Human Rights Books

New and Published Books

1. Institutional Legacies of Communism

   Change and Continuities in Minority Protection

   Edited by Timofey Agarin, Karl Cordell, Alexander Osipov

   Series: Routledge Advances in European Politics

   Twenty years after the demise of communist policy, this book evaluates the continuing communist legacies in the current minority protection systems and legislations across a number of states in post-communist Europe. The fall of communism and the process of democratisation across post-communist...

   Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
2. Understanding European Movements

   New Social Movements, Global Justice Struggles, Anti-Austerity Protest

   Edited by Cristina Flesher Fominaya, Laurence Cox

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   European social movements have been central to European history, politics, society and culture, and have had a global reach and impact. Yet they have rarely been taken on their own terms in the English-language literature, considered rather as counterpoints to the US experience. This has been...

   Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
3. Rules, Politics, and the International Criminal Court

   Committing to the Court

   By Yvonne Dutton

   Series: Global Institutions

   In this new work, Dutton examines the ICC and whether and how its enforcement mechanism influences state membership and the court’s ability to realize treaty goals, examining questions such as: Why did states decide to create the ICC and design the institution with this uniquely strong...

   Published May 8th 2013 by Routledge
4. Combating Economic Crimes

   Balancing Competing Rights and Interests in Prosecuting the Crime of Illicit Enrichment

   By Ndiva Kofele-Kale

   Series: Routledge Research in Transnational Crime and Criminal Law

   In the last decade a new tool has been developed in the global war against official corruption through the introduction of the offense of "illicit enrichment" in almost every multilateral anti-corruption convention. Illicit enrichment is defined in these conventions to include a reverse burden...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
5. Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region

   Towards Institution Building

   Edited by Hitoshi Nasu, Ben Saul

   Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

   The Asia-Pacific is known for having the least developed regional mechanisms for protecting human rights. This edited collection makes a timely and distinctive contribution to contemporary debates about building institutions for human rights protection in the Asia-Pacific region, in the wake of...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
6. Migrant Politics and Mobilisation

   Exclusion, Engagements, Incorporation

   Edited by Davide Pero, John Solomos

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   In recent years immigration and the integration of migrants and minorities have become politicised in public and policy debates in Britain, the rest of Europe and the United States. In such debates, migrants are commonly treated as objects of politics and spoken in terms of management, national...

   Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
7. Genocide Matters

   Ongoing Issues and Emerging Perspectives

   Edited by Joyce Apsel, Ernesto Verdeja

   This edited book provides an interdisciplinary overview of recent scholarship in the field of genocide studies. The book examines four main areas: The current state of research on genocide New thinking on the categories and methods of mass violence Developments in teaching about genocide...

   Published April 21st 2013 by Routledge
8. Democracy and Violence

   Global Debates and Local Challenges

   Edited by John Schwarzmantel, Hendrik Kraetzschmar

   Illustrated most dramatically by the events of 9/11 and the subsequent ‘war on terror’, violence represents a challenge to democratic politics and to the establishment of liberal-democratic regimes. Liberal-democracies have themselves not hesitated to use violence and restrict civil liberties as a...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
9. Sedition and the Advocacy of Violence

   Free Speech and Counter-Terrorism

   By Sarah Sorial

   This book employs the theoretical framework of ‘speech act theory’ to analyse current legislative frameworks and cases pertaining to sedition or the advocacy of violence and the issue of freedom of speech. An analysis of the relation between speech and action offers a promising way of clarifying...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
10. Counter-terrorism and the Detention of Suspected Terrorists

    Preventive Detention and International Human Rights Law

    By Claire Macken

    Series: Routledge Research in Terrorism and the Law

    In a regional, national and global response to terrorism, the emphasis necessarily lies on preventing the next terrorist act. Yet, with prevention comes prediction: the need to identify and detain those considered likely to engage in a terrorist act in the future. The detention of ‘suspected...

    Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge