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Review Of Obama Power By Jeffrey C. Alexander And Bernadette N. Jaworsky (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2014)., Kubilay Y. Arin May 2015

Review Of Obama Power By Jeffrey C. Alexander And Bernadette N. Jaworsky (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2014)., Kubilay Y. Arin

Societies Without Borders

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Review Of Jennifer Curtis, Human Rights As War By Other Means (Philadelphia: University Of Pennsylvania Press 2014), Kubilay Y. Arin Mr May 2015

Review Of Jennifer Curtis, Human Rights As War By Other Means (Philadelphia: University Of Pennsylvania Press 2014), Kubilay Y. Arin Mr

Societies Without Borders

Jennifer Curtis, author of Human Rights as War by Other Means, traces the use of rights discourse in Northern Ireland's politics from the local civil rights campaigns of the 1960s to present-day activism for truth recovery and LGBT equality. While reading this remarkable study, I asked myself to what extent her criticism of human “rights discourse has functioned as a war by other means” in Northern Ireland.