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  • Kosovo and Transitional Justice
    This book analyses efforts to achieve justice in Kosovo for victims of crimes committed during the conflict in the 1990s, relating this to broader debates on transitional justice. ...
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    73,33 €

  • Development-induced Displacement and Human Rights in Africa
    Romola Adeola
    Within the context of the 2009 Kampala Convention, this book examines how a balance can be struck between the imperative of development projects and the rights of persons likely to be displaced in Africa. ...
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    73,69 €

  • Economic Neoliberalism and International Development
    Michael Tribe
    This book provides a robust theoretical and empirical exploration of the interrelationship between economic neoliberalism and international development. It will be of interest to a range of researchers interested in the economic, social and political dynamics of developing and transitional countries. ...
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    73,32 €

  • Narrating Human Rights in Africa
    Eleni Coundouriotis
    Narrating Human Rights in Africa claims human rights from the perspective of artists from the African continent and situates the key theoretical concepts in African perspectives, undercutting the stereotypes of victimhood and voicelessness. ...
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    73,41 €

  • Dōwa Policy and Japanese Politics
    Ian Neary
    This book locates the development of Dōwa policy projects within their historical and political context, offering examples of human rights protection in a non-Western society. ...
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    73,12 €

  • The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales
    David Downes
    Volume III of The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales draws on archival sources and individual accounts to offer a history of penal policymaking in England and Wales between 1959 and 1997. ...
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    73,05 €

  • Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination
    Chielozona Eze
    This book is an interdisciplinary reading of justice in literary texts and memoirs, films, and social anthropological texts in postcolonial Africa.  This book will be of interest to scholars of African literature and films, literature and human rights, literature and the environment. ...
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    73,55 €

  • Interviews with North Korean Defectors
    Adam Zulawnik / Lim Il
    Originally compiled and written by North Korean defector and author Lim Il, this English-language edition, thoroughly annotated by Dr. Adam Zulawnik, is a fascinating collection of thirty-four interviews with highly prominent North Korean defectors residing in South Korea. ...
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    73,03 €

  • The Struggle for the People’s King
    Hajar Yazdiha
    How the misuses of Martin Luther King’s legacy divide us and undermine democracyIn the post–civil rights era, wide-ranging groups have made civil rights claims that echo those made by Black civil rights activists of the 1960s, from people with disabilities to women’s rights activists and LGBTQ coalitions. Increasingly since the 1980s, white, right-wing social movements, from fa...
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    128,95 €

  • European Union Support for Colombia’s Peace Process
    Karlos Pérez de Armiño
    This open access book provides a comprehensive analysis of the EU’s crucial support for the implementation of the Havana Peace Agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC-EP. It explores the use of new approaches and instruments that, despite some limitations and criticisms, could go beyond conventional liberal peace and provide useful lessons. Particular attention ...
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    47,48 €

  • The Struggle for the People’s King
    Hajar Yazdiha
    How the misuses of Martin Luther King’s legacy divide us and undermine democracyIn the post–civil rights era, wide-ranging groups have made civil rights claims that echo those made by Black civil rights activists of the 1960s, from people with disabilities to women’s rights activists and LGBTQ coalitions. Increasingly since the 1980s, white, right-wing social movements, from fa...
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    40,33 €

  • Kant’s typo, and the limits of the law
    Marie E. Newhouse
    At first glance, Kant’s political thought can appear bafflingly inconsistent. On one hand, Kant holds that political authority is justified exclusively as a necessary precondition to our individual freedom. On the other hand, Kant seems at times to embrace a deeply repressive account of state power. He declares that the state’s laws are necessarily consistent with our freedom, ...
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    64,47 €

  • UN Human Rights Institutions and the Environment
    Sumudu Atapattu
    This book presents an in-depth analysis of how UN Human Rights institutions and mechanisms have addressed environmental protection, sustainable development and climate change. ...
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    213,48 €

  • By This Shall We Be Known
    Terriel Byrd / Terriel R. Byrd
    By This Shall We Be Known: Interpreting the Voice, Vision, and Message of Martin Luther King, Jr. draws out the simple truths ad practical wisdom woven throughout the legacy of this twentieth century pioneer of the Modern Civil Rights era. Byrd explores Dr. King’s work and life, especially his preaching, to illustrate the power of his thought to inspire individuals today. ...
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    8,48 €

  • Rights and Urban Controversies in Hong Kong
    This book examines the 'ethics in relation to city and urbanism' by evaluating the strengths and limitations of rights as a conceptual tool from the comparative East-West perspective in resolving urban controversies (involving conflicts of rights between different classes, different groups within the present generation, present vs future generations, human vs animals, human vs ...
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    48,25 €

  • Non-Territorial Autonomy
    This Open Access textbook is a result of the work of ENTAN - the European Non-Territorial Autonomy Network. It provides students with a comprehensive analysis of the different aspects and issues around the concept of non-territorial autonomy (NTA). The themes of each chapter have been selected to ensure a multi- and interdisciplinary overview of an emerging research field and s...
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    48,17 €

