In recent years, the judicialization of politics worldwide has expanded its scope to
encompass what we may term “mega-politics”—matters of outright and utmost political …

Democratizing states began in the 1980s to hold individuals, including past heads of state,
accountable for human rights violations. The 1984 Argentine truth commission report (Nunca …

Over the past three decades, hundreds of government officials have gone from being
immune to any accountability for their human rights violations to being the subjects of highly …

Revolutions, social movements, religious and ethnic conflict, nationalism and civil rights, and
transnational movements: these forms of contentious politics combine in Charles Tilly's and …

This article clarifies the origins of the field of transitional justice and its preliminary
conceptual boundaries. I argue that the field began to emerge in the late 1980s, as a …

Principles of International Criminal Law is one of the most influential textbooks in the field of
international criminal justice. This fourth edition builds on the highly-successful work of the …

Why do we compare nations? How do we compare nations? What are the'big issues' in
comparative politics? Issues and Methods in Comparative Politics provides students with the …

I fjor haust slapp Oxford University Press ut ei ny innføringsbok som tek for seg korleis verda
er organisert politisk i dag. Ei nett, lita bok på 354 sider (inkludert indeks og referansar), utan …

Abstract Courts Resisting Courts explores a critical tension in international law: the
relationship between international and national courts. Leading theorists assume that …

Over the last 25 years we have been able to witness how countries that maintained brutal
dictatorships and bred bloody genocides chose to set an end to oppression, violence or …