Human rights, civil rights

This book presents the case that liberal constitutionalism in the global South is a legacy of colonialism and is inappropriate as a means of securing effective peace in regions that have been subject to recurrent conflict.

This book discusses the crucial strategic topic for the practical implementation of transitional justice in post-conflict societies by arguing that the dilemma is defined by the extent to which the actual achievement of the political goals of transition is a necessary condition for the long-term observance and implementation of justice.

The decline of respect for free speech, academic freedom, and civil liberty in American universities.

The American invasion of Iraq was largely governed by faith-based policy.

This book offers a new perspective on international law, which was, for centuries, male-dominant and gender-blind.

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This book, which updates and expands the third edition published by Springer in 2015, explains, compares and evaluates the social and legal functions of adoption within a range of selected jurisdictions and on an international basis.

In The Universe Is On Our Side, Bruce Ledewitz argues that there has been a breakdown in American public life that no election can fix - Americans struggle to even converse about politics and the usual explanations for our condition have failed to make things better.

Cases of sexual violence against men have been documented in a great number of conflicts and wars, both ancient and contemporary.

Eastern Europe was once clearly defined by the centralized political and economic organization of the societies in the region.

Moving past theoretical critiques of human rights, this book considers how we might translate situational analyses of torture into effective strategies for preventing it.

This book explores the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) phenomenon - its impact and implications for Israel and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, as well as the inextricable linkage between its anti-Israeli/anti-Zionist propaganda and antisemitism, unraveled from yet unknown perspectives.

Palestine for the Third Time is a book of reportage originally published in Poland in 1933 by Ksawery Pruszynski, a young reporter working for a Polish newspaper, who went to Mandate Palestine to see for himself whether the Zionist dream of returning to Eretz Yisrael had a chance of turning into reality.

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This book draws on extensive fieldwork among Muslims in Nepal to examine the local and global factors that shape contemporary Muslim identity and the emerging Islamic revival movement based in the Kathmandu valley.

In the beginning of American history, the Word was in Spanish, Latin, and native languages like Nahuatal.

This book explores the role of faith and politics in shaping the international relations of South Asia.

Should states use military force for humanitarian purposes?

Human rights and their principles of interpretation are the leading legal paradigms of our time.

This book finds and explores a gender gap in political support in the Occupied Palestinian Territories whereby more women than men support Hamas, and more men than women support Fatah.

When the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) assumed power in India in 1998 as the largest party of the National Democratic Alliance, it soon became evident that it prioritized educational reforms.

Was the Bush administration was successful in legitimating its preferences with habeas corpus, torture, and extraordinary rendition?

This book explores the idea of responsible government in East Asia, arguing that many recent governance crises have resulted from responsibility failures on a huge scale.

A landmark dissenting opinion arguing against the death penalty.

The UAE ambassador to Russia shares a bold and intimate exploration of what it means to be Muslim in the 21st century.

This first comprehensive history of the Russian Bible demonstrates how scriptural translation exposed serious divisions in modern Russian religious culture.

The powerful, long-repressed classic of Dallas history that examines the violent and suppressed history of race and racism in the city.

This new work surveys how rapid changes taking place at the start of the twenty-first century in social, cultural, political and economic domains impact on sexuality, health and human rights.

For the last five decades, Rodney Stark has been one of sociology's most prolific and important scholars of religion.

The Kharijites were the first sectarian movement in Islamic history, a rebellious splinter group that separated itself from mainstream Muslim society and set about creating, through violence, an ideal community of the saved.

This book provides a critical account of the concept of international protection.

What does it mean that human rights derive from human dignity?

This book presents critical engagements with the work of Hent de Vries, widely regarded as one of the most important living philosophers of religion.

This two-volume book addresses the economic transformation occurring in China at present.

A myth exists that Jews can embrace the cultural components of Judaism without appreciating the legal aspects of the Jewish tradition.

The Free Speech Movement in Berkeley, California, was pivotal in shaping 1960s America.

An examination of the plight of the refugees of Burma's protracted civil war, many of whom have fled across the border into Thailand.

The Fast Track Land Reform Programme in Zimbabwe has emerged as a highly contested reform process both nationally and internationally.

The term 'War on Terror' (WOT) covers a mass of interlinked topics.

This invaluable one-stop reference source supplies students and general readers with historical and current information on the victims' rights revolution in the United States, providing analysis on everything from human rights reports to Supreme Court cases that allows the reader to fully understand these documents.

The United States contributes more foreign aid than any other state in the world, and it is often recognized as a leader in engaging religious organizations in aid delivery.

A theoretically-informed, critical account of the making of the international legal rules governing civil war.

Peter Beyer, a distinguished sociologist of religion, presents a way of understanding religion in a contemporary global society - by analyzing it as a dimension of the historical process of globalization.

Violence and Gender in the Globalized World expands the critical picture of gender and violence in the age of globalization by introducing a variety of uncommonly discussed geo-political sites and dynamics.

East Asia, until recently the scene of widespread blood-letting, has achieved relative peace.

Scholars from a range of different disciplines explore how best to implement children''s rights.

A child may be born into a poor country, but not a poor world.