New Books in Human Rights
Episodes
Muhammad H. Zaman, "We Wait for a Miracle: Health Care and the Forcibly Displaced" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Around the world, millions are forcibly displaced by conflict, climate change, and persecution. Some cross international borders, while others are dis...
Samuel Fury Childs Daly, "Soldier's Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire" (Duke UP, 2024)
16 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Soldier's Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire (Duke UP, 2024), Samuel Fury Childs Daly tells the story of how Africa’s military dictato...
Nandini Sundar, "The Burning Forest: India's War In Bastar" (Verso, 2019)
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Burning Forest: India's War Against the Maoists (Verso, 2019) by Nandini Sundar is an empathetic, moving account of what drives indigenous pea...
Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Laura Smith-Khan speaks with Dr Anthea Vogl about her new book, Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination...
Jia Tan, "Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China" (NYU Press, 2023)
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China (NYU Press, 2023) offers a trenchant and singular analysis of the convergence of digital...
Possessed by the Right Hand: The Problem of Slavery in Islamic Law and Muslim Cultures
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we interview Prof. Bernard Freamon on his new book Possessed by the Right Hand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/...
E. L. Gaston, "Illusions of Control: Dilemmas in Managing U.S. Proxy Forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria" (Columbia UP, 2024)
19 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last two decades, the United States has supported a range of militias, rebels, and other armed groups in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. Critic...
Eric R. Schlereth, "Quitting the Nation: Emigrant Rights in North America" (UNC Press, 2024)
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Perceptions of the United States as a nation of immigrants are so commonplace that its history as a nation of emigrants is forgotten. However, once th...
Talking Thai Politics: Kunthika Nutcharut, Defending Disruptors
11 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What is it like to be a human rights lawyer in Thailand? How does the new generation of 2020s political activists differ from those of previous eras? ...
The UN and its Discreet Diplomacy in Peacemaking
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week on International Horizons, RBI Director John Torpey interviews Bertrand Ramcharan, former top UN diplomat and author of the recent book, Th...
Megan Bradley et al., "IOM Unbound?: Obligations and Accountability of the International Organization for Migration in an Era of Expansion" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
05 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It is an era of expansion for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), an increasingly influential actor in the global governance of migrat...
Caterina Fugazzola, "Words Like Water: Queer Mobilization and Social Change in China" (Temple UP, 2023)
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After China officially “decriminalized” same-sex behavior in 1997, both the visibility and public acceptance of tongzhi, an inclusive identity te...
Joanna Allan, "Silenced Resistance: Women, Dictatorships, and Genderwashing in Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea" (U Wisconsin Press, 2019)
20 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Spain's former African colonies-Equatorial Guinea and Western Sahara-share similar histories. Both are under the thumbs of heavy-handed, postcolonial ...
David H. Price, "The American Surveillance State: How the US Spies on Dissent" (Pluto Press, 2022)
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When the possibility of wiretapping first became known to Americans they were outraged. Now, in our post-9/11 world, it's accepted that corporations a...
Robert McCorquodale, "Business and Human Rights" (Oxford UP, 2024)
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Business and Human Rights Law is a rapidly growing area of law, which has dramatically transformed many parts of international law. In this new volume...
Maria Dimova-Cookson, "Rethinking Positive and Negative Liberty" (Routledge, 2019)
19 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Maria Dimova-Cookson's new book Rethinking Positive and Negative Liberty (Routledge, 2019) offers an analysis of the distinction between positive and ...
Nick Grono, "How to Lead Nonprofits: Turning Purpose into Impact to Change the World" (BenBella Books, 2024)
16 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Non-profit organizations play an indispensable role in the world today, and are consistently rated higher than governments, the media or businesses ...
Andrew R. Basso, "Destroy Them Gradually: Displacement as Atrocity" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Perpetrators of mass atrocities have used displacement to transport victims to killing sites or extermination camps to transfer victims to sites of fo...
Thomas A. Kerns and Kathleen Dean Moore, "Bearing Witness: The Human Rights Case Against Fracking and Climate Change" (Oregon State UP, 2021)
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bringing together philosophy, jurisprudence, and a deep concern for the environment, Bearing Witness: The Human Rights Case Against Fracking and Clim...
Rachel M. Scott, "Recasting Islamic Law: Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making" (Cornell UP, 2021)
03 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
By examining the intersection of Islamic law, state law, religion, and culture in the Egyptian nation-building process, Recasting Islamic Law: Religi...
