Political Control & Freedoms

The Bottle, the Breast, and the State: The Politics of Infant Feeding in the United States explores the ways in which breastfeeding is both promote...

Who gets to decide what it means to live a healthy lifestyle, and how important a healthy lifestyle is to a good life? As more governments make pre...

This encyclopedia presents important research on Cuba. Some of the topics discussed herein include Cuba''s policies and relations with the United S...

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was the first and most celebrated of a wave of international criminal tribunal...

This book explores the law relating to the right to liberty of people with mental illness and international human rights standards. It is also a ma...

Core Socio-Economic Rights and the European Court of Human Rights deals with socio-economic rights in the context of the jurisprudence of the Europ...

The families of the disappeared have long struggled to uncover the truth about their missing relatives. In so doing, their mobilization has shaped ...

As it has periodically for decades, Congress is again considering how or whether to regulate campaign financing. The latest iteration of the debate...

Between 1963 and 2008 Kenya experienced systematic atrocities, economic crimes, ethnic violence, and the illegal taking of land. To come to terms w...