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"Political Logic of Poverty Relief" Electoral Strategies and Social Policy in Mexico
October 2016
Poverty relief programs are shaped by politics.
The Aborigine Constituencies in the Taiwanese Legislature
November 2015
The Republic of China on Taiwan has long reserved legislative seats for its indigenous minority, the yuanzhumin.
Whither Russia? Autocracy Is Here for Now, but Is It Here to Stay?
December 2012
Judging from some of the titles of recent books on Russia—for example, Richard Sakwa's The Crisis of Russian Democracy, Gulnaz Sharafutdinova's Political Consequences of Crony Capitalism inside...
Liberation Technology: Social Media and the Struggle for Democracy
June 2012
This book originated in a conference on "Liberation Technology in Authoritarian Regimes" held at Stanford University in Oct.
History Textbooks and the Wars in Asia: Divided Memories
December 2011
Over the past fifteen years Northeast Asia has witnessed growing intraregional exchanges and interactions, especially in the realms of culture and economy.
The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Law
December 2011
From Oxford University Press: There is a broad consensus among scholars that the idea of human rights was a product of the Enlightenment but that a self-conscious and broad-based human rights...
Human Rights for the 21st Century: Sovereignty, Civil Society, Culture
December 2009
A new moral, ethical, and legal framework is needed for international human rights law.
Democratic Governance and the Performance of Democracy
November 2009
The battle for accountability and good governance-and thus sustainable democracy and development-will not be won by foreign actors or pressures.
Domestic and International Influences on the Collapse of the Soviet Union (1991) and Russia's Initial Transition to Democracy (1993)
March 2009
Before the democracy promotion efforts of Iraq or Afghanistan in the early 21st century, there was the Soviet Union in the late 20th century.
Azerbaijan's 2005 Parliamentary Elections: A Failed Attempt at Transition
September 2008
The 2005 elections in Azerbaijan qualify as a failed transition from authoritarianism to democracy.
From Silkworms to Bungled Bailout: International Influences on the 1998 Regime Change in Indonesia
July 2008
In this paper, we argue that although international influences played a significant role in Indonesia’s democratic transition, Soeharto’s demise was not the consequence of diplomatic pressure or...
If At First You Don't Succeed: The Puzzle of South Korea's Democratic Transition
July 2008
In October 1979, the conditions were ripe for a transition to democracy in South Korea, also known as the Republic of Korea (ROK).
International Law, Fifth Edition
July 2007
Thoroughly updated to keep pace with the many new developments in international law, the Fifth Edition of this popular casebook covers the core topics, basic doctrines, and a broad range of foreign...
Political Liberalism Abroad
January 2007
This paper was discussed at the Global Justice workshop on January 19, 2007.Excerpt from pages 2 through 3 of Michael Blake's "Political Liberalism Abroad": Whereas Rawls himself emphasizes...
Universal Duty and Global Justice
December 2006
This paper was discussed at the Global Justice workshop on December 15, 2006.Excerpt from page four of Sebastiano Maffettone's "Universal Duty and Global Justice":We could uphold that, as a rule,...
A Win-Win U.S. Strategy for Dealing with Iran
December 2006
In an article written for the current issue of the Washington Quarterly by Larry Diamond, Michael McFaull and Abbas Milani, suggests that the U.S.
Beyond Corporate Codes of Conduct: Work Organization and Labor Standards in Two Mexican Garment Factories
August 2006
This paper was discussed at the Global Justice workshop on October 20, 2006.Abstract of Richard Locke's "Beyond Corporate Codes of Conduct: Work Organization and Labor Standards in Two Mexican...
Applying the Odious Debts Doctrine while Preserving Legitimate Lending
June 2006
This paper was discussed at the Global Justice workshop on November 3, 2006.
Is there a Human Right to Democracy?
June 2006
Is there a human right to democracy? My answer, in brief, is ‘no’. Five interconnected claims will play a role in my argument for this conclusion: Justice requires democracy.
Defining and Founding Civil Liberty
May 2006
In order to facilitate a subsequent operationalization of civil liberty, the paper attempts to define and ground civil liberty on the basis of liberal political philosophy/theory as this tradition...
From Citizen to Person? Rethinking Education as Incorporation
April 2006
Comparative educational research has influenced the development of the world society perspective as surely as the world society perspective has shaped research directions in comparative education....
Slide Rules: What Civil War Looks Like
March 2006
The article reports that by definition Iraq is in the midst of a civil war and has been ever since the first year of the "post-war" era in 2003.
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Ertharin Cousin Payne Distinguished Lecturer at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Distinguished Fellow at the Center on Food Security and the Environment, Distinguished Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law 