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Justice Cascade How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics

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ISBN-10: 0393079937

ISBN-13: 9780393079937

Edition: 2011

Authors: Kathryn Sikkink

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Grawemeyer Award winner Kathryn Sikkink offers a landmark argument for human rights prosecutions as a powerful political tool. She shows how, in just three decades, state leaders in Latin America, Europe, and Africa have lost their immunity from any accountability for their human rights violations, becoming the subjects of highly publicized trials resulting in severe consequences. This shift is affecting the behavior of political leaders worldwide and may change the face of global politics as we know it. Drawing on extensive research and illuminating personal experience, Sikkink reveals how the stunning emergence of human rights prosecutions has come about; what effect it has had on…    
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Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/26/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.95" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Kathryn Sikkink is McKnight Presidential Chair in Political Science and Regents Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota, and is an affiliated faculty member at the University of Minnesota Law School. Her other books include, as coeditor, Restructuring World Politics: Transnational Social Movements, Networks, and Norms .