights by Tim Hayward. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. 236pp.
Karen MacDonald

Christina M. Cerna on Defining Civil and Political Rights: The Jurisprudence of the United Nations Human Rights Committee by Alex Conte, Scott Davidson and Richard Burchill. Ashgate Publishing Company, 2004. 257pp.
Christina M. Cerna

Karen A. Mingst on The U.N. Security Council: From the Cold War to the 21st Century. Edited by David M. Malone. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2004. 745pp.
Karen A. Mingst

David P. Forsythe on Non-State Actors and Human Rights. Edited by Philip Alston. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2005. 350pp.
David P. Forsythe

Review Essays

Structures of Violence: The Proliferation of Atrocity Environments Under the Brazilian Military Government and the Bush Administration
Kara Martinez

Globalizing Democracy or Democratizing Globalism?
Matthew S. Weinert

Legitimacy, Justice, and the Future of Africa
J. Peter Pham

“Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There!” Humanitarian Intervention and the Drowning Stranger
Sundhya Pahuja

Supranationalism and the Superpower Rubicon
Imtiaz Hussain

Human Rights Investigation and Dialogue
Bronwyn Leebaw

The Promise and Limitations of International Human Rights Activism
Rebecca Evans

An American Tragedy: The Decline of U.S. Unionism and Its Human Rights Implications
Peter Zwiebach

A Life in the Realm of Rights: A Man and a Movement’s History
Tom J. Farer

Protecting Indigenous Peoples
Paul J. Magnarella

Human Rights and Globalization: Is the Shrinking World Expanding Rights?
Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat

Topical Research Digest

Human Rights and Post-War Reconstruction: Introduction
Roberto Belloni

Democratization in Afghanistan
Chris Rowe

Neotrusteeship in Afghanistan
Melanie Kawano

State-Building in Afghanistan
Melanie Kawano and Amy McGuire

Democratization in Bosnia
Melanie Kawano, Amber Goodman, and Chris Saeger

Neotrusteeship in Bosnia
Lauren Ingram

State-Building in Bosnia
Chris Saeger

Democratization in Iraq
Kate Lotz and Tim Melvin

Neotrusteeship in Iraq
Tim Melvin

State-Building in Iraq
Hafsteinn Hafsteinnsson

Topical Research Digest 2

Human Rights and the War on Terror: Introduction
Jack Donnelly

Background for The “War on Terror”

Afghanistan
Greg Sanders

Chechnya
Kelley Laird

Colombia
Travis Ning

Europe
Victoria Lowdon, Angela Woolliams, and Robin Davey

Georgia
James Smithwick

Iran
Syd Dillard

Israel
Sydney Fisher

Pakistan
Susannah Compton and Toni Panetta

The USA PATRIOT Act
Toni Panetta

Sri Lanka
Amanda Donahoe

Sudan
Alexandra Nichols

Uganda
Simon Amajuru

U. S. Foreign Policy
Charles Hess

Uzbekistan
Chris Maggard

Working Papers

International Humanitarianism in the Contemporary World: Forms and Issues
David P. Forsythe

Human Rights
Jack Donnelly

Aiding Whom? Competing Explanations of Middle-Power Foreign Aid Decisions
Bethany Barratt PhD

The United States and Economic and Social Rights: Past, Present…and Future?
Daniel J. Whelan

Hijacked Justice: Domestic Appropriation of International Norms
Jelena Subotić