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Publications

Journal Articles

The Transformation of the Arab World

Olivier Roy

Journal of Democracy, 2012 July 1, 2012

In this article, Oliver Roy argues that in order to grasp what is happening in the Middle East, a number of deep-rooted prejudices must be set aside. First among them is the assumption that democracy presupposes secularization; the democratization movement in the Arab world came precisely after thirty years of what has been called the “return of the sacred,” an obvious process of re-Islamization of everyday life, coupled with the rise of Islamist parties. The second is the idea that a democrat must also, by definition, be a liberal.

Governance Democracy Society Religion Journal Articles

Working Papers

Human Trafficking: Moral Panic, Culture and Collective Action

Helen Stacy

PHR Working Paper, 2012 June 30, 2012

There is consensus that even while human trafficking is increasingly the subject of international, national and local attention by treaty making bodies, legislatures and law enforcement agencies, the results of these formal mechanisms have been patchy at best and meager at worst. There is less consensus on how to tackle the push/pull dynamics of trafficking, and even less agreement on the best ways to intervene in the deep structural determinants of poverty, patriarchy, and poor or apathetic governance.

Governance Society Culture Working Papers

Books

Liberation Technology: Social Media and the Struggle for Democracy

Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012 June 26, 2012

This book originated in a conference on "Liberation Technology in Authoritarian Regimes" held at Stanford University in Oct. 2010.

The revolutions sweeping the Middle East provide dramatic evidence of the role that technology plays in mobilizing citizen protest and upending seemingly invulnerable authoritarian regimes. A grainy cell phone video of a Tunisian street vendor’s self-immolation helped spark the massive protests that toppled longtime ruler Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, and Egypt’s "Facebook revolution" forced the ruling regime out of power and into exile.

Governance Democracy Elections Human Rights International Development Science and Technology Books

Working Papers

The Gendered Dimensions of Sex Trafficking

Madeline Rees

PHR Working Paper, 2012 June 1, 2012

Gender Gender Society Working Papers

Working Papers

Combating the Trafficking of Women in Eastern Europe

Katherine R. Jolluck

PHR Working Paper, 2012 June 1, 2012

Working Papers

Working Papers

From Rhetoric to Rights: Global Response to Human Trafficking

Alison Brysk

PHR Working Paper, 2012 June 1, 2012

Working Papers

Working Papers

Weaving Theory and Practice: Anti-Trafficking Partnerships and the Fourth ‘P’ in the Human Trafficking Paradigm

Annie Fukushima, Cindy Liou

PHR Working Paper, 2012 June 1, 2012

Working Papers

Working Papers

Shaming, State Power, and Enforcement in the History of Anti-Trafficking Efforts: African Perspectives

Richard Roberts

PHR Working Paper, 2012 June 1, 2012

The central problem in human trafficking since the first global efforts to abolish the slave trade in the late eighteenth century is the persistence of demand for unfree women, children, and men. Women and children have increasingly composed the largest share of trafficked people. Women and children can be forced into a wide range of work—from sex work and domestic labor to farm work and low skilled manufacturing—where their labor and their bodies are exploited by their owners and their clients.

Society History Working Papers

Working Papers

International Cooperation and Coordination: The European Challenge to Combating and Preventing Human Trafficking

Helga Konrad, Nadejda Marques

PHR Working Paper, 2012 June 1, 2012

Some twelve years after the unveiling of the UN Anti-Trafficking Protocol in 2000, most European countries have sound anti-trafficking legislation. Worldwide, while many countries amend their legislation and policies, they follow practice developed, applied and tested in Western Europe. Some of these practices consider national and international coordination and cooperation for an effective anti-trafficking policy.

Corruption Governance Security Working Papers

Working Papers

Combating Human Trafficking: The South African Legal Context

Beatri Kruger

PHR Working Paper, 2012 June 1, 2012

South Africa’s international obligation to combat human trafficking in terms of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (Palermo Protocol) requires the promulgation of comprehensive counter-trafficking legislation. The present counter-trafficking legislative response is fragmented. Transitional anti-trafficking provisions are included in the Children’s Act, which criminalises all types of child trafficking, and in the Sexual Offences Amendment Act, which criminalises sex trafficking.

Working Papers

Working Papers

What is Good for the Goose is Good for the Gander: The Effects of Childcare Provision in Mexico

Gabriela Calderón

2012 June 1, 2012

Working Papers

Commentary

Stop Ignoring Taiwan

Karl Eikenberry

Foreign Policy, 2012 May 17, 2012

In an article for Foreign Policy, Karl Eikenberry makes the case for the United States to invigorate its relations with Taiwan and outlines the work needed to make this a reality and stabilize security in the Asia-Pacific region.

Governance Policy Analysis International Relations Foreign Policy Security Commentary

Policy Briefs

Voting for Change: The Pitfalls and Possibilities of First Elections in Arab Transitions

Ellen Lust

BDC-Stanford Project on Arab Transitions, 2012 May 1, 2012

The first elections after the fall of authoritarian regimes present an important opportunity for both local and international actors to strengthen transitional processes.

Governance Elections Policy Briefs

Journal Articles

The Russo-Georgian war and beyond: towards a European great power concert

Henrik Larsen

Routledge: European Security, 2012 March 1, 2012

Abstract

NATO Institutions and Organizations Migration and Citizenship Security Governance International Relations Foreign Policy Journal Articles

Policy Briefs

Drafting Egypt's New Constitution Policy Paper

Tamir Moustafa

BDC-Stanford Project on Arab Transitions, 2012 March 1, 2012

This is the first paper in the BDC-Stanford Project on Arab Transitions series, authored Dr. Tamir Moustafa of Simon Fraser University in Canada and entitled “Drafting Egypt’s New Constitution: Can a New Legal Framework Revive a Flawed Transition?”.

Governance Human Rights Institutions and Organizations International Development Economic Affairs Policy Briefs

Journal Articles

The Patterns of History

Francis Fukuyama

The Journal of Democracy, 2012 January 1, 2012

Democracy Governance History Society Journal Articles

Journal Articles

The Coming Wave

Larry Diamond

The Journal of Democracy, 2012 January 1, 2012

Democracy Governance Journal Articles

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