Forgotten Ummah--Muslims in China
02 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is the first of two episodes this season on Muslims in China. Here Claudia Radiven and Chella Ward talk to Darren Blyer about his book T...
Jessica S. Henry, "Smoke But No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes that Never Happened" (U California Press, 2021)
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jessica Henry's Smoke But No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes that Never Happened (U California Press, 2021) explores a shocking but all-too...
Benjamin Nathans, "To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement" (Princeton UP, 2024)
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A gripping history of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR--and still provides a model of opposition in Putin's Russia. B...
Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg and Hélène Tigroudja, "Women’s Human Rights and the Elimination of Discrimination" (Brill/Nijhoff, 2016)
28 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Despite global undertakings to safeguard the full enjoyment of human rights, culture, traditional practices and religion are widely used to discrimina...
Lucia Hulsether, "Capitalist Humanitarianism" (Duke UP, 2023)
21 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The struggle against neoliberal order has gained momentum over the last five decades – to the point that economic elites have not only adapted to th...
Kristen R. Ghodsee, "Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women's Activism and Global Solidarity during the Cold War" (Duke UP, 2019)
14 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, I had the privilege to talk with Dr. Kristen R. Ghodsee about her most recent book Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women's Activism and...
Carl Öhman, "The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
14 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A short, thought-provoking book about what happens to our online identities after we die. These days, so much of our lives takes place online—but wh...
Maya Wind, "Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom" (Verso, 2024)
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Israeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as liberal bastions of freedom and democracy. Drawing on extensive research and making Hebrew sour...
Maya Pagni Barak, "The Slow Violence of Immigration Court: Procedural Justice on Trial" (NYU Press, 2023)
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Each year, hundreds of thousands of migrants are moved through immigration court. With a national backlog surpassing one million cases, court hearings...
Aram Sinnreich and Jesse Gilbert, "The Secret Life of Data: Navigating Hype and Uncertainty in the Age of Algorithmic Surveillance" (MIT Press, 2024)
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What is data, and why does it matter for us to care about the data traces we leave behind? What are the implications for our lives of how this data is...
Laura Robson, "Human Capital: A History of Putting Refugees to Work" (Verso, 2023)
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Americans and other citizens of advanced capitalist countries think of humanitarianism, they think of charitable efforts to help people displaced...
Ailbhe O'Loughlin, "Law and Personality Disorder: Human Rights, Human Risks, and Rehabilitation" (Oxford UP, 2024)
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Law and Personality Disorder: Human Rights, Human Risks, and Rehabilitation (Oxford UP, 2024), Dr Ailbhe O'Loughlin considers the controversia...
Michelle Gordon and Rachel O ́Sullivan, "Colonial Paradigms of Violence: Comparative Analysis of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Mass Killing" (Wallstein, 2022)
29 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In recent years, scholars have rediscovered Hannah Arendt`s "boomerang thesis" – the "coming home" of European colonialism as genocide on European s...
Julia Wojnowska-Radzińska, "Implications of Pre-Emptive Data Surveillance for Fundamental Rights in the European Union" (Brill Nijhoff, 2023)
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Implications of Pre-Emptive Data Surveillance for Fundamental Rights in the European Union (Brill Nijhoff, 2023) Julia Wojnowska-Radzińska offer...
Michele Goodwin, "Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
08 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood (Cambridge University Press, 2020) a brilliant but shocking account of the cr...
Wendy Pearlman, "The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora" (Liveright, 2024)
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 2011, Syrians took to the streets demanding freedom. Brutal government repression transformed peaceful protests into one of the most devastating co...
We Should Not Take the UN For Granted: A Discussion with Abiodun Williams
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In times where conflicts around the globe are an everyday topic, the place of the United Nations in resolving these conflicts is constantly being ques...
Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp, "Disability Worlds" (Duke UP, 2024)
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Disability Worlds (Duke UP, 2024), Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp chronicle and theorize two decades of immersion in New York City’s wide-ranging...
Gary J. Bass, "Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia" (Knopf, 2023)
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In December 1948, a panel of 12 judges sentenced 23 Japanese officials for war crimes. Seven, including former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, were senten...
Vanessa Walker, "Principles in Power: Latin America and the Politics of U.S. Human Rights Diplomacy" (Cornell UP, 2020)
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Vanessa Walker's Principles in Power: Latin America and the Politics of U. S. Human Rights Diplomacy (Cornell University Press, 2020) explores the r...
Lisa Bhungalia, "Elastic Empire: Refashioning War Through Aid in Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2023)
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The United States integrated counterterrorism mandates into its aid flows in the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the early years of the global war on ...
Shelley X. Liu, "Governing After War: Rebel Victories and Post-War Statebuilding" (Oxford UP, 2024)
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Governing After War: Rebel Victories and Post-war Statebuilding (Oxford University Press, 2024) by Dr. Shelley X. Liu explores how wartime processes ...
Ian Johnson, "Sparks: China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future" (Oxford UP, 2023)
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Even as most contemporary states look to history in order to legitimize their existence in some way or other, the past – and narrations of it – ho...
Lorenza B. Fontana, "Recognition Politics: Indigenous Rights and Ethnic Conflict in the Andes" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Recognition Politics: Indigenous Rights and Ethnic Conflict in the Andes (Cambridge University Press, 2023) by Dr. Lorenza B. Fontana is a pioneering...
Elliott Prasse-Freeman, "Rights Refused: Grassroots Activism and State Violence in Myanmar" (Stanford UP, 2023)
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Michael Davis, "Freedom Undone: The Assault on Liberal Values in Hong Kong" (Association for Asian Studies, 2023)
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"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...
Patryk I. Labuda, "International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic Accountability" (Oxford UP, 2023)
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1990s, the promise of justice for atrocity crimes was associated with the revival of international criminal tribunals (ICTs). More recently, ho...
Alke Jenss, "Selective Security in the War on Drugs: The Coloniality of State Power in Colombia and Mexico" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Paramilitaries, crime, and tens of thousands of disappeared persons—the so-called war on drugs has perpetuated violence in Latin America, at times p...
Rachel Blumenthal, "Right to Reparations: The Claims Conference and Holocaust Survivors, 1951–1964" (Lexington, 2021)
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Right to Reparations: The Claims Conference and Holocaust Survivors, 1951–1964 (Lexington, 2021) examines the early years of the Claims Conference,...
Dariusz Tołczyk, "Blissful Blindness: Soviet Crimes under Western Eyes" (Indiana UP, 2023)
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The most heinous Soviet crimes - the Red Terror, brutal collectivization, the Great Famine, the Gulag, Stalin's Great Terror, mass deportations, and o...
The Reeducation of Race with Sonali Thakkar (JP)
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
NYU professor Sonali Thakkar’s brilliant first book, The Reeducation of Race: Jewishness and the Politics of Antiracism in Postcolonial Thought (...
Maxine Lowy, "Latent Memory: Human Rights and Jewish Identity in Chile" (U Wisconsin Press, 2022)
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the first half of the twentieth century, Jewish immigrants and refugees sought to rebuild their lives in Chile. Despite their personal histories of...
Ned Richardson-Little, "The Human Rights Dictatorship: Socialism, Global Solidarity and Revolution in East Germany" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In The Human Rights Dictatorship: Socialism, Global Solidarity and Revolution in East Germany (Cambridge UP, 2020), Ned Richardson-Little exposes t...
Sandra Fahy, "Dying for Rights: Putting North Korea’s Human Rights Abuses on the Record" (Columbia UP, 2019)
24 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“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 ...
Jonathan A. C. Brown, "Slavery and Islam" (Oneworld Academic, 2019)
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In his majestic and encyclopedic new book Slavery and Islam (Oneworld Academic, 2019), Jonathan A. C. Brown presents a sweeping analysis of Muslim int...
Robert Louis Wilken, "Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom" (Yale UP, 2019)
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Louis Wilken, the William R. Kenan Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia, has written an intellectual...
Kerstin Bree Carlson, "The Justice Laboratory: International Law in Africa" (Brookings Institution Press, 2022)
09 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ever since World War II, the United Nations and other international actors have created laws, treaties, and institutions to punish perpetrators of gen...
Chrystin Ondersma, "Dignity Not Debt: An Abolitionist Approach to Economic Justice" (U California Press, 2024)
03 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Rachel Nolan, "Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala" (Harvard UP, 2024)
28 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The poignant saga of Guatemala's adoption industry: an international marketplace for children, built on a foundation of inequality, war, and Indigenou...
Veena R. Howard, "Gandhi's Global Legacy: Moral Methods and Modern Challenges" (Lexington Books, 2022)
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
While there has been sustained interest in Gandhi's methods and continued academic inquiry, Gandhi's Global Legacy: Moral Methods and Modern Challeng...
Justine Nolan and Martijn Boersma, "Addressing Modern Slavery" (UNSW Press, 2019)
14 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Con Coughlin, "Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny" (Picador, 2023)
12 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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,...
Jennifer V. Evans, "The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship After Fascism" (Duke UP, 2023)
12 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship After Fascism (Duke UP, 2023), Jennifer V. Evans examines postwar and contemporary German history to bro...
Eva van Roekel, "Phenomenal Justice: Violence and Morality in Argentina" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Phenomenal Justice: Violence and Morality in Argentina (Rutgers University Press, 2020), Eva van Roekel grounds her research in phenomenological an...
Paul F. Diehl et al., "When Peacekeeping Missions Collide: Balancing Multiple Roles in Peace Operations" (Oxford UP, 2023)
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The contemporary world is beset with a wide variety of conflicts, all of which have features without historical precedent. While most accounts of peac...
Melanie Joy, "How to End Injustice Everywhere" (Lantern, 2023)
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this eye-opening and compelling work, psychologist Melanie Joy reveals the common denominator driving all forms of injustice. The mentality that dr...
Rita Kesselring, "Bodies of Truth: Law, Memory, and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa" (Stanford UP, 2017)
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rita Kesselring’s important book Bodies of Truth: Law, Memory, and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Stanford University Press, 2017) see...
Emma Kuby, "Political Survivors: The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps After 1945" (Cornell UP, 2019)
07 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Emma Kuby’s new book, Political Survivors: The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps After 1945 (Cornell UP, 2019) tra...
Katherine M. Marino, "Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement" (UNC Press, 2019)
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Katherine M. Marino is an assistant professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles. Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an Int...
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim, "Decolonizing Human Rights" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In his extensive body of work, Professor Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim challenges both historical interpretations of Islamic Sharia and neo-colonial underst...
Laura Briggs, "Taking Children: A History of American Terror" (U California Press, 2020)
31 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Laura Briggs’s Taking Children: A History of American Terror (University of California Press 2020) is a forceful and captivating book that readers w...
Lynette J. Chua, "The Politics of Rights and Southeast Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Politics of Rights and Southeast Asia (Cambridge UP, 2022) offers an empirically-grounded approach to understanding the mobilisation of rights in...
Paolo Caroli, "Transitional Justice in Italy and the Crimes of Fascism and Nazism" (Routledge, 2022)
11 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Paolo Caroli's book Transitional Justice in Italy and the Crimes of Fascism and Nazism (Routledge, 2022) presents a comprehensive analysis of the I...
Mark Munsterhjelm, "Forensic Colonialism: Genetics and the Capture of Indigenous Peoples" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
10 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Forensic genetic technologies are popularly conceptualized and revered as important tools of justice. The research and development of these technologi...
Humanitarian Issues of Immigration in Japan: From Historical Background to Current Policies
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Japan has historically maintained extended periods of isolationist policies and continues to uphold some of the strictest immigration laws in the worl...
Wendy S. Hesford, "Violent Exceptions: Children's Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Violent Exceptions: Children's Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics (Ohio State UP, 2021) turns to the humanitarian figure of the child-in-peril ...
Dolly Kikon and Joel Rodrigues, "Food Journeys: Stories from the Heart" (Zubaan Books, 2023)
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Food Journeys: Stories from the Heart (Zubaan Books, 2023) is a powerful collection that draws on personal experiences, and the meaning of grief, ra...
Kevin F. Adler and Donald W. Burnes, "When We Walk By: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America" (North Atlantic Books, 2023)
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Think about the last time that you saw or interacted with an unhoused person. What did you do? What did you say? Did you offer money or a smile, or di...
Fae Garland and Mitchell Travis, "Intersex Embodiment: Legal Frameworks Beyond Identity and Patienthood" (Bristol UP, 2022)
26 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is intersex and why does it matter? What is the power of law to disrupt dominant narratives? I had a fascinating conversation with authors Dr Fa...
Heather Smith-Cannoy et al., "Sex Trafficking and Human Rights: The Status of Women and State Responses" (Georgetown UP, 2022)
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Human trafficking for the sex trade is a form of modern-day slavery that ensnares thousands of victims each year, disproportionately affecting women a...
Malcolm D. Evans, "Tackling Torture: Prevention in Practice" (Bristol UP, 2023)
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How big a problem is torture? Are the right things being done to prevent it? Why does the UN appear at times to be so impotent in the face of it? Tac...
