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  • Life-Changing Cross-Cultural Friendships Life-Changing Cross-Cultural Friendships
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    Life-Changing Cross-Cultural Friendships

    After decades of knowing each other, bestselling author Gary Chapman and counselor and diversity trainer Dr. Clarence Shuler have come to believe that if each of us formed Life-Changing Cross-Cultural Friendships, it would radically transform race...
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  • Rwanda's Gamble Rwanda's Gamble
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    Rwanda's Gamble

    Gacaca is an innovative form of justice that the Rwandan government will use to try the more than 100,000 participants in the 1994 genocide. Instead of putting suspects before the statutory-law courts that existed prior to 1994, the government is...
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  • Refugee Externalisation Policies Refugee Externalisation Policies
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    Refugee Externalisation Policies

    This book examines the impact and effects of refugee externalisation policies in two regions: Australia's border control practices in Southeast Asia and the Pacific and the activities of the European Union and its member states in North Africa. The book...
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  • Gender, Conflict and International Humanitarian Law Gender, Conflict and International Humanitarian Law
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    Gender, Conflict and International Humanitarian Law

    This book conducts a gendered critique of the 'principle of distinction' in international humanitarian law (IHL), with a focus on recent conflicts in Africa.The 'principle of distinction' is core to IHL, and regulates who can and cannot be targeted in...
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  • Australia's Refugee Politics in the 21st Century Australia's Refugee Politics in the 21st Century
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    Australia's Refugee Politics in the 21st Century

    Boat arrivals have defined and divided 21st-century Australia. This book examines the 'Stop the Boats' era from between the 2013 and 2022 federal elections. During this time the dominant political view has been that to accept a single boat, family or...
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  • Memory of Silence Memory of Silence
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    Memory of Silence

    Memory of Silence is an edited one-volume version of the Guatemalan Truth Commission report, presenting the definitive account of one of the most brutal cases of government repression in the Western Hemisphere, a thirty-four year conflict forged by the...
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  • Representing Masculinity Representing Masculinity
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    Representing Masculinity

    The idea that citizenship was the right of all humanity emerged during the French Revolution. However, this right was limited by gender, class and race. Studying Europe and its colonies and the United States, this book analyzes images of masculine...
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  • Honor Killings in the Twenty-First Century Honor Killings in the Twenty-First Century
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    Honor Killings in the Twenty-First Century

    Thousands of women are murdered every year by close relatives for allegedly violating an unwritten social code or rebelling against the patriarchal order. Other harmful practices such as forced marriage, child marriage, or bride exchange have been...
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  • Human Rights, Migration, and Social Conflict Human Rights, Migration, and Social Conflict
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    Human Rights, Migration, and Social Conflict

    Social conflict involving migrants, which includes terrorism, migrant trafficking and kidnappings, and riots and the occupation of public places, is a direct result of the systematic refusal of receiving countries to recognize that migrants have...
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  • Nationalism and Human Rights Nationalism and Human Rights
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    Nationalism and Human Rights

    This collection of essays explores the relationship between nationalism and human rights by probing from various angles the nature of nationalism and the normative orientation of human rights. By critically addressing the tension between nationalism and...
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  • Human Rights Journalism Human Rights Journalism
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    Human Rights Journalism

    Shaw argues that journalism should focus on deconstructing the underlying structural and cultural causes of political violence such as poverty, famineandhuman trafficking,and play a proactive (preventative), rather than reactive (prescriptive) role in...
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  • Realizing Freedom Realizing Freedom
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    Realizing Freedom

    A first in English, this book engages with the ways in which Hegel and Sartre answer the difficult questions: What is it to be human? What place do we have in the world? How should we live? What can we be?
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  • Children's Rights from Below Children's Rights from Below
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    Children's Rights from Below

    The authors in this volume analyze spiritual kinship in Europe from the end of the Middle Ages to the Industrial Age. Uniquely comparing Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox views and practices, the chapters look at changes in theological thought over time...
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  • Non-Governmental Public Action and Social Justice Non-Governmental Public Action and Social Justice
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    Non-Governmental Public Action and Social Justice

    The Arab Spring put non-governmental public action centre-stage in the drive for greater social justice. Governments, politicians and international institutions increasingly court non-governmental public actors, engaging them in policy dialogue, inviting...
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  • The North American Review V179, Part 2 (1904) The North American Review V179, Part 2 (1904)
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    The North American Review V179, Part 2 (1904)

    The North American Review V179, Part 2 (1904) is a collection of essays, articles, and reviews published by the North American Review Corporation in 1904. The book covers a wide range of topics, including politics, economics, literature, and social...
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  • The North American Review V174, Part 1 (1902) The North American Review V174, Part 1 (1902)
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    The North American Review V174, Part 1 (1902)

    The North American Review V174, Part 1 (1902) is a collection of essays, articles, and reviews published by the North American Review Corporation. This volume contains a wide range of topics, including political and social issues, literature and the...
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  • Disappearances in Mexico Disappearances in Mexico
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    Disappearances in Mexico

    This volume presents an interdisciplinary analysis of the practice of disappearances in Mexico, from the period of the so-called 'dirty war' to the current crisis of disappearances associated with the country's 'war on drugs', during which more than...
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  • Counterterrorism Strategies in Egypt Counterterrorism Strategies in Egypt
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    Counterterrorism Strategies in Egypt

