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The Impact of Alternative Constitutional Regimes on Religious Freedom in Canada and England
by Liviatan, Ofrit
This article examines whether the global trend of codifying rights in entrenched bills accompanied by judicial review to broaden rights protection is justified. By comparing the religious freedom...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: Winter 2009 More
Unpacking the State's Reputation
by Brewster, Rachel
International law scholars debate when international law matters to states, how it matters, and whether we can improve compliance. One of the few areas of agreement is that fairly robust levels...
Published Date: September 2009 More
A New Trichotomous Measure of World-system Position Using the International Trade Network
by Beckfield, Jason; Clark, Rob
Snyder and Kick’s (1979) measure of world-system position continues to serve as the premier trichotomous network indicator of a state’s location in the capitalist world economy. In this study, we...
Published Date: July 2009 More
Japan and the Axis, 1937-8: Recognition of the Franco Regime and Manchukuo
by Rodao, Florentino
After just one year of the Spanish Civil War, the Marco Polo Bridge Incident led to the Sino-Japanese War, both conflicts remaining for two years as daily reminders of the world conflicts of the...
Published Date: July 2009 More
The limits of reputation on compliance
by Brewster, Rachel
This short paper is a response to Andrew Guzman's book, How International Law Works. Guzman presents a novel synthesis of the IR approaches to IL by arguing that a state's concern with its reputation...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: July 2009 More
Conflict Nightmares and Trauma in Aceh
by Grayman, Jesse Hession; Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio; Good, Byron J.
In both the Acehnese and Indonesian languages, there is no single lexical term for “nightmare.” And yet findings from a large field research project in Aceh that examined post traumatic...
Published Date: June 2009 More
Epi+demos+cracy: Linking Political Systems and Priorities to the Magnitude of Health Inequities—Evidence, Gaps, and a Research A
by Beckfield, Jason; Krieger, Nancy
A new focus within both social epidemiology and political sociology investigates how political systems and priorities shape health inequities. To advance—and better integrate—research on...
Published Date: May 2009 More
The Past and Future of the Separation of Human Rights into Categories
by Marks, Stephen
It is a commonplace to recall that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) integrated civil and political rights (CPR) with economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCR), and that the two...
Published Date: April 2009 More
The Past and Future of the Separation of Human Rights into Categories
by Marks, Stephen
It is a commonplace to recall that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) integrated civil and political rights (CPR) with economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCR), and that the two...
Published Date: April 2009 More
Access to Essential Medicines as a Component of the Right to Health
by Marks, Stephen
In Human Rights Obligations of Non-State Actors, Andrew Clapham wrote, "Perhaps the most obvious threat to human rights has come from the inability of people to achieve access to expensive...
Published Date: April 2009 More