Thomas Risse & Stephen C. Ropp 
Persistent Power of Human Rights [PDF ebook] 
From Commitment to Compliance

Analyses the likely future of the EU following next year”s Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) which is likely to be even more significant for the future of Europe than the Maastricht Treaty. Since M …

The European Community has committed itself to promoting ”economic and social cohesion” across its regions. Its expenditure – via the ”structural funds” – for these purposes is set to double by 1 …

This book concerns recent and current political developments in Latin America related to the emergence of left-leaning regimes riding the waves of anti-neoliberalism and a primary commodities boom. B …

The privatization of defence assets and the outsourcing of military services from the armed forces to the private sector is an increasing trend. This book approaches the issue of military privatizati …

Militarized conflicts between states appear to occur repeatedly in the same geographic regions. Both World Wars and a series of interstate disputes in the post-Cold War system had their origins in th …

Since 1989 the concept of ”civil war” has taken on new salience in international relations. Significant inquiries into inter-ethnic violence emphasising studies of political community, identity, so …

Challenging the conventional view that globalization embodies a new and inexorable process, this book analyzes the political foundations and choices involved in contemporary arrangements in the world …

First Published in 1991.During its last decades, the Kingdom of Laos was inhabited by a gentle people with a few astonishingly able leaders. When the Vietnamese war monopolized American headlines, th …

First Published in 1986. The papers in this volume were originally delivered at a series of seminars held at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, between January an …

One characteristic of Central and Eastern European democracies in transition is the lack of stability in terms of accountability and transparency in practices of political party financing. This key v …