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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was founded in 1863 and is often considered the gold standard in humanitarian action. Despite its many positive achievements over more than 150 years, some former ICRC officials believe that the organization is now in decline because of a series of recent policy choices. Their view is that the organization has undermined its reputation for independent and neutral humanitarian action, while gr...

Decisions made by the ICRC are often crucial to humanitarian protection. This book analyses the challenges confronting the organization and the complex decisions it takes as it responds to human needs stemming from political violence. Have its recent policy choices affected its reputation for independent and neutral humanitarian action?"--

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Written by two formidable experts in the field, this book analyzes international humanitarian action as practiced by the ICRC, explaining its history and structure as well as examining contemporary field experience and broad diplomatic initiatives related to its principal tasks.

The fourth edition of David P. Forsythe's authoritative analysis of the place of human rights in international relations.

This major four-volume encyclopedia set offers comprehensive coverage of all aspects of human rights theory, practice, law, and history. The set will provide country profiles, and full coverage of the development of the movement, of historical cases of abuse, of the key figures, of major organizations past and present, and of a range of other issues in economics, government, religion, journalism, etc., that touch on human rights theory and pra...

A bold critique of US policies towards terror suspects after 9/11, which will interest all those who value human rights and humanitarian law.

A bold critique of US policies towards terror suspects after 9/11, which will interest all those who value human rights and humanitarian law.

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This book takes on the myths surrounding US foreign policy and the future of world order. Weighing impulses toward parochial nationalism against the ideal of cosmopolitan internationalism, the authors posit that what may be emerging is a new brand of American foreign policy that gives primacy to national self-interest but with considerable interest in universal human rights. Exceptions like Libya and Syria provide case studies for critical ana...

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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) coordinates the world's largest private relief system for conflict situations. Its staff operates throughout the world, and in recent years the ICRC has mounted large operations in the Balkans and Somalia. Yet despite its very important role its internal workings are mysterious and often secretive. This book examines the ICRC from its origins in the mid-nineteenth century up to the present da...

Human Rights in the New Europe is one of the first books to bring together leading thinkers from both East and west in order to examine the situation of human rights in Europe, especially east-central Europe, after the fall of communism. The book focuses broadly on the promotion and protection of human rights practices in specific nations. David P. Forsythe's introductory pages set the stage for up-to-date information on the new situation in e...

Analyzes and discusses the dimensions of cover and overt human rights violations and how they militate against the establishment of democracies in the Third World. This book evaluates critically the argument that human rights in general and democracy in particular contribute to peaceful international relations.