This book examines how Indigenous peoples’ rights and Indigenous rights movements represent an important and often overlooked shift in international politics...
This book examines how Indigenous peoples’ rights and Indigenous rights movements represent an important and often overlooked shift in international politics...
Examines the activities of the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme, in relation to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the Inter-American Development Bank...
This edited volume explores the relationship between the accelerating process of globalization and the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction, which is increasingly seen as the pre-eminent threat to international security...
Each entry is divided into a "life" section describing the individual's life and a "legacy" section summarizing the impact of that individual throughout history. They cover a diverse group of men and women from around the globe and history...
Bruce Russett is one of America's leading international relations scholars. Hegemony and Democracy is constructed around the question of whether hegemony is sustainable, especially when the hegemon is a democratic state. The book draws on earlier publications over Bruce Russett’s long career and fea..
Bruce Russett is one of America's leading international relations scholars. Hegemony and Democracy is constructed around the question of whether hegemony is sustainable, especially when the hegemon is a democratic state. The book draws on earlier publications over Bruce Russett’s long career and fea..
This book is the first to provide comprehensive and comparative analyses to conceptualise the interaction between ‘hegemonic structures’ and those actors resisting them using the Iranian nuclear case as an illustration. It analyses the foreign policies of China, Russia and Turkey towards the Iranian..
This book examines the effects of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington of 11 September 2001 on America's human rights and counter-terrorism policies towards key countries in Asia...
This volume examines the extent to which the 2001 terrorist attacks on the USA compromised the promotion of an external human rights policy. It concludes that human rights policy depends predominantly on domestic factors...
In recent years human rights have assumed a central position in the discourse surrounding international development, while human rights agencies have begun to more systematically address economic and social rights. This edited volume brings together distinguished scholars to explore the merging of h..
This collection of papers brings together legal specialists and human rights activists from the US and the Commonwealth of Independent States to discuss their past and recent history, pending problems, and immediate goals in the field of human rights...