Social science / Political science / Political Freedom & Security / Human Rights

James Meredith and the Ole Miss Riot: A Soldier's Story

by Henry T. Gallagher & Gene Roberts

In September 1962, James Meredith became the first African American admitted to the University of Mississippi. A milestone in the civil rights movement, his admission triggered a riot spurred by a mob of three...

Robert Sobukwe: How Can Man Die Better

by Benjamin Pogrund

On 21 March 1960, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, leader of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), led a mass defiance of South Africa’s pass laws. He urged blacks to go the nearest police station and demand arrest....

The Rebecca Code: Rommel's Spy in Africa and Operation Condor

by Mark Simmons

John Eppler thought himself to be the perfect spy. Born to German parents, he grew up in Egypt, adopted by a wealthy family and was educated in Europe. Fluent in German, English and Arabic, he made the Hadj...

Making Human Rights Work Globally

by Anthony Woodiwiss

This book is one of the first studies in the new field of the sociology of human rights,and it centres its analysis on labour rights. Such rights are of critical importance in this field, work being the defining...

Philosophy and the Common Law

by Christopher Alan Anderson

What is the connection between philosophy and law--or, more specifically, the common law? Moreover, what actually is the specific philosophy that can hold the commom law (thus our rights) in place? Author Bio:...

Roe v. Wade: The Untold Story of the Landmark Supreme Court Decision that Made Abortion Legal

by Marian Faux

It is difficult to keep in mind that the era of illegal abortions ended only 27 years ago.

National, European and Human Security: From Co-Existence to Convergence

by Mary Kaldor, Mary Martin & Narcis Serra

This book examines how national security strategies relate to an emerging common European or global vision of security, and to human security ideas.

Human security and national security are often regarded as...

Genocide by Attrition: The Nuba Mountains of Sudan

by Samuel Totten

Few people know much about the government of Sudan’s genocidal attack against the people of the Nuba Mountains in the late 1980s and early 1990s. This volume documents this atrocity, focusing on crimes...

Mexico's Unrule of Law: Implementing Human Rights in Police and Judicial Reform under Democratization

by Niels Uildriks

Mexico's Unrule of Law: Human Rights and Police Reform Under Democratization looks at recent Mexican criminal justice reforms. Using Mexico City as a case study of the social and institutional realities, Niels...

Memories of Life in Lhasa Under Chinese Rule

by Tubten Khetsun & Matthew Akester

Born in 1941, Tubten Khétsun is a nephew of the Gyatso Tashi Khendrung, one of the senior government officials taken prisoner after the Tibetan peoples' uprising of March 10, 1959. Khétsun himself was arrested...

Islam and Human Rights: Tradition and Politics

by Ann Elizabeth Elizabeth Mayer

 A probing examination of how the Islamic tradition has been exploited for political ends by regimes and institutions seeking to legitimize policies inimical to human rights.   

The Democracy Makers: Human Rights and the Politics of Global Order

by Nicolas Guilhot

Nicolas Guilhot looks at how the U.S. government, the World Bank, political scientists, NGOs, think tanks have appropriated the movements for democracy and human rights. His work charts the various symbolic...

The Routledge Handbook of the Responsibility to Protect

by W. Andy Andy Knight & Frazer Egerton

This Handbook offers a comprehensive examination of the Responsibility to Protect norm in world politics, which aims to end mass atrocities against civilians.

The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is amongst the...

International Security, Conflict and Gender: 'HIV/AIDS is Another War'

by Hakan Seckinelgin

This book challenges the conventional security-based international policy frameworks that have developed for dealing with HIV/AIDS during and after conflicts, and examines first-hand evidence and experiences...

My Life in Prison: Memoirs of a Chinese Political Dissident

by Jiang Qisheng

In 1999, the tenth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, leading dissident Jiang Qisheng was given a four-year sentence for inviting the Chinese people to light candles to honor the victims. Drawn with...

The European Union and the Arab Spring: Promoting Democracy and Human Rights in the Middle East

by Joel Peters

The Arab Spring has swept away decades old authoritarian regimes in the Middle East, and has captured the imagination of international community. The European Union and the Arab Spring: Promoting Democracy and...

Africa's Long Road to Rights / Long Trajet de l'Afrique vers les droits: Reflections on the 20th Anniversary of the African Commission on Human and Pe

by Hakima Abbas

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, this reflection on its achievements as well as its limitations brings to light the commission's work...

Tensions of Modernity: Las Casas and His Legacy in the French Enlightenment

by Daniel R. R. Brunstetter

Politics today is marked by tension between claims of universal human rights and diversity. From the war on terror to immigration, one of the major challenges facing liberalism is to understand the scope of...

The Dictator's Learning Curve: Inside the Global Battle for Democracy

by William J. Dobson

In this riveting anatomy of authoritarianism, acclaimed journalist William Dobson takes us inside the battle between dictators and those who would challenge their rule. Recent history has seen an incredible...

Inside America's Concentration Camps: Two Centuries of Internment and Torture

by James L. L. Dickerson

Exploring the history and tragedy of concentration camps that were built, staged, and filled with adults and children under the orders of the U.S. government, this vivid narrative brings the stories of victims...