This book is a profound exploration of truth commissions around the world, and the anguish, injustice, and the legacy of hate they are meant to absolve. Case studies include South Africa, El Salvador, Argentina, Chile, and Guatemala.

This unique and stimulating book investigates the concept of human rights in the Roman world. The author argues that on the theoretical side, thinkers such as Cicero and Seneca developed ideas and, on the pragmatic side, practical applications wer...

Is liberal democracy a universal ideal? Proponents of "Asian values" argue that it is a distinctive product of the Western experience and that Western powers shouldn't try to push human rights and democracy onto Asian states. Liberal democrats in...

This book is a comprehensive treatise on the concept of a right, or entitlement from the time of the ancient Greeks to the present. The author follows the evolution of a right from philosophical concept to its adoption in the late twentieth centur...

Successfully combining military, political, and cultural analysis with a serious treatment of legal and human rights considerations, this book will appeal to anyone interested in the conversion from war to peace in Latin America and around the wo...

On May 11, 2003, The New York Times devoted four pages of its Sunday paper to the deceptions of Jayson Blair, a mediocre former Times reporter who had made up stories, faked datelines, and plagiarized on a massive scale. The fallout from the B...

This is the third edition of William A. Schabas's highly praised study of the abolition of the death penalty in international law. Extensively revised to take account of developments in the field since publication of the second edition in 1997, th...

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"A splendid volume . . . fused with political and philosophical insight into the fundamental concepts underlying the Declaration."— American Journal of International Law

"All the contributions are interesting and, from their own different perspectives, throw light on the different aspects of the vexed question of human rights."— Political Studies