  • Walaahi
    Dawn Bates
    The world watched as Egyptians rose up together for the first time in history to overthrow President Hosni Mubarak. It could’ve been a gripping tale straight out of a movie, with communication blackouts, violent and bloody protests, police and army brutality, curfews, and fighter jet flybys. But for those living in Egypt this was real life. Living through it all was British aut...
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    17,58 €

  • Research Methods in Critical Security Studies
    This textbook surveys new and emergent methods for doing research in critical security studies, filling a gap in the literature. The 2nd edition has been revised and updated. ...
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    213,54 €

  • 通往普世之路
    Xiao Po
     内容简介    本书先是描述了现代文明经济、文化、政治三者之间密不可分,尤其现代文明是建立在以人为中心的基础上,现代国家需要捍卫人类共同的普世价值。随后作者简单的描述了中国历史,他认为归根到底是中国的大一统理念与自由文化背道而驰,导致专制程度的不断加深最终让本土文明衰落,而如今的中国只进行经济改革而忽略文化政治变革,那么仍然会像其他专制帝国一样维持不了长期繁荣。作者揭穿了红色中国政权的道貌岸然,逐一论述红色政权所宣扬的价值观与现实严重不符,尤其作者所生活的新疆地区是专制程度最深的地方。作者设想中,未来的中国只有接受普世价值,走向宪政民主才能让国家真正强大起来。同时作者认为世界此时也变的不太平,自由世界的民主国家是时候建立起联盟,在世界范围内捍卫普世价值,抵御专制国家奴役的蔓延。 ...
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    24,24 €

  • Human Rights Dissemination in Central Asia
    This open access book explores the field of human rights dissemination in Central Asia. Offering a comparative perspective on five post-Soviet Central Asian states-Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan, it examines compliance with international human rights standards in these countries. The contributions capture various aspects of human rights dissemi...
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    48,55 €

  • Challenging the Narrative
    Cahal McLaughlin
    Filmmaker McLaughlin addresses the need to create platforms for survivors of political violence to tell their stories in order to challenge marginalizing narratives and injustices and as a form of public acknowledgement and personal healing. ...
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    36,04 €

  • Frontiers of Gender Equality
    Rebecca J Cook
    In Frontiers of Gender Equality, editor Rebecca Cook enlarges the chorus of voices to introduce new and different discourses about the wrongs of gender discrimination and to explain the multiple dimensions of gender equality. This volume demonstrates that the wrongs of discrimination can best be understood from the perspective of the discriminated, and that gender discriminatio...
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    132,66 €

  • Frontiers of Gender Equality
    Rebecca J Cook
    In Frontiers of Gender Equality, editor Rebecca Cook enlarges the chorus of voices to introduce new and different discourses about the wrongs of gender discrimination and to explain the multiple dimensions of gender equality. This volume demonstrates that the wrongs of discrimination can best be understood from the perspective of the discriminated, and that gender discriminatio...
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    73,34 €

  • Border Rules
    Kanishka Chowdhury
    This book examines both border policies and oppositional narratives of 'the border,' 2011-2021, demonstrating that the term designates not merely a line of territorial control but also a set of social relations shaped by persistent, racially differentiated colonial structures and, more recently, by neoliberal modes of accumulation. These relations are shown to determine access ...
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    48,10 €

  • Participation and Democratic Innovation under International Human Rights Law
    Nicholas McMurry
    This book explores the human rights principle of participation and the human right to participation. ...
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    213,71 €

  • Statelessness, governance, and the problem of citizenship
    A person who is not recognised as a citizen anywhere is typically referred to as ’stateless’. Statelessness, governance, and the problem of citizenship redirects focus away from legal analyses of statelessness to uncover a more fundamental ’problem of citizenship’, and interrogates how citizenship is used as a governance tool around the world. ...
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    43,60 €

  • Azaadi, Freedom and Change in Kashmir
    Laura Schuurmans
    Kashmir has been in geopolitical limbo since the partition of the British Raj in 1947. A region of stunning natural beauty and diverse ethnicities and cultures, its people have experienced violence, state oppression, and terrorism for generations. This book provides an introduction to the region, and its people, and reveals the everyday realities and experiences of conflict fro...
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    24,30 €

  • Albanian advocacy for Chameria in Europe
    Jeroen Zandberg
    The Cham are an Albanian speaking community who lived in a region what is now northwestern Greece and which was part of the Ottoman Empire for many centuries. They were driven out to Turkey and Albania in several waves during the time-period between 1913 and 1944 and were stripped of their citizenship. Their land, houses and other possessions were seized and nationalized throug...
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    50,49 €

  • Indigeneity, Culture and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
    Dominic O’Sullivan
    This is the first scholarly book to examine the UN Sustainable Development Goals from an indigenous perspective and, specifically, with reference to the right to self-determination. It refers to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and domestic instruments such as New Zealand’s Tiriti o Waitangi to suggest how the goals could be revised to support self-determi...
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    48,02 €

  • National and International Civilian Protection Strategies in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
    Timea Spitka
    This open access book examines security and protection within Israel and Palestine, analyzing national and international security strategies that apply to the protection of civilians. The author examines the principles, practices and the perception of protection.  Focusing on protection strategies and practices in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this book reveals some of the ...
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    48,35 €