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  • Rethinking Children's Citizenship Rethinking Children's Citizenship
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    Rethinking Children's Citizenship

    Citizenship is a phenomenon that encompasses the relationships between the state and individuals, rights and responsibilities and identity and nationhood. Yet the relationship between citizenship and childhood has gone relatively unexplored. This book...
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  • Security, Citizenship and Human Rights Security, Citizenship and Human Rights
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    Security, Citizenship and Human Rights

    This book examines counter-terrorism, immigration, citizenship, human rights, "equalities" and the shifting discourses of "shared values" and human rights in contemporary Britain.
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  • The European Minority Rights Regime The European Minority Rights Regime
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    The European Minority Rights Regime

    Evaluates the nature of the international governance of minority rights in the context of the enlargement of the European Union. This book examines the origin and development of the European Minority Rights Regime paying particular attention to the...
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  • Human Trafficking in Europe Human Trafficking in Europe
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    Human Trafficking in Europe

    This book focuses on human trafficking in Europe for labour and sexual exploitation. It includes empirical work on trafficking throughout Europe, identifying underlying causes in globalisation, migration policies and gender inequality. It questions...
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  • Civic Constitution Civic Constitution
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    Civic Constitution

    How have generations of Americans debated and shaped the constitutional meanings of liberty, equality, justice, and "We, the people"? What roles have engaged citizens and social movements played in effecting transformative constitutional...
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  • Problems of Protection Problems of Protection
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    Problems of Protection

    First Published in 2003. Of all the humanitarian impulses in world politics today, one of the most widely recognized is the need to protect refugees. However, as The Problems of Protection explores, what on the surface appears to be a simple...
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  • Security, Risk and the Biometric State Security, Risk and the Biometric State
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    Security, Risk and the Biometric State

    This book examines a series of questions associated with the increasing application and implications of biometrics in contemporary everyday life. In the wake of the events of 9/11, the reliance on increasingly sophisticated and invasive technologies...
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  • Civil Society, Religion and Global Governance Civil Society, Religion and Global Governance
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    Civil Society, Religion and Global Governance

    This is one of the first books to explore the nexus between civil society, religion, and global governance, their impact on human security and well-being, and significance for current debates in international politics. The contributors examine salient...
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  • Ngo's and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Ngo's and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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    Ngo's and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

    When the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted 50 years ago, Eleanor Roosevelt, its principal architect, predicted that a "curious grapevine" would carry its message behind barbed wire and stone walls. This book tells the extraordinary story...
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  • The Fight for the Right to Food The Fight for the Right to Food
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    The Fight for the Right to Food

    This book documents and analyzes the experiences of the United Nation's first Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. It highlights the conceptual advances in the legal understanding of the right to food in international human rights law, and analyzes...
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  • The European Union and Multilateral Governance The European Union and Multilateral Governance
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    The European Union and Multilateral Governance

    An interdisciplinary approach to the study of the EU in UN human rights and environmental governance which addresses the legal and political science dimensions. With contributions from academics and policy-makers, this volume is a comprehensive analysis...
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  • Affirmative Action in Plural Societies Affirmative Action in Plural Societies
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    Affirmative Action in Plural Societies

    Through the application of public opinion, interview, and printmedia analyses, this book provides evidence that the state of transnational identification among citizens in the EU as a result of postMaastricht integration measures, such as the completion...
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  • Children's Rights in International Politics Children's Rights in International Politics
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    Children's Rights in International Politics

    This book provides an insight into a lively field of international human rights politics -- the protection of children and their rights -- focusing on the negotiations leading to the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Anna Holzscheiter uses a...
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  • Balancing Liberty and Security Balancing Liberty and Security
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    Balancing Liberty and Security

    Globalization and technology have altered public fears and changed expectations of how government should make people safer. This book analyzes how Europeans and Americans perceive and regulate risk. The authors show how public fears about risk are...
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  • The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Movement The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Movement
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    The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Movement

    This book provides the results of research conducted with members of the Israeli-Palestinian peace movement Combatants for Peace. This organization was formed in 2005 through the unlikely partnering of Palestinians who had formerly participated in...
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  • Human Rights in the Middle East Human Rights in the Middle East
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    Human Rights in the Middle East

    Exploring the most formidable human rights challenges facing the Middle East - the rights of women, minorities, migrant workers, and those of various sexual orientations, and the rights of all people to engage in civil disobedience - this volume...
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  • Phantom Democracy Phantom Democracy
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    Phantom Democracy

    In a powerful new book, Boggs traces the historical evolution of American politics by focusing on the gradual triumph of corporate and military power over democratic institutions and practices. The consequences of expanding United States global presence...
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  • Conflict and Human Security in Africa Conflict and Human Security in Africa
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    Conflict and Human Security in Africa

