Background Public health scholarship has uncovered a wide range of strategies used by
industry actors to promote their products and influence government regulation. Less is …

Nongovernmental organizations are central to contemporary global governance, and their
numbers and influence have grown dramatically since the middle of the twentieth century …

International human rights institutions often rely on “naming and shaming” to promote
compliance with global norms. Critics charge that such institutions are too politicized; states …

Democracy and women's rights are integrally “bundled” by the international community. This
means that dictatorships can signal adherence to international norms by demonstrating …

Do international organizations affect government killing? Extant work has studied
international organizations' effects on a set of human rights, but has not examined the …

International actors at times seek to help bring peace, democracy, and human rights. Studies
of how international actors help enforce political bargains between incumbent governments …

With the surge in economic growth in the global-north vis-a-vis social and economic
inequalities in the global-south (north-south dichotomy), there is an increasing requirement …

The relationship between political violence and greenfield foreign direct investment is
contingent on the type of violence, the characteristics of the investment-receiving sector, and …

When do international non-governmental organizations like Oxfam or Human Rights Watch
actually work? Help or Harm: The Human Security Effects of International NGOs answers …

Conventional wisdom treats politicization in the international human rights regime as
invariant: for any given violation, states condemn adversaries while coddling friends …