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  • Civil Society and the Governance of Development

    Opposing Global Institutions

    by Anders Uhlin, S. Kalm ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book re-conceptualizes civil society engagement with global governance institutions in the field of development in terms of opposition. With an innovative theoretical framework, it maps and explains opposition strategies through detailed case studies on the EU, the Asian Development Bank, and the Global Forum on Migration and Development. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Half the Sky

    by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn ...
    **#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation—the oppression of women and girls in the developing world. From the bestselling authors of Tightrope,two of our most fiercely moral voicesWith Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $8.99 USD

  • Making Human Rights a Reality

    by Emilie M. Hafner-Burton ...
    In the last six decades, one of the most striking developments in international law is the emergence of a massive body of legal norms and procedures aimed at protecting human rights. In many countries, though, there is little relationship between international law and the actual protection of human rights on the ground. Making Human Rights a Reality takes a fresh look at why it's been so hard for ... Read more

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  • Inside South Africa’s Foreign Policy

    Diplomacy in Africa from Smuts to Mbeki

    by John Siko ...
    South Africa is still the major-player in African diplomacy, its military resources far outstripping those of other nations on the continent. It also has traditionally taken the lead role in Africa's united negotiations with other power blocs. Yet the recent consensus has been that South Africa's diplomacy over the last decades has been a disappointing failure - from appearing to back the ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Sexuality and Social Justice in Africa

    Rethinking Homophobia and Forging Resistance

    by Marc Epprecht ...
    Series series African Arguments
    The persecution of people in Africa on the basis of their assumed or perceived homosexual orientation has received considerable coverage in the popular media in recent years. Gay-bashing by political and religious figures in Zimbabwe and Gambia; draconian new laws against lesbians and gays and their supporters in Malawi, Nigeria and Uganda; and the imprisonment and extortion of gay men in Senegal ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Failing to Protect

    The UN and the Politicization of Human Rights

    by Rosa Freedman ...
    Every year tens of millions of individuals suffer grave abuses of their human rights. These violations occur worldwide, in war-torn countries and in the wealthiest states. Despite many of the abuses being well-documented, little seems to be done to stop them from happening. The United Nations was established to safeguard world peace and security, development, and human rights yet it is undeniable ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Governance Transfer by Regional Organizations

    Patching Together a Global Script

    by Tanja A. Börzel ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This volume explores the conditions under which regional organizations engage in governance transfer in and to areas of limited statehood. The authors argue that a global script of governance transfer by regional organizations is emerging, where regional and national actors are adapting governance standards and instruments to their local context. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Reaching for the Sky: Empowering Girls Through Education

    Empowering Girls Through Education

    by Urvashi Sahni ...
    Transforming the Lives of Impoverished Girls in Patriarchal SocietiesSince 2003 a privately funded high school in India has provided desperately needed education for girls from impoverished families in Lucknow, the capital and largest city in Uttar Pradesh. Urvashi Sahni, the founder of Prerna Girls School, has written a compelling narrative of how this modest school in northeast India has changed ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Migration by Boat

    Discourses of Trauma, Exclusion and Survival

    Edited by Lynda Mannik ...
    Series Book 35 - Forced Migration
    At a time when thousands of refugees risk their lives undertaking perilous journeys by boat across the Mediterranean, this multidisciplinary volume could not be more pertinent. It offers various contemporary case studies of boat migrations undertaken by asylum seekers and refugees around the globe and shows that boats not only move people and cultural capital between places, but also fuel cultural ... Read more

    Was $31.99 USD Now $23.99 USD

  • Demanding Justice and Security

    Indigenous Women and Legal Pluralities in Latin America

    by Rachel Sieder, Adriana Terven Salinas, Emma Cervone, Cristina Cucuri, Ana Cecilia Arteaga Bohrt, Leonor Lozano, Mariana Mora, Morna Macleod, Natalia De Marinis, Rosalva Aida Hernandez Castillo0, Maria Teresa Sierra1 ...
    Across Latin America, indigenous women are organizing to challenge racial, gender, and class discrimination through the courts. Collectively, by engaging with various forms of law, they are forging new definitions of what justice and security mean within their own contexts and struggles. They have challenged racism and the exclusion of indigenous people in national reforms, but also have ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Nationalism and Human Rights

    In Theory and Practice in the Middle East, Central Europe, and the Asia-Pacific

    Edited by G. Cheng ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    By critically addressing the tension between nationalism and human rights that is presumed in much of the existing literature, the essays in this volume confront the question of how we should construe human rights: as a normative challenge to the excesses of modernity, particularly those associated with the modern nation-state, or as an adjunct of globalization, with its attendant goal of ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Daisaku Ikeda and Dialogue for Peace

    Edited by Olivier Urbain ...
    The prominent Buddhist religious leader and advocate for peace, Daisaku Ikeda, has placed dialogue at the centre of his efforts towards securing global justice and conflict resolution. However, far from constituting abstract plans for the future of the world, Ikeda's dialogues represent very concrete and focused activity. He concentrates on one significant individual (such as Joseph Rotblat, Linus ... Read more

    $29.99 USD