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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “scott d watson”
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  • Borders and Migration

    The Canadian Experience in Comparative Perspective

    by Asad G. Kiyani, Birte Wassenberg, Can E. Mutlu, Claude Beaupré, Donald Galloway, Edward Boyle, Franziska Fischer, Naomi Chi, Sabine Lehr, Scott D. Watson, Solomon Wong, Victoria Simmons, Geneviève Tellier, Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly ...
    Series series Politics and Public Policy
    Depuis 2015, les mouvements transfrontaliers de migrants et de réfugiés ont atteint des niveaux sans précédent. La guerre, la persécution, l’extrême pauvreté et la désertification ont forcé des millions de personnes à fuir leur pays d’Asie centrale, du Levant ou de l’Afrique du Nord. Les pays du Nord ont réagi de manières diverses, certains ouvrant leurs frontières à un nombre historique de ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • International Order and the Politics of Disaster

    by Scott D. Watson ...
    In this indispensable and comprehensive text, Scott D. Watson critically examines the current understanding of international order that underpins international disaster management and disaster diplomacy.Based on empirical analysis of the three international disaster management regimes - disaster relief, disaster risk reduction, and disaster migration - and case studies of disaster diplomacy in the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Securitization of Humanitarian Migration

    Digging moats and sinking boats

    by Scott D. Watson ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
    This book examines how western liberal states are progressively restricting access to refugees and asylum seekers, even though these states have signed international agreements obliging them to offer protection to those fleeing persecution and to advocate the spread of human rights and humanitarian principles. Watson examines how refugees and asylum seekers have come to be treated so poorly by ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • The Twilight of Human Rights Law

    by Eric Posner ...
    Series series Inalienable Rights
    Countries solemnly intone their commitment to human rights, and they ratify endless international treaties and conventions designed to signal that commitment. At the same time, there has been no marked decrease in human rights violations, even as the language of human rights has become the dominant mode of international moral criticism. Well-known violators like Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan have ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Terror in Chechnya

    Russia and the Tragedy of Civilians in War

    by Emma Gilligan ...
    Series series Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity
    A riveting history of Russia's crimes in ChechnyaTerror in Chechnya is the definitive account of Russian war crimes in Chechnya. Emma Gilligan provides a comprehensive history of the second Chechen conflict of 1999 to 2005, revealing one of the most appalling human rights catastrophes of the modern era—one that has yet to be fully acknowledged by the international community. Drawing upon ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Ecosocialism

    A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe

    by Michael Löwy ...
    Capitalism is killing the planet, and the preservation of a natural environment favorable to human life requires a radical alternative. In this new collection of essays, long time revolutionary and environmental activist Michael Löwy offers a vision of ecosocialist transformation. This vision combines an understanding of the destructive logic of the capitalist system with an appreciation for ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Ghost of the Innocent Man

    A True Story of Trial and Redemption

    by Benjamin Rachlin ...
    A gripping account of one man's long road to freedom that will forever change how we understand our criminal justice system.During the last three decades, more than two thousand American citizens have been wrongfully convicted. Ghost of the Innocent Man brings us one of the most dramatic of those cases and provides the clearest picture yet of the national scourge of wrongful conviction and of the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • North America in Question

    Regional Integration in an Era of Economic Turbulence

    by Jeffrey Ayres, Laura MacDonald ...
    Series series Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy
    Can North America survive as a region in light of the political turbulence provoked by the global economic crisis? Or have regional integration and collaboration reached a plateau beyond which disintegration is likely? In North America in Question, leading analysts from Canada, the United States, and Mexico provide theoretically innovative and rich empirical reflections on current challenges ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Forced to Be Good

    Why Trade Agreements Boost Human Rights

    by Emilie M. Hafner-Burton ...
    Preferential trade agreements have become common ways to protect or restrict access to national markets in products and services. The United States has signed trade agreements with almost two dozen countries as close as Mexico and Canada and as distant as Morocco and Australia. The European Union has done the same. In addition to addressing economic issues, these agreements also regulate the ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Foucault and the Politics of Rights

    by Ben Golder ...
    This book focuses on Michel Foucault's late work on rights in order to address broader questions about the politics of rights in the contemporary era. As several commentators have observed, something quite remarkable happens in this late work. In his early career, Foucault had been a great critic of the liberal discourse of rights. Suddenly, from about 1976 onward, he makes increasing appeals to ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Ageism and Mistreatment of Older Workers

    Current Reality, Future Solutions

    Edited by Patricia Brownell, James J. Kelly ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book promotes an understanding of ageism, discrimination and mistreatment of older adult workers, incorporating an international human rights perspective. The impact of ageism on the mistreatment of older adult workers has not to date been examined in depth through the lens of international human rights instruments, nor has discrimination against older adults in the workplace been framed as a ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Storm in the Desert

    Britain's Intervention in Libya and the Arab Spring

    by Mark Muller Stuart ...
    A "densely packed and invigorating account" of the diplomatic and political approaches prescribed during the Libyan revolution and the Benghazi attack ( The Herald).In this remarkable book, Mark Muller tells the story of British intervention in Libya and the Arab Spring from a unique civil society standpoint: he was there in Benghazi two weeks after the UN No-Fly Zone Resolution was passed, ... Read more

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