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  • In Search of A Better World

    A Human Rights Odyssey

    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    A work of memoir, history, and a call to action, the CBC Massey Lectures by internationally renowned UN prosecutor and scholar Payam Akhavan is a powerful and essential work on the major human rights struggles of our times.Renowned UN prosecutor and human rights scholar Payam Akhavan has encountered the grim realities of contemporary genocide throughout his life and career. He argues that ... Read more

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  • Civil Society and Democracy in Iran

    Series series Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory
    In this timely, informative edited volume, major Iranian scholars and civic actors address some of the most pressing questions about Iranian civil society and the process of democratization in Iran. They describe the role of Iranian civil society in the process of transition to democracy in Iran and offer insight about the enduring legacy of previous social and political movements—starting with ... Read more

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  • Yugoslavia, the Former and Future

    Reflections by Scholars from the Region

    Edited by Payam Akhavan, Robert Howse ...
    This book contains a unique collection of essays written by scholars from the former Yugoslavia, exploring the events that led to the devastating disintegration of their homeland. The scholars, who are from the different ethnic groups now in conflict, provide insightful, multicultural perspectives on the crisis.The essays lead readers to reconsider the assumptions behind the predominant western ... Read more

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  • Confronting Genocide

    Edited by René Provost, Payam Akhavan ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    “Never again” stands as one the central pledges of the international community following the end of the Second World War, upon full realization of the massive scale of the Nazi extermination programme. Genocide stands as an intolerable assault on a sense of common humanity embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other fundamental international instruments, including the ... Read more

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  • Reducing Genocide to Law

    Definition, Meaning, and the Ultimate Crime

    by Payam Akhavan ...
    Series Book 87 - Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
    Could the prevailing view that genocide is the ultimate crime be wrong? Is it possible that it is actually on an equal footing with war crimes and crimes against humanity? Is the power of the word genocide derived from something other than jurisprudence? And why should a hierarchical abstraction assume such importance in conferring meaning on suffering and injustice? Could reducing a reality that ... Read more

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    Conflict, Migration, and Geopolitics in the Twenty-First Century

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    In the 2016 CBC Massey Lectures, former Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General and international relations specialist Jennifer Welsh delivers a timely, intelligent, and fascinating analysis of twenty-first-century geopolitics.In 1989, as the Berlin Wall crumbled and the Cold War dissipated, the American political commentator Francis Fukuyama wrote a famous essay, entitled “The End of History, ... Read more

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    America and Europe in the New World Order

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