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  • Surveillance Cinema

    de Catherine Zimmer ...
    Series Libro 2 - Postmillennial Pop
    In Paris, a static video camera keeps watch on a bourgeois home. In Portland, a webcam documents the torture and murder of kidnap victims. And in clandestine intelligence offices around the world, satellite technologies relentlessly pursue the targets of global conspiracies. Such plots represent only a fraction of the surveillance narratives that have become commonplace in recent cinema.Catherine ... Leer más

    $27.89 USD

  • Leading Rogue State

    The U.S. and Human Rights

    de Judith R. Blau, David L. Brunsma, Alberto Moncada, Catherine Zimmer ...
    Most Americans would be surprised to learn that their government has declined to join most other nations in UN treaties addressing inadequate housing, poverty, children's rights, health care, racial discrimination, and migrant workers. Yet this book documents how the U.S. has, for decades, declined to ratify widely accepted treaties on these and many other basic human rights. Providing the first ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

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  • Activists beyond Borders

    Advocacy Networks in International Politics

    de Margaret E. Keck, Kathryn A. Sikkink ...
    Valuable reading for anyone concerned with contemporary dynamics of social change. â• International AffairsMargaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink examine a type of pressure group that has been largely ignored by political analysts: networks of activists that coalesce and operate across national frontiers. Their targets may be international organizations or the policies of particular states. ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Evidence for Hope

    Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century

    de Kathryn Sikkink ...
    Series series Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity
    A history of the successes of the human rights movement and a case for why human rights workEvidence for Hope makes the case that, yes, human rights work. Critics may counter that the movement is in serious jeopardy or even a questionable byproduct of Western imperialism. They point out that Guantánamo is still open, the Arab Spring protests have been crushed, and governments are cracking down on ... Leer más

    $20.19 USD

  • Mobilizing for Human Rights

    International Law in Domestic Politics

    de Beth A. Simmons ...
    This volume argues that international human rights law has made a positive contribution to the realization of human rights in much of the world. Although governments sometimes ratify human rights treaties, gambling that they will experience little pressure to comply with them, this is not typically the case. Focusing on rights stakeholders rather than the United Nations or state pressure, Beth ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Has Democracy Failed Women?

    de Drude Dahlerup ...
    Why are women still under-represented in politics? Can we speak of democracy when women are not fully included in political decision-making? Some argue that we are on the right track to full gender equality in politics, while others talk about women hitting the glass ceiling or being included in institutions with shrinking power, not least as a result of neo-liberalism.In this powerful essay, ... Leer más

    $18.00 USD

  • The Great Demographic Illusion

    Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream

    de Richard Alba ...
    Why the number of young Americans from mixed families is surging and what this means for the country’s futureAmericans are under the spell of a distorted and polarizing story about their country’s future—the majority-minority narrative—which contends that inevitable demographic changes will create a society with a majority made up of minorities for the first time in the United States’s history. ... Leer más

    $26.69 USD

  • How to Do Things with International Law

    de Ian Hurd ...
    A provocative reassessment of the rule of law in world politicsConventionally understood as a set of limits on state behavior, the “rule of law” in world politics is widely assumed to serve as a progressive contribution to a just, stable, and predictable world. In How to Do Things with International Law, Ian Hurd challenges this received wisdom. Bringing the study of law and legality together with ... Leer más

    $32.39 USD

  • Newcomers, Outsiders, and Insiders

    Immigrants and American Racial Politics in the Early Twenty-first Century

    de Yvette M Alex-Assensoh, Prof. Rodney E. Hero Sr., Ph.D., Prof. Ronald Schmidt Sr., Ph.D., Prof. Andrew L. Aoki, Ph.D., Prof. Ronald Schmidt Sr. Sr., Ph.D. ...
    Series series The Politics Of Race And Ethnicity
    "The authors have done a commendable and impressive job of addressing a topic of long-lasting and increasing significance in U.S. politics."---F. Chris Garcia, University of New Mexico"This is a path-breaking book that will be read across disciplines beyond political science."---James Jennings, Tufts UniversityOver the past four decades, the United States has experienced the largest influx of ... Leer más

    $20.19 USD

  • Wicked Problems

    The Ethics of Action for Peace, Rights, and Justice

    Edición de Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, Douglas Irvin-Erickson, Ernesto Verdeja ...
    The ethics of changemaking and peacebuilding may appear straightforward: advance dignity, promote well-being, minimize suffering. Sounds simple, right? Actually acting ethically when it really matters is rarely straightforward. If someone engaged in change-oriented work sets out to "do good," how should we prioritize and evaluate whose good counts? And, how ought we act once we have decided whose ... Leer más

    $22.79 USD

  • Explaining Institutional Change

    Ambiguity, Agency, and Power

    Edición de Kathleen Thelen, James Mahoney ...
    This book contributes to emerging debates in political science and sociology on institutional change. Its introductory essay proposes a new framework for analyzing incremental change that is grounded in a power-distributional view of institutions and that emphasizes ongoing struggles within but also over prevailing institutional arrangements. Five empirical essays then bring the general theory to ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the 21st Century

    A Living Document in a Changing World

    de Gordon Brown (ed.) ...
    Series Libro 2 - Open Reports Series
    The Global Citizenship Commission was convened, under the leadership of former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the auspices of NYU’s Global Institute for Advanced Study, to re-examine the spirit and stirring words of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The result – this volume – offers a 21st-century commentary on the original document, furthering the work of human rights and ... Leer más

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