    The tragedy of poverty is that it happens in a wealthy world. Despite global prosperity unrivalled in human history, a new wave of dramatic crises at the turn of the millennium is evident in armed conflict, civil unrest, ethnic violence, disease and...
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  • The Genocide Debate The Genocide Debate
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    The Genocide Debate

    An exploration of the political constraints and imperatives that motivate debates about genocide in the academic world and, to a lesser extent, policy choices in the political arena, this book is an analysis of the ways that political interests shape...
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  • Armenian History and the Question of Genocide Armenian History and the Question of Genocide
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    Armenian History and the Question of Genocide

    This book presents the Turkish position regarding the Armenian claims of genocide during World War I and the continuing debate over this issue. The author illustrates that although genocide is a useful concept to describe such evil events as the Jewish...
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  • Islam and the Path to Human and Economic Development Islam and the Path to Human and Economic Development
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    Islam and the Path to Human and Economic Development

    There is a cognitive deficit between the holistic vision for human and societal development in Islam and the results achieved by Muslim societies. The authors begin by looking at the Western concept of development, which in recent years has recognized...
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  • Ethnic Identity and National Conflict in China Ethnic Identity and National Conflict in China
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    Ethnic Identity and National Conflict in China

    With links to the global jihad, the indigenous insurgency and terrorism in Xinjiang challenges the security and stability of China. This book examines the prevailing scholarship on ethnic and minority conflicts and argues that the root cause of the...
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  • Mass Surveillance and State Control Mass Surveillance and State Control
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    Mass Surveillance and State Control

    A global system of mass, warrantless, government surveillance now imperils privacy and other civil liberties essential to sustaining the free world. This project to unilaterally, totally control information flow is a product of complex, ongoing interplay...
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  • The Capacity for Civic Engagement The Capacity for Civic Engagement
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    The Capacity for Civic Engagement

    How do we form a connection to the ideals and institutions of public life? This connection is sometimes expressed in the language of civic engagement, public service, and commitment to the public good. While we do not lack for literature to guide us in...
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  • Emergency Contraception Emergency Contraception
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    Emergency Contraception

    Globally, more than one fourth of all pregnancies are unintended. Emergency contraceptives are medications or devices that can be used after sex to reduce the risk of pregnancy. But despite their safety and efficacy, emergency contraceptive pills have...
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  • International Ethnic Networks and Intra-Ethnic Conflict International Ethnic Networks and Intra-Ethnic Conflict
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    International Ethnic Networks and Intra-Ethnic Conflict

    This book is devoted to Israel's asymmetric wars, those conducted against irregular armed groups that have attacked it. It seeks to understand the Israeli strategy in the fight against terrorists acting under the guise of civilians or using the...
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  • The Plight of the Palestinians The Plight of the Palestinians
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    The Plight of the Palestinians

    The Plight of the Palestinians: a Long History of Destruction is a collection of voices from around the world that establishes in both theoretical and graphic terms the slow, methodical genocide taking place in Palestine beginning in the 1940s, as...
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  • Dual Citizenship in Global Perspective Dual Citizenship in Global Perspective
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    Dual Citizenship in Global Perspective

    Sovereign states have increasingly tolerated dual citizenship. This is surprising considering that, until recently, citizenship and political loyalty to a state were still considered inseparable. In an age of increasing transnational insecurity,...
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  • From Disgust to Humanity From Disgust to Humanity
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    From Disgust to Humanity

    A distinguished professor of law and philosophy at the University of Chicago, a prolific writer and award-winning thinker, Martha Nussbaum stands as one of our foremost authorities on law, justice, freedom, morality, and emotion. In From Disgust to...
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  • Notre Dame vs. The Klan Notre Dame vs. The Klan
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    Notre Dame vs. The Klan

    In 1924, two uniquely American institutions clashed in northern Indiana: the University of Notre Dame and the Ku Klux Klan. Todd Tucker's book, published for the first time in paperback, Notre Dame vs. The Klan tells the shocking story of the three-day...
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  • Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory
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    Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory

    The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory provides a rich overview of the analytical frameworks and theoretical concepts that feminist theorists have developed to analyze the known world. Featuring leading feminist theorists from diverse regions of the...
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    Our Greatest Challenge
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    Our Greatest Challenge

    Hannah McGlade's new book bravely addresses the complex and fraught issue of Aboriginal child abuse. She argues that Aboriginal child sexual assault has been formed within the entrenched societal forces of racism, colonisation and patriarchy, yet cast in...
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  • Hey Mum, What's a Half-Caste?
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    Hey Mum, What's a Half-Caste?

    Lorraine McGee-Sippel was just a small girl when she asked her parents what a half-caste was. It was the 1950s and the first step on a journey that would span decades and lead her to search for her birth family. In the historic climate of the Rudd...
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