The fall of dictatorial regimes and the eruption of destructive civil conflicts around the world
have led to calls for holding individuals accountable for human rights atrocities. This book …

Can a constitutional amendment be unconstitutional? Prima facie, this seems like a paradox.
This vexing issue has attracted increased attention in recent years. Whereas the definition of …

Neoliberal economics have emerged in the post-Cold War era as the predominant
ideological tenet applied to the development of countries in the global south. For much of the …

Asked to provide advice to a Central or Eastern European nation drafting its first post-
socialist constitution, a prominent American legal academic promptly produces an elaborate …

In 1970 few American comparative political scientists were preoccupied by democracy and
democratization. Issues of development and dependency, political order and revolution …

For more than half a century, the world community has sought to codify a series of
fundamental precepts intended to prevent such abuses of human rights as torture …

This article examines the quality of democracy in Cambodia, arguing that Cambodian
democracy since its inception in 1993 has evolved from unstructured competitive …

The Dayton Peace Agreement (DPA) was signed as a means to bring to an end the war in
Bosnia-Herzegovina. 1 In the Western guarantor states the agreement was widely heralded …

Nationalism in Southeast Asia seeks a definition of nationalism through examining its role in
the history of southeast Asia, a region rarely included in general books on the topic. By …

Genocide, State Crime and the Law critically explores the use and role of law in the
perpetration, redress and prevention of mass harm by the state. In this broad ranging book …