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  • The Politics of Human Rights

    The Quest for Dignity in the 21st Century

    by Sabine C. Carey, Mark Gibney, Anita R. Gohdes ...
    Accessible and engaging, The Politics of Human Rights offers a fresh, empirical approach to understanding human dignity and the global responsibility to protect it. Unlike traditional texts, this textbook moves beyond theory, using data-driven insights to explore why human rights violations occur and how they can be prevented. It emphasizes shared responsibility across borders to uphold human ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • The Role of Networks in Advancing Human Rights

    Making Human Connections

    Edited by Shareen Hertel, Mark Gibney, Bonny Ibhawoh ...
    Networks play a central role in the human rights field. Expert contributors in this book explain how different types of networks form and shape outcomes globally. Together, they demonstrate how connections among scholars, practitioners and activists drive knowledge sharing and collaboration across disciplines, spurring innovation to address global challenges such as inequality and injustice.Each ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Quantitative Human Rights Measures and Measurement

    Current Debates and Future Directions

    Edited by Mark Gibney, Peter Haschke ...
    In this edited volume, leading experts of human rights measurement address the challenges scholarship of human rights face as well as explore approaches and means to overcoming them.The book seeks to further answer three specific and related questions. First, what do existing measures of human rights conditions tell us about the state of human rights? Are conditions improving or deteriorating? ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • World Justice?

    U.S. Courts And International Human Rights

    by Mark Gibney ...
    What role can US domestic courts play in the worldwide enforcement of human rights? When international courts deny hearings to individual plaintiffs who cannot obtain the sponsorship of their own government (which may well be the defendant), these plaintiffs are finding US courts increasingly willing to hear their cases. This volume considers the implications of this de facto extension of the ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • International Law

    Our Common Future

    by Mark Gibney ...
    International Law: Our Common Future offers a dynamic approach to the study of international law that actively engages students in ways that more traditional textbooks do not. One way this is achieved is by focusing on recent events, including international terrorism, extraordinary rendition, the legality of drone strikes, environmental devastation, and human rights. Another is by having students ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Five Uneasy Pieces

    American Ethics in a Globalized World

    by Mark Gibney ...
    Americans pride themselves on being an ethical people. They go to church, quote the Bible, erect statues, and discuss morality with abandon. They also trust their government to do the right thing when it comes to delivering legal justice and conducting foreign policy. Trouble is, American foreign policy has yielded some pretty spectacular ethical lapses, and (as 9/11 starkly demonstrated) the ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Watching Human Rights

    The 101 Best Films

    by Mark Gibney ...
    Series series International Studies Intensives
    In order to be able to protect human rights, it is first necessary to see the denial of those rights. Aside from experiencing human rights violations directly, either as a victim or as an eyewitness, more than any other medium film is able to bring us closer to this aspect of the human experience. Yet, notwithstanding its importance to human rights, film has received virtually no scholarly ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Problems of Protection

    The UNHCR, Refugees, and Human Rights

    Edited by Niklaus Steiner, Mark Gibney, Gil Loescher ...
    First Published in 2003. Of all the humanitarian impulses in world politics today, one of the most widely recognized is the need to protect refugees. However, as The Problems of Protection explores, what on the surface appears to be a simple proposition can quickly become complex and controversial. This complexity results in troubling variation in how we respond to our obligation to protect ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Politics of Human Rights

    The Quest for Dignity

    by Sabine C. Carey, Mark Gibney, Steven C. Poe ...
    Human rights is an important issue in contemporary politics, and the last few decades have also seen a remarkable increase in research and teaching on the subject. This book introduces students to the study of human rights and aims to build on their interest while simultaneously offering an alternative vision of the subject. Many texts focus on the theoretical and legal issues surrounding human ... Read more

    $41.89 USD

  • International Human Rights Law

    Returning to Universal Principles

    by Mark Gibney ...
    This clear and compelling textconfronts the dominant thinking on human rights, taking issue with the notion adopted by all states and even many academics that human rights obligations extend no further than their own territorial borders. Mark Gibney critiques cases from the U.S. Supreme Court, the International Court of Justice, and the European Court of Human Rights, arguing for a much broader ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Universal Human Rights and Extraterritorial Obligations

    Edited by Mark Gibney, Sigrun Skogly ...
    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    Globalization challenges fundamental principles governing international law, especially with respect to state sovereignty and international relations. This transformation has had a significant impact on the practice of trade law, financial regulation, and environmental law but relatively little effect on one area of law and regulation: human rights.Universal Human Rights and Extraterritorial ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Extraordinary Rendition

    Addressing the Challenges of Accountability

    Edited by Elspeth Guild, Didier Bigo, Mark Gibney ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Human Rights
    The US led programme of extraordinary rendition created profound challenges for the international system of human rights protection and rule of law. This book examines the efforts of authorities in Europe and the US to re-establish rule of law and respect for human rights through the investigation of the program and its outcomes.The contributions to this volume examine the supranational and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD