International Law, Rights and Politics: Developments in Eastern Europe and the CIS (New International Relations) [Repost]

International Law, Rights and Politics: Developments in Eastern Europe and the CIS (New International Relations) by Rein Mullerson


English | June 22, 1994 | ISBN: 0415106877 | 248 Pages | PDF | 1.42 MB

Rein Mullerson was Deputy Foreign Minister of Estonia during the country"s independence struggles and is a distinguished professor of international relations. His book is concerned with the interplay of international law and politics in the changing international system. He analyses events in Eastern Europe and the former USSR to throw light on broad and controversial issues including non-use of force, non-interference in internal affairs, self-determination of peoples, minorities and nationalism in inter-ethnic conflicts and human rights in post-totalitarian societies. Controversial questions of continuity and succession of states and their recognition are also set in this context. One purpose of the book is to show how recent developments influence the international system as a whole and how international law has to change in order to respond to new challenges.

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The Politics of Women"s Rights in Iran

Arzoo Osanloo, "The Politics of Women"s Rights in Iran"


English | ISBN: 0691135460, 0691135479 | 2009 | 280 pages | PDF | 1 MB

In The Politics of Women"s Rights in Iran, Arzoo Osanloo explores how Iranian women understand their rights. After the 1979 revolution, Iranian leaders transformed the state into an Islamic republic. At that time, the country"s leaders used a renewed discourse of women"s rights to symbolize a shift away from the excesses of Western liberalism. Osanloo reveals that the postrevolutionary republic blended practices of a liberal republic with Islamic principles of equality. Her ethnographic study illustrates how women"s claims of rights emerge from a hybrid discourse that draws on both liberal individualism and Islamic ideals.






Osanloo takes the reader on a journey through numerous sites where rights are being produced–including Qur"anic reading groups, Tehran"s family court, and law offices–as she sheds light on the fluid and constructed nature of women"s perceptions of rights. In doing so, Osanloo unravels simplistic dichotomies between so-called liberal, universal rights and insular, local culture. The Politics of Women"s Rights in Iran casts light on a contemporary non-Western understanding of the meaning behind liberal rights, and raises questions about the misunderstood relationship between modernity and Islam.

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The Global Political Economy of Intellectual Property Rights: The New Enclosures? (RIPE Series in Global Political Economy)

The Global Political Economy of Intellectual Property Rights: The New Enclosures? (RIPE Series in Global Political Economy) by Christopher May


English | Aug. 9, 2000 | ISBN: 0415229049 | 216 Pages | PDF | 1003.85 KB

It has become a commonplace that there has been an information revolution, transforming both society and the economy. In 1995 the Trade Related Intellectual Property (TRIPs) agreement aimed to harmonise protection for property in knowledge throughout the global system. This book considers the contemporary disputes about the ownership of knowledge resources – as in the cases of genetically modified foods, the music industry or the internet – and the problematic nature of the TRIPs agreement. In this highly topical book, Christopher May reveals that, because of such problems, at present the balance in intellectual property rights between public good and private reward is more often than not weighted towards the latter.

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Closing the Rights Gap: From Human Rights to Social Transformation

Closing the Rights Gap: From Human Rights to Social Transformation by LaDawn Haglund and Robin Stryker


English | 2015 | ISBN: 0520283090 | 392 pages | PDF + EPUB | 6 + 12,5 MB

Do “human rights”—as embodied in constitutions, national laws, and international agreements—foster improvements in the lives of the poor or otherwise marginalized populations? When, where, how, and under what conditions? Closing the Rights Gap: From Human Rights to Social Transformation systematically compares a range of case studies from around the world in order to clarify the conditions under which—and institutions through which—economic, social, and cultural rights are progressively realized in practice. It concludes with testable hypotheses regarding how significant transformative change might occur, as well as an agenda for future research to facilitate rights realization worldwide.

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The European Court of Human Rights between Law and Politics

The European Court of Human Rights between Law and Politics by Jonas Christoffersen and Mikael Rask Madsen


English | 2011 | ISBN: 0199694494, 0199686440 | 256 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB

The European Court of Human Rights between Law and Politics provides a comprehensive analysis of the origins and development of one of the most striking supranational judicial institutions. The book brings together leading scholars and practitioners to cast new light on the substantial jurisprudence and ongoing political reform of the Court. The broad analysis based on historical, legal, and social science perspectives provides fresh insights into the institutional crisis of the Court and the future of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.




The European Court of Human Rights is in many ways an unparalleled success. The Court embarked, during the 1970s, upon the development of a progressive and genuinely European jurisprudence. In -Cold War era, it went from being the guarantor of human rights solely in Western Europe to becoming increasingly involved in the transition to democracy and the rule of law in Eastern Europe. Now the protector of the human rights of some 800 million Europeans from 47 different countries, the European system is once again deeply challenged – this time by a massive case load and by the Member States" increased reluctance towards the Court. This book paves the way for a better understanding of the system and hence a better basis for choosing the direction of the next stage of the Court"s life.

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The Path to the Greater, Freer, Truer World: Southern Civil Rights and Anticolonialism, 1937-1955

The Path to the Greater, Freer, Truer World: Southern Civil Rights and Anticolonialism, 1937-1955 by Lindsey R. Swindall


English | 2014 | ISBN: 081304992X | 256 pages | PDF | 1,4 MB

“A fresh and engaging study that illuminates the important, related, yet neglected histories of the Southern Negro Youth Congress and the Council on African Affairs. Especially noteworthy is the perceptive treatment of the linkages between these related organizations’ domestic and international politics.”—Waldo E. Martin, coauthor of Freedom on My Mind: A History of African Americans with Documents




“A welcome addition to the growing body of literature that examines the interplay between civil rights and international affairs.”—John Kirk, author of Redefining the Color Line: Black Activism in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1940-1970




“Swindall puts the ‘long civil rights’ movement on a dynamic new world map. Her meticulous use of archival materials opens up new roots and routes for scholars of American race history.”—Bill Mullen, author of Afro-Orientalism




The Southern Negro Youth Congress and the Council on African Affairs were two organizations created as part of the early civil rights efforts to address race and labor issues during the Great Depression. They fought within a leftist, Pan-African framework against disenfranchisement, segregation, labor exploitation, and colonialism.




By situating the development of the SNYC and the Council on African Affairs within the scope of the long civil rights movement, Lindsey Swindall reveals how these groups conceptualized the U.S. South as being central to their vision of a global African diaspora. Both organizations illustrate well the progressive collaborations that maintained an international awareness during World War II. Cleavages from anti-radical repression in the postwar years are also evident in the dismantling of these groups when they became casualties of the early Cold War.




By highlighting the cooperation that occurred between progressive activists from the Popular Front to the 1960s, Swindall adds to our understanding of the intergenerational nature of civil rights and anticolonial organizing.

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