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May 13, 2024
Governing After War
Governing After War: Rebel Victories and Post-war Statebuilding (Oxford University Press, 2024) by Dr. Shelley X. Liu explores how wartime processes a…
April 18, 2024
Recognition Politics
Recognition Politics: Indigenous Rights and Ethnic Conflict in the Andes (Cambridge University Press, 2023) by Dr. Lorenza B. Fontana is a pioneering …
April 16, 2024
Rights Refused
Over three years have passed since a military coup of February 2021 in Myanmar precipitated a popular uprising that has since transformed into a revol…
March 27, 2024
Freedom Undone
"What happened in Hong Kong is not an anomaly but a warning" - Hong Kong Human Rights defender Chow Hang Tung, speech written from prison upon receivi…
March 22, 2024
International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic Accountability
In the 1990s, the promise of justice for atrocity crimes was associated with the revival of international criminal tribunals (ICTs). More recently, ho…
March 18, 2024
Right to Reparations
Right to Reparations: The Claims Conference and Holocaust Survivors, 1951–1964 (Lexington, 2021) examines the early years of the Claims Conference, th…
March 18, 2024
Selective Security in the War on Drugs
Paramilitaries, crime, and tens of thousands of disappeared persons—the so-called war on drugs has perpetuated violence in Latin America, at times pre…
March 8, 2024
Blissful Blindness
The most heinous Soviet crimes - the Red Terror, brutal collectivization, the Great Famine, the Gulag, Stalin's Great Terror, mass deportations, and o…
March 7, 2024
The Reeducation of Race
NYU professor Sonali Thakkar’s brilliant first book, The Reeducation of Race: Jewishness and the Politics of Antiracism in Postcolonial Thought (Stanf…
February 27, 2024
Latent Memory
In the first half of the twentieth century, Jewish immigrants and refugees sought to rebuild their lives in Chile. Despite their personal histories of…
February 26, 2024
The Human Rights Dictatorship
In The Human Rights Dictatorship: Socialism, Global Solidarity and Revolution in East Germany (Cambridge UP, 2020), Ned Richardson-Little exposes the …
February 24, 2024
Dying for Rights
“The things that are happening to North Korea are happening to all of us…they are part of the human community. To say that this is just a problem for …
February 21, 2024
Slavery and Islam
In his majestic and encyclopedic new book Slavery and Islam (Oneworld Academic, 2019), Jonathan A. C. Brown presents a sweeping analysis of Muslim int…
February 20, 2024
Liberty in the Things of God
Robert Louis Wilken, the William R. Kenan Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia, has written an intellectual…
February 9, 2024
The Justice Laboratory
Ever since World War II, the United Nations and other international actors have created laws, treaties, and institutions to punish perpetrators of gen…
February 3, 2024
Dignity Not Debt
American households have a debt problem. The problem is not, as often claimed, that Americans recklessly take on too much debt. The problem is that US…
January 28, 2024
Until I Find You
The poignant saga of Guatemala's adoption industry: an international marketplace for children, built on a foundation of inequality, war, and Indigenou…
January 18, 2024
Gandhi's Global Legacy
While there has been sustained interest in Gandhi's methods and continued academic inquiry, Gandhi's Global Legacy: Moral Methods and Modern Challenge…
January 14, 2024
Addressing Modern Slavery
Before you left your house this morning, chances are that you used products and consumed goods that were produced by modern slavery. From the coffee y…
January 12, 2024
Assad
In Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny (Picador, 2023), Con Coughlin, veteran commentator on war in the Middle East and author of Saddam: The Secret Life, e…