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Industrial Subsidies and Friction in World Tradeby Rambod Behboodi
Routledge 1994; US$ 185.00This book offers a comparative analysis of a number of instruments devised to regulate industrial subsidies and lessen the effects of countervailing duties. more...
Civil Disobedience in Focusby Hugo Adam Bedau
Routledge 1991; US$ 49.95An assessment of the philosophical arguments on the issues surrounding civil disobedience. The contributions include classic essays from Rawls, Raz and Singer. more...
Anti-Lawyersby David Saunders
Routledge 1997; US$ 196.00Anti-Lawyers discusses how we should regard todays's critics of law and government in the light of the historical still unfinished struggle to separate the legal regulation of civil life from the Christian regulation of conscience. more...
Global Governance, Economy and Lawby Errol P. Mendes; Ozay Mehmet
Routledge 2003; US$ 180.00Using history, political science, law and economics, this book examines important institutions of global governance including the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. more...
Democratization and the Judiciaryby Roberto Gargarella; Siri Gloppen; Elin Skaar
Frank Cass 2004; US$ 47.50This title examines the political role of courts in new democracies in Latin America and Africa, focusing on their ability to hold political power-holders accountable when they act outside their constitutionally defined powers. The book also issues a warning: There are problems inherent in the current global move towards strong constitutional government, where increasingly strong powers are placed in the hands of judges who themselves are not made accountable. more...
A World Made Newby Mary Ann Glendon
Random House Publishing Group 2001; US$ 11.99A World Made New tells the dramatic story of the struggle to build, out of the trauma and wreckage of World War II, a document that would ensure it would never happen again. There was an almost religious intensity to the project, championed by Eleanor Roosevelt under the aegis of the newly formed United nations and brought into being by an extraordinary group of men and women who knew, like the framers of the Declaration of Independence, that they were making history. They worked against the clock, the brief window between the end of World War II and the deep freeze of the cold war, to forget the founding document of the modern rights movement. A distinguished professor of international law, Mary Ann Glendon was given exclusive access... more...
Benthamby James Steintrager
Routledge 2003; US$ 218.00First published in 1977 this volume challenges the accepted interpretations of Bentham's political thought and in particular the landmark criticism by John Stuart Mill and Elie Halevy. more...
Role of Human Rights in Foreign Policyby Peter R. Baehr; Dr Monique Castermans-Holleman
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2003; US$ 109.00Governments use human rights both as a tool and as an objective of foreign policy. The Role of Human Rights in Foreign Policy analyses conflicting policy goals such as peace and security, economic relations and development co-operation. The use of diplomatic, economic and military means is discussed, together with the role of state actors, intergovernmental organizations and non-state actors. more...
Rethinking Human Rightsby Dr David Chandler
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2002; US$ 140.00Rethinking Human Rights brings together a team of authors from fields as diverse as political theory, peace studies, international law and media studies - concerned with a new international agenda of human rights promotion. The collection presents an original and tightly argued critique of current trends and deals with a range of questions concerning the implication of human rights approaches for humanitarian aid, state sovereignty, international law, democracy and political autonomy. more...
The Judicial Application of Human Rights Lawby Nihal Jayawickrama
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 236.00Jayawickrama explores the judicial interpretation of human rights law, incorporating case law from over eighty countries, and the UN, European, and Inter-American human rights monitoring systems. A definitive compendium essential for legal practitioners, government and non-governmental officials, academics and students of constitutional law and the international law of human rights. more...









