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Courting Democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina
This study shows the impact of the ICTY on Bosnian society and its role in translating international law in domestic contexts.
Srebrenica in the Aftermath of Genocide
This book traces the reverberations of genocide, forced displacement, and a legacy of loss in Bosnia and abroad.
Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts
At least 200,000-250,000 people died in the war in Bosnia. "There are three million child soldiers in Africa." "More than 650,000 civilians have been killed as a result of the U.S. occupation of Iraq." "Between 600,000 and 800,000 women are trafficked across borders every year." "Money laundering represents as much as 10 percent of global GDP." "Internet child porn is a $20 billion-a-year industry." These are big, attention-grabbing numbers, frequently used in policy debates and media reporting. Peter Andreas and Kelly M. Greenhill see only one problem: these numbers are probably false. Their continued use and abuse reflect a much larger and troubling pattern: policymakers and the media naiv...
Clean Air at What Cost?
Why would political leaders shutter entire industries, decimate local economies, and destroy jobs just to clean up the air?
The Practice and Problems of Transnational Counter-Terrorism
The attacks of 9/11 kickstarted the development of a pervasive and durable transnational counter-terrorism order. This has evolved into a vast institutional architecture with direct effects on domestic law around the world and a number of impacts on everyday life that are often poorly understood. States found, fund and lead institutions inside and outside the United Nations that develop and consolidate transnational counter-terrorism through hard and soft law, strategies, capacity building and counter-terrorism 'products'. These institutions and laws underpin the expansion of counter-terrorism, so that new fields of activity get drawn into it, and others are securitised through their reframing as counter-terrorism and 'preventing and countering extremism'. Drawing on insights from law, international relations, political science and security studies, this book demonstrates the international, regional, national and personal impacts of this institutional and legal order. Fiona de Londras demonstrates that it is expansionary, rights-limiting and unaccountable.
China and Islam
This book is the first ethnographic study of Muslim minorities' practice of Islamic law in contemporary China.
Constitutional Populism
Explores a range of anti-constitutionalist populist regimes, identifying and analysing their causes, characteristics and consequences.
Undue Process
Why do autocrats hold political trials when outcomes are presumed known from the start? Undue Process examines how autocrats weaponize the judiciary to stay in control. Contrary to conventional wisdom that courts constrain arbitrary power, Shen-Bayh argues that judicial processes can instead be used to legitimize dictatorship and dissuade dissent when power is contested. Focusing on sub-Saharan Africa since independence, Shen-Bayh draws on fine-grained archival data on regime threats and state repression to explain why political trials are often political purges in disguise, providing legal cover for the persecution of regime rivals. This compelling analysis reveals how courts can be used to repress political challengers, institutionalize punishment, and undermine the rule of law. Engaging and illuminating, Undue Process provides new theoretical insights into autocratic judiciaries and will interest political scientists and scholars studying authoritarian regimes, African politics, and political control.
Practices of Reparations in International Criminal Justice
Explores how reparations in international criminal justice have been constituted and contested in various social contexts.
Opposing the Rule of Law
A striking new analysis of Myanmar's court system, revealing how the rule of law is 'lexically present but semantically absent'.
