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Reflections on the Revolution In Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West

by Christopher Caldwell

This provocative and unflinching analysis of Europe’s unexpected demographic revolution focuses on the increasingly assertive Muslim populations shaping the continent’s future.

 

Europe’s half century of...


Violent Conflict and Peacebuilding: The Continuing Crisis in Darfur

by Johan Brosché & Daniel Rothbart

This book examines the continuing devastation in the Darfur region of Sudan, from the perspective of a multiplicity of conflicts of distinct types.

The crisis reached its peak in 2003-2004, when certain Arab...


Human Rights in Libya: The Impact of International Society Since 1969

by Giacomina De Bona

Since the end of the Cold War a democratic wave has swept through large parts of the world, propagating liberal values and giving impetus to the case for human rights in an international society. To date however,...


Advancing Democracy Abroad: Why We Should and How We Can

by Michael McFaul

In Advancing Democracy Abroad, McFaul explains how democracy provides a more accountable system of government, greater economic prosperity, and better security compared with other systems of government. He then...


Ethics and Security Aspects of Infectious Disease Control: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

by Enemark & J. Selgelid

The actual or potential burden of infectious diseases is sometimes so great that governments treat them as threats to national security. However, such treatment potentially increases the risk that emergency...


Gendered Experiences of Genocide: Anfal Survivors in Kurdistan-Iraq

by Choman Hardi

This book examines Kurdish women's experience of violence, destruction, the disappearance of loved ones, and incarceration during the Anfal campaign. It explores the survival strategies of these women in the...


New Constitutionalism in Latin America: Promises and Practices

by Detlef Nolte & Almut Schilling-Vacaflor

Authors from a number of different disciplines offer a general overview of constitutional reforms in Latin America since 1990. They explore the historical, philosophical and doctrinal differences between traditional...


Precision-guided Munitions and Human Suffering in War

by James E. Hickey

This book seeks to answer the question: Do precision-guided munitions (PGMs) mitigate suffering in war, and have these weapons changed the way decisions regarding war and peace have been made? Answering this...


Democracy in Iraq: History, Politics, Discourse

by Benjamin Isakhan

This book proposes a significant reassessment of the history of Iraq, documenting democratic experiences from ancient Mesopotamia through to the US occupation. Taking an interdisciplinary approach and referring...


The Origination of Unalienable Rights

by Christopher Alan Anderson

What are our unalienable rights and, maybe even more importantly, where do they originate from? If we knew where our rights actually originated from, perhaps we might be able to keep them. Author Bio: Christopher...


Our Harsh Logic

by Breaking the Silence

Israeli soldiers speak out for the first time about the truth of the Palestinian occupation, in "one of the most important books on Israel/Palestine in this generation" (The New York Review of Books)

The very...


The Favored Daughter

by Fawzia Koofi & Nadene Ghouri

The nineteenth daughter of a local village leader in rural Afghanistan, Fawzia Koofi was left to die in the sun after birth by her mother. But she survived, and perseverance in the face of extreme hardship has...


Ideal Illusions

by James Peck

From a noted historian and foreign-policy analyst, a groundbreaking critique of the troubling symbiosis between Washington and the human rights movement

The United States has long been hailed as a powerful force...


War Is Not Over When It's Over

by Ann Jones

From the renowned authority on domestic violence, a startlingly original inquiry into the aftermath of wars and their impact on the least visible victims: women

In 2007, the International Rescue Committee, which...


Gringo Nightmare

by Eric Volz

In the spirit of Midnight Express and Not Without My Daughter comes the harrowing true story of an American held in a Nicaraguan prison for a murder he didn’t commit.

Eric Volz was in his late twenties in 2005...


The Devil and Mr. Casement

by Jordan Goodman

THE STORY OF AN IMPERIAL TRAGEDY THAT SENT SHOCKWAVES AROUND THE WORLD

In September 1910, the activist Roger Casement arrived in the Amazon jungle on a mission for the British government: to investigate reports...


Little Angels: An International Legal Perspective on Child Discrimination

by Anne-Marie Mooney Cotter

Following on from her previous nine books on discrimination law, Anne-Marie Mooney Cotter now focuses on the goal of child equality. Examining issues of child labour and the relevant laws which are designed...


Civil Liberties & Human Rights

by Helen Fenwick

More than merely describing developments in the field of civil liberties and human rights, this comprehensive and challenging textbook provides students with detailed and thought-provoking coverage and analysis...


Lawful Abuse: How the Century of the Child became the Century of the Corporation

by Robert Flynn

A powerful indictment of America’s abandonment of human beings, and children in particular, in favor of corporations, this account exposes the child labor, indentured servitude, and child slavery that are...


Pussy Riot!: A Punk Prayer for Freedom

by Pussy Riot

Letters from prison, songs, poems, and courtroom statements, plus tributes to the punk band that shook the world.