Political Control & Freedoms

Developing a normative framework for evaluating non-state actors in the absence of formally binding obligations, this study is the first detailed h...

With essays ranging from climate change and global poverty to just war and human rights and immigration, leading future figures present an ideal co...

With essays ranging from climate change and global poverty to just war and human rights and immigration, leading future figures present an ideal co...

This book provides a critical analysis of the reintegration challenges facing ex-combatants. Based on extensive field research, it includes detaile...

Clearly presenting the case-law concerning Article 9 of the European Convention of Human Rights, this is a lively and accessible analysis of a key ...

Are universal rights bound to colonialism? Are they culturally imperialistic? By juxtaposing Morocco's practice of torture with its discourse of cu...

Thousands of women are murdered every year by close relatives for allegedly violating an unwritten social code or rebelling against the patriarchal...

Focusing on care workers for the elderly, this book examines the paradoxical position of irregular migrants in European society, who are often labe...

Arguing for a middle ground between idealism and realism, this book considers the most pressing ethical and moral issues in contemporary internatio...

Mega Cause I was one of the largest in a recent surge of trials in Argentina for human rights violations committed during the dictatorship of 1976-...

This book presents the latest evidence from Young Lives, a unique international study of children and poverty. It shows how the persistence of ineq...

It seemed at times during the 1960s that America was caught in an unending cycle of violence and disorder. Successive summers from 1964-1968 brough...

This book uniquely applies securitization theory to the mass sexual violence atrocities committed during the Bosnia war and the Rwandan genocide. E...

The increased targeting of civilians by militants raises serious and profound questions for policy-makers. Examining conflict in Northern Ireland, ...

How disputes over privacy and security have shaped the relationship between the European Union and the United States and what this means for the fu...

The book discusses the changing relationship between American Catholic Bishops and civil authorities in the United States, as civil authority has e...

In recent years the death penalty has sharply declined across Africa, but this trend belies actual public opinion and the retributivist sentiments ...

Offering a theology of migration, Cruz reflects on the Christian vision of 'one bread, one body, one people' in view of the gifts and challenges of...

What did the American people and the US government know about the threats posed by Nazi Germany? What could have been done to stop the rise of Nazi...

The European Union clearly matters for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). EU officials and European political entrepreneurs has been crucial in th...

This study examines Turkey's non-recognition of the right to conscientious objection to military service and locates this non-recognition within th...

Based on extensive fieldwork that began in Argentina, this book asks how detained and disappeared persons inhabit the categories that international...

Drawing on case studies from the global South, this book explores the politics of mediated citizenship in which citizens are represented to the sta...