Jan Selling, "Romani Liberation: A Northern Perspective on Emancipatory Struggles and Progress" (Central European UP, 2022)
05 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Well-known for his work in Critical Romani Studies, Jan Selling talks with Lavinia Stan about his latest book. Centered on Scandinavia, Romani Liber...
Wendy H. Wong, "We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age" (MIT Press, 2023)
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our data-intensive world is here to stay, but does that come at the cost of our humanity in terms of autonomy, community, dignity, and equality? In W...
Cheryl Lawther and Luke Moffett, "Research Handbook on Transitional Justice" (Edward Elgar, 2023)
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this engaging interview with Cheryl Lawther, who talks about why the Research Handbook on Transitional Justice (Edward Elgar, 2023) is on...
Luke Moffett, "Reparations and War: Finding Balance in Repairing the Past" (Oxford UP, 2023)
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For thousands of years, reparations have been used to secure the end of war and to alleviate its deleterious consequences. While human rights law esta...
The Israeli Defense Force (IDF)'s Ethical Code
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the past week, the entire world has been focusing on the murderous attack by the Hamas organization against the State of Israel and Israel's respon...
From the Invention of the Passport to the Golden Passport
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey interviews Kristin Surak, professor at the London School of Economics, about her n...
Rory Finnin, "Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity (U Toronto Press, 2022) offers a cultural history of Crimea and the Black Se...
Stephanie Southworth and Sara Brallier, "Homelessness in the 21st Century: Living the Impossible American Dream" (Routledge, 2023)
08 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An accessible and engaging introductory text on homelessness and housing policy, this timely book uses a sociopolitical framework for understanding is...
Angie Lederach, "Feel the Grass Grow: Ecologies of Slow Peace in Colombia" (Stanford UP, 2023)
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What can collaborative research with Colombian campesino leaders teach us about building peace? In this episode, I talk with Angie Lederach, author of...
Kashmir Hill, "Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It" (Random House, 2023)
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
New York Times tech reporter Kashmir Hill was skeptical when she got a tip about a mysterious app called Clearview AI that claimed it could, with 99 p...
Damani Partridge, "Blackness As a Universal Claim: Holocaust Heritage, Noncitizen Futures, and Black Power in Berlin" (U California Press, 2022)
24 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this bold and provocative new book, Blackness as a Universal Claim: Holocaust Heritage, Noncitizen Futures, and Black Power in Berlin (University...
Debbie Sharnak, "Of Light and Struggle: Social Justice, Human Rights, and Accountability in Uruguay" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
15 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Debbie Sharnak's new book, Of Light and Struggle: Social Justice, Human Rights, and Accountability in Uruguay (University of Pennsylvania Press, 202...
Anthony B. Sanders, "Baby Ninth Amendments: How Americans Embraced Unenumerated Rights and Why It Matters" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Listing every right that a constitution should protect is hard. American constitution drafters often list a few famous rights such as freedom of speec...
A Better Way to Buy Books
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bookshop.org is an online book retailer that donates more than 80% of its profits to independent bookstores. Launched in 2020, Bookshop.org has alre...
Davide Rodogno, "Night on Earth: A History of International Humanitarianism in the Near East, 1918–1930" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
02 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Night on Earth: A History of International Humanitarianism in the Near East, 1918–1930 (Cambridge UP, 2021) is a broad-ranging account of internati...
Ari Ezra Waldman, "Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
02 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power (Cambridge UP, 2021), Ari Ezra Waldman exposes precisely how the tech in...
Corina Rodríguez Enríquez and Masaya Llavaneras Blanco, "Corporate Capture of Development: Public-Private Partnerships, Women’s Human Rights, and Global Resistance" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) have gained a renewed momentum in recent years, and have come to be viewed by governments and funders alike as a si...
Christopher Harrison, "Genocidal Conscription: Drafting Victims and Perpetrators Under the Guise of War" (Lexington Books, 2023)
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Christopher Harrison's book Genocidal Conscription: Drafting Victims and Perpetrators Under the Guise of War (Lexington Books, 2023) examines how s...
Martin Plaut and Sarah Vaughan, "Understanding Ethiopia's Tigray War" (Oxford UP, 2023)
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Martin Plaut and Sarah Vaughan about their new book Understanding Ethiopia's Tigray War (Oxford UP, 2023) The ongoing war and con...