Research

Research

Alison Brysk

abrysk@uci.edu

Political Science Department

3151 Social Science Plaza

University of California, Irvine

Irvine, CA  92697-5100




National Insecurity and Human Rights:  Democracies Debate Counter-terrorism, with Gershon Shafir, University of California Press, 2007, Co-editor.







Human Rights and Private Wrongs:  Constructing Global Civil Society, Routledge Press (Human Rights Horizons series), 2005.








People Out of Place:  Globalization and the Citizenship Gap, with Gershon Shafir, Routledge Press, 2004, Co-editor.




 

“Democratic Reform and Injustice in Latin America,” Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy, Winter/Spring 2008.


“Making Values Make Sense: The Social Construction of Human Rights Foreign Policy,” Journal for Human Rights [Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte], Volume 2, 2007.


“Globalización y Pueblos Indígenas: El rol de la sociedad civil internacional en el Siglo XXI,” en Salvador Martì y Puig (editor) Pueblos Indígenas y Polìtica en Amèrica Latina, Barcelona: CIDOB, 2007.


Co-author.  “The Globalization of Rights:  From Citizenship to Human Rights,” with Gershon Shafir, Citizenship Studies,  Special Issue on Human Rights and Citizenship Rights, Volume 10, Issue 3,  2006.


“Global Good Samaritans?: Costa Rica’s Human Rights Foreign Policy,” Global Governance, vol. 11, no. 3, Summer 2005.


“Regional Identities, Regional Institutions, and Human Rights,” Global Law Review, Institute of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 2005.


“Two Cheers For Global Civil Society,” [book review essay], Social Movement Studies , Vol. 4, No. 1, 95-103, May 2005.


“Children Across Borders: Patriarchy, Property, or Persons?” in People Out of Place, ed. Alison Brysk and Gershon Shafir, Routledge Press, 2004.


“From Civil Society to Collective Action:  The Politics of Religion in Ecuador,” in Indigenous Peoples and Religion in Latin America, ed. Edward Cleary and Tim Steigenga, Rutgers University Press, 2004.


“Recovering From State Terror:  The Morning After in Latin America,” [Review essay], Latin American Research Review, Vol.38, No.1, March 2003.


Co-author. “After Empire: European Identities and Post-Colonial Families of Nations,” with Craig Parsons and Wayne Sandholtz, European Journal of International Relations, Vol.8, No.2, June 2002.


"Indian Market: The Ethnic Face of Adjustment in Ecuador," in Development Assistance and Ethnic Conflict, eds. Milton Esman and Ronald Herring, MIT Press, 2001.


“Democratizing Civil Society in Latin America,” Journal of Democracy, Vol. 11, No.3, July 2000, 151-165.


“Globalization: The Double-Edged Sword,” Report on the Americas, Vol.XXXIV, No.1, July-August 2000, 29-33.


Co-author. "Liberalization and Ethnic Conflict in Latin America," with Carol Wise, Studies in Comparative International Development, Fall 1997, 76-104.


"Turning Weakness Into Strength:  The Internationalization of Indian Rights," Latin American Perspectives, Vol.23, No.2, Spring 1996, 38-57.


"Hearts and Minds: Bringing Symbolic Politics Back In," Polity, Vol.XXVII, No. 4, Summer 1995, 559-585.


"Acting Globally: Indian Rights and International Politics," in  Indigenous Peoples and Democracy in Latin America, ed. Donna Lee Van Cott, Washington, D.C.: St. Martin's Press and Inter-American Dialogue, 1994.


"The Politics of Measurement: Counting the Disappeared in Argentina," Human Rights Quarterly, Vol.16, No.4, Nov.1994, 676-692.


"From Above and Below: Social Movements, The International System and Human Rights in Argentina," Comparative Political Studies, Vol.26, No.3, October 1993, 259-285.

Books

Publications




Globalization and Human Rights, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002, Editor.









From Tribal Village to Global Village:  Indian Rights and International Relations in Latin America, Stanford, CA:  Stanford University Press, 2000.








The Politics of Human Rights in Argentina: Protest, Change, and Democratization, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1994.


 

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