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Anand Bertrand Commissiong

The History Of Human Rights: From Ancient Times To The Globalization Era (berkeley: University Of California Press, 2004), By Micheline Ishay

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Judging by the queries about the book from usually indifferent New York City Subway riders, The History of Human Rights certainly has an interested audience outside the academy. To be sure, considering the “slaughter bench of history,” and the twentieth century’s innovations of mass murder, the development and institutionalization of human rights the book charts…

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David Held, Global Covenant: The Social Democratic Alternative To The Washington Consensus. 

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Reviewed by Anand Bertrand Commissiong In the wake of the 2001 attacks on the United States and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the world faces two deadlocked forces. The spreading menace of worldwide terror networks represents one side of this dilemma. On the other is the mindset behind the response of the most powerful…

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