Aid Imperium: United States Foreign Policy and Human Rights in Post-Cold War Southeast Asia

Aid Imperium: United States Foreign Policy and Human Rights in Post-Cold War Southeast Asia

Salvador Santino F. REGILME Jr.

Does foreign aid promote human rights? As the world’s largest aid donor, the United States has provided foreign assistance to more than 200 countries. Deploying global numerical data on US foreign aid and comparative historical analysis of America’s post–Cold War…

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9/11 and the Rise of Global Anti-Terrorism Law: How the UN Security Council Rules the World

9/11 and the Rise of Global Anti-Terrorism Law: How the UN Security Council Rules the World

Edited by Arianna VEDASCHI and Kim Lane SCHEPPELE

Twenty years after the outbreak of the threat posed by international jihadist terrorism, which triggered the need for democracies to balance fundamental rights and security needs, 9/11 and the Rise of Global Anti-Terrorism Law offers an overview of counter-terrorism and…

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Illiberal Constitutionalism in Poland and Hungary: The Deterioration of Democracy, Misuse of Human Rights and Abuse of the Rule of Law

Illiberal Constitutionalism in Poland and Hungary: The Deterioration of Democracy, Misuse of Human Rights and Abuse of the Rule of Law

Tímea DRINÓCZI & Agnieszka BIEŃ-KACAŁA

This book theorizes illiberal constitutionalism by interrogation of the Rule of Law, democratic deterioration, and the misuse of the language and relativization of human rights protection, and its widespread emotional and value-oriented effect on the population…

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The Veil of Participation: Citizens and Political Parties in Constitution-Making Processes

The Veil of Participation: Citizens and Political Parties in Constitution-Making Processes

Alexander HUDSON

Public participation is a vital part of constitution-making processes around the world, but we know very little about the extent to which participation affects constitutional texts. In this book, Alexander Hudson offers a systematic measurement of the impact of public participation in three much-cited cases…

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Executive Decision-Making and the Courts: Revisiting the Origins of Modern Judicial Review

Executive Decision-Making and the Courts: Revisiting the Origins of Modern Judicial Review

Edited by TT ARVIND, Richard KIRKHAM, Daithí Mac SÍTHIGH and Lindsay STIRTON

In this book, leading experts from across the common law world assess the impact of four seminal House of Lords judgments decided in the 1960s: Ridge v Baldwin, Padfeld v Minister of Agriculture, Conway v Rimmer, and Anisminic v Foreign Compensation Commission…

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Rule of Law, Common Values, and Illiberal Constitutionalism: Poland and Hungary within the European Union

Rule of Law, Common Values, and Illiberal Constitutionalism: Poland and Hungary within the European Union

Edited by Tímea DRINÓCZI and Agnieszka BIEŃ-KACAŁA

This book challenges the idea that the Rule of Law is still a universal European value given its relatively rapid deterioration in Hungary and Poland, and the apparent inability of the European institutions to adequately address the illiberalization of these Member States.

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