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1. The International Politics of Human Rights

   Rallying to the R2P Cause?

   Edited by Monica Serrano, Thomas G. Weiss

   Series: Global Institutions

   The responsibility to protect (R2P) is at a crossroads, the latest in a journey that is only ten years old. The aim of this work is to link the present debates on the prevention of mass atrocities to R2P’s normative prospects. The book’s distinguished contributors will address a set of key...

   To Be Published December 29th 2013 by Routledge
2. Responsibility to Protect

   Cultural Perspectives in the Global South

   Edited by Rama Mani, Thomas G. Weiss

   Series: Global Institutions

   This volume explores in a novel and challenging way the emerging norm of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), initially adopted by the United Nations World Summit in 2005 following significant debate throughout the preceding decade. This work seeks to uncover whether this norm and its founding...

   Published September 7th 2011 by Routledge
3. Thinking about Global Governance

   Why People and Ideas Matter

   By Thomas G. Weiss

   One of the more prolific and influential analysts of multilateral approaches to global problem-solving over the last three decades is Thomas G. Weiss. Thinking about Global Governance, Why People and Ideas Matter, assembles key scholarly and policy writing. This collection organizes his most...

   Published August 1st 2011 by Routledge
4. Humanitarianism Contested

   Where Angels Fear to Tread

   By Michael Barnett, Thomas G. Weiss

   Series: Global Institutions

   This book provides a succinct but sophisticated understanding of humanitarianism and insight into the on-going dilemmas and tensions that have accompanied it since its origins in the early nineteenth century. Combining theoretical and historical exposition with a broad range of contemporary case...

   Published February 17th 2011 by Routledge
5. Internal Displacement

   Conceptualization and its Consequences

   By Thomas G. Weiss, David A. Korn

   Series: Global Institutions

   This new volume traces the normative, legal, institutional, and political responses to the challenges of assisting and protecting internally displaced persons (IDPs). The crisis of IDPs was first confronted in the 1980s, and the problems of those suffering from this type of forced migration has...

   Published June 21st 2006 by Routledge
6. The Wars on Terrorism and Iraq

   Human Rights, Unilateralism and US Foreign Policy

   Edited by Margaret Crahan, John Goering, Thomas G. Weiss

   'If I had the power to do so, I would make this book compulsory reading for all who exercise political power in our world today! Instead, I will keep my fingers crossed that it will be read by as many members of Congress and of the current US administration as possible, and by a wide cross-section...

   Published March 10th 2004 by Routledge