He offers a wonderfully elegant and powerful organizing principle for the discipline, which he tricks out through the pages of the book. I was lucky enough to read the draft chapters as they emerged from Brisbane on an almost weekly basis: rather like a Victorian novel, and I confess I felt a bit bereft when they stopped arriving.
Chris Reus-Smit’s hot-off-the-press contribution is a supreme case in point. In addition to providing nifty guides to a great many subjects, the very best VSIs can also have something to say to the seasoned professional. Dominic Byatt – Oxford University Press Christian Reus-Smit – International Relations: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford etc.: Oxford University Press, 2020) I highly recommend this for anyone wanting to better understand the experiences of those making perilous journeys in the hope of a more secure life, when they have few other choices. This fictional account of a Mexican woman’s journey to the US, with her young son, via illicit migratory routes, is beautifully written and offers moving insights into the politics and violence of the drug cartels, and of the struggles of millions displaced by conflict and violence.
Jeanine Cummins, American Dirt(New York: Tinder Press, 2020). A provocative read for those interested in better understanding the challenges of holding states to account when human rights norms are breached. Mitchell demonstrates that, in fact, political leaders, including in established democratic states, tend to go to extraordinary lengths to evade accountability for collusion in human rights abuses, and that such mechanisms therefore tend to fail.
This book offers an important corrective to the human rights literature, which tends to assume that the presence of mechanisms for accountability are a strong indicator of states’ compliance with human rights norms. From Dresden to Abu Ghraib, How Leaders Evade Accountability for Abuse, Atrocity, and Killing(New York, London: New York University Press, 2012). Neil James Mitchell, Democracy’s Blameless Leaders. A must read for anyone interested in how we grapple with human rights abuses as researchers, and the important implications these choices can make for political and public understanding. This book offers important insights on the hidden politics and power behind the quantification of human rights abuses. Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Sex Trafficking(Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016). Ruth Blakeley – University of Sheffield Sally Engle Merry, The Seductions of Quantification.
Keep an eye out for the ones that have a discount! 1. Placing his attention squarely on real people and their real lives, he not only provides a glimpse of life today in a city that changes every time that I visit, but also a perspective on an ancient nation that has brought more of its citizens out of poverty and into the modern world faster than any of us would have thought possible.BISA Chair, Mark Webber, asked a selection of academics and publishers which books they would recommend for reading during the lockdown. Rob Schmitz has brought modern China to life by focusing on the small shopkeepers and other inhabitants of the street in Shanghai that he rides his bike up and down every day. Here’s what another reviewer on Amazon had to say: In the same literary fashion as Peter Hessler of Oracle Bones fame (they served in the Peace Corp together), Rob paints a beautiful and detailed picture of life on this one simple street in Shanghai, using this as a vehicle to explain many parts of Chinese culture. Ever since I met Rob Schmitz in person, I’ve been a huge fan.Īs the international correspondent for NPR, he’s been based in Shanghai for many years, and Street of Eternal Happiness is his description of small town life in a massive city.
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