Solidarity manifest in Urban Ghana
‘We believe in sharing, and we want what our God has put in us to be seen’. The entire group nods in agreement with the words of William Mensah, founder of the Pace Setters youth group. Arriving late...
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A Critical Introduction to the ‘Legalisation of World Politics’
Contrary to realist expectations, states have frequently engaged in institutionalised co-operation even under conditions of anarchy.
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Review — The Justice Cascade
For two decades now Kathyrn Sikkink has been a leading scholar of human rights in world politics. The Justice Cascade is perhaps her most ambitious work to date.
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Student Book Features: Human Rights and International Law
The realist view of law and human rights is rapidly going out of fashion. In its place liberal, constructivist and critical theories have come to the fore.
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Review – The New Historiography of Human Rights
Human rights history matters for IR debates. Different theories of human rights depend upon different (more or less explicit) historical accounts of their genesis.
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Review – The Massacres at Mt. Halla
Hun Joon Kim's analysis represents a welcome and well-written, but ultimately very partial, view of the search for 'comprehensive truth' in South Korea.
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Review – The New Terrain of International Law: Courts, Politics, Rights
Some lack of definition in Alter's book does not diminish her valiant and highly successful effort to sketch the architecture of the international legal regime.
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