The Rise and Fall of Human Rights provides a groundbreaking ethnographic investigation of the Palestinian human rights world--its NGOs, activists, and "victims," as well as their politics, training, and discourse--since 1979. Though human rights activity began as a means of stru…
The Rise and Fall of Human Rights provides a groundbreaking ethnographic investigation of the Palestinian human rights world-its NGOs, activists, and ""victims,"" as well as their politics, training, and discourse-since 1979. Though human rights activity began as a means of stru…
"How did the proposal to partition Palestine into an Arab and a Jewish state -- a solution endorsed by international consensus in 1947-49 -- become an obscure and even unthinkable option by the mid-1960s? Joel Beinin answers this question by examining the Palestinian/Arab-Israel…
First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
"Nishikawa explores how international norms have been adopted in the local context in Myanmar to project a certain international image while in fact the authorities are exploiting these norms to protect their own interests. In the liberal international world order promoted since…