    This book reveals how counterterrorism discourses and practices became the main tool of a systematic violation of human rights in Egypt after the Arab Uprising.It examines how the civic and democratic uprising in Egypt turned into robust authoritarianism...
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  • The Human Rights Reader The Human Rights Reader
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    The Human Rights Reader

    The third edition of The Human Rights Reader presents a variety of new primary documents and readings and elaborates the exploration of rights in the areas of race, gender, refugees, climate, Artificial Intelligence, drones and cyber security, and...
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  • The New Political Economy of Pharmaceuticals The New Political Economy of Pharmaceuticals
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    The New Political Economy of Pharmaceuticals

    Some two decades will shortly have passed since the WTO's Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights agreement came into force in 1995. TRIPS is widely considered to have had a negative impact on access to medicines through its rules on...
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  • Gun Debate Gun Debate
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    Gun Debate

    Guns in America: What Everyone Needs to Know takes readers on a tour of the issues that Americans debate when they talk about guns. The volume includes information on gun control pertaining to U.S. history, jurisprudence, cultural beliefs, political...
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  • Civil Societies and Social Movements Civil Societies and Social Movements
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    Civil Societies and Social Movements

    This volume examines and contributes to debates surrounding social capital, social movements and the role of civil society in emerging forms of governance. The authors adopt a broad range of research approaches, from testing hypotheses drawn from...
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  • Global Empowerment of Women Global Empowerment of Women
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    Global Empowerment of Women

    The empowerment of women is a broadly endorsed strategy for solving a host of difficult problems, from child poverty to gender violence to international development. The seventeen international scholars in this multi-disciplinary volume offer thoughtful...
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  • Human Rights and Empire Human Rights and Empire
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    Human Rights and Empire

    Erudite and timely, this book is a key contribution to the renewal of radical theory and politics. Addressing the paradox of a contemporary humanitarianism that has abandoned politics in favour of combating evil, Douzinas, a leading scholar and...
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  • War Crimes Tribunals and Transitional Justice War Crimes Tribunals and Transitional Justice
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    War Crimes Tribunals and Transitional Justice

    Advocates of the 'Nuremberg legacy' emphasize the positive impact of the individualization of responsibility and the establishment of an historical record through judicial procedures for 'war crimes'. This legacy has been cited in the context of the...
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  • Human Rights Controversies Human Rights Controversies
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    Human Rights Controversies

    Many countries confront similar human rights controversies, but, despite the claimed universality of human rights values they are not always resolved in the same way. Why? What role do local legal conditions play? Is human rights discourse more potent...
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  • Freedom and Culture in Western Society Freedom and Culture in Western Society
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    Freedom and Culture in Western Society

    Critically examining conceptions of freedom of some of the leading contemporary philosophers from Isaiah Berlin to Charles Taylor, Hans Blokland explores the value and significance that freedom has acquired on our political consciousness. He looks...
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  • Privacy and Technologies of Identity Privacy and Technologies of Identity
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    Privacy and Technologies of Identity

    Privacy and Technologies of Identity: A Cross-Disciplinary Conversation provides an overview of ways in which technological changes raise privacy concerns. It then addresses four major areas of technology: RFID and location...
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  • African-American Political Psychology African-American Political Psychology
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    African-American Political Psychology

    Decades of research in both political science and psychology have demonstrated that external, environmental factors influence individuals' mental processes, especially as they relate to politics. Inasmuch as such factors vary systematically across...
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  • Language, Citizenship and Identity in Quebec Language, Citizenship and Identity in Quebec
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    Language, Citizenship and Identity in Quebec

    Globalization is calling for new conceptualizations of belonging within culturally diverse communities. Quebec, driven by the pressures of maintaining Francophone identity and accommodating migrant groups, provides a fascinating case study of how to...
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  • Hindu Nationalism in India and the Politics of Fear Hindu Nationalism in India and the Politics of Fear
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    Hindu Nationalism in India and the Politics of Fear

    Hindutva in India is a chauvinist and majoritarian political ideology that conjures up the image of a peaceful Hindu Self vis-à-vis the threatening minority Other. It is porno-nationalism in its obsessive preoccupation with the predatory sexuality of the...
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  • Human Rights, Development and Decolonization Human Rights, Development and Decolonization
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    Human Rights, Development and Decolonization

    An innovative diplomatic and intellectual history of decolonization, post-colonial nation building and international human rights and development discourses, this study of the role of the ILO during 1940-70 opens up new perspectives on the significance...
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  • Human Rights and Migration Human Rights and Migration
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    Human Rights and Migration

    Human Rights and Migration outlines the interplay between human rights and migration regimes in the wider context of trafficking for forced labour. It combines rigorous analysis with country studies from across Europe. The book is divided into three...
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  • Gender in Transitional Justice Gender in Transitional Justice
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    Gender in Transitional Justice

    Based on original empirical research, this book explores retributive and gender justice, the potentials and limits of agency, and the correlation of transitional justice and social change through case studies of current dynamics in post-violence...
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  • Political Allegiance After European Integration Political Allegiance After European Integration
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    Political Allegiance After European Integration

    How should political community be seen in the context of European integration? This book combines a theoretical treatment of political allegiance with a study of ordinary citizens, examining how taxi-drivers in Britain, Germany and the Czech Republic...
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