The justice cascade refers to a new global trend of holding political leaders criminally
accountable for past human rights violations through domestic and international …

The first edition of Research Methods in International Relations was published in 2015, at a
time when there were few introductory International Relations (IR) textbooks that introduced …

Transitional justice encompasses a variety of measures devised to overcome legacies of
gross human rights violations and other historical injustices. The spread of international …

'The Power of Human Rights'(published in 1999) was an innovative and influential
contribution to the study of international human rights. At its center was a'spiral model'of …

Nongovernmental organizations are central to contemporary global governance, and their
numbers and influence have grown dramatically since the middle of the twentieth century …

There is a new empirical turn in international legal scholarship. Building on decades of
theoretical work in law and social science, a new generation of empirical studies is …

Whether and how violence can be controlled to spare innocent lives is a central issue in
international relations. The most ambitious effort to date has been the International Criminal …

Since the 1980s a number of countries have established truth commissions to come to terms
with the legacy of past human rights violations, yet little is known about the achievements …

What explains the success of criminal prosecutions against former Latin American officials
accused of human rights violations? Why did some judiciaries evolve from unresponsive …

Although nearly every country in the world today holds multiparty elections, these contests
are often blatantly unfair. For governments, electoral misconduct is a tempting but also a …