From the New York Times–bestselling author Stephen M. Walt, The Hell of Good Intentions
dissects the faults and foibles of recent American foreign policy—explaining why it has been …

Over the past three decades, hundreds of government officials have gone from being
immune to any accountability for their human rights violations to being the subjects of highly …

'The Power of Human Rights'(published in 1999) was an innovative and influential
contribution to the study of international human rights. At its center was a'spiral model'of …

International military interventions endanger soldier and civilian lives, can be financially
costly, and risk spiraling out of control. One incident which exemplified the risks involved a …

Temporary leaders in federal agencies—commonly known as “actings”—are a fixture of the
modern administrative state. These acting officials have recently come under fire, particularly …

The nature of the presidency in American constitutional governance cannot be understood
without reference to norms. 1 These unwritten or informal rules of political behavior provide …

The way in which mainstream human rights discourse speaks of such evils as the Holocaust,
slavery, or apartheid puts them solidly in the past. Its elaborate techniques of" transitional" …

In Humanity's Law, renowned legal scholar Ruti Teitel offers a powerful account of one of the
central transformations of the post-Cold War era: the profound normative shift in the …

The Dark Side is a dramatic, riveting, and definitive narrative account of how the United
States made self-destructive decisions in the pursuit of terrorists around the world …

Celebrating its fiftieth anniversary, Robert McCloskey's classic work on the Supreme Court's
role in constructing the US Constitution has introduced generations of students to the …