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Publications List
July 18, 2013
Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Ph.D., FRSC.
Canada Research Chair in International Human Rights
Wilfrid Laurier University
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3C5
Tel (519) 884-0710 ext. 2780, fax (519) 884-8854, email hassmann@wlu.ca
N.B. Please note that until 1999 I published as Rhoda E. Howard.
* indicates publication is in a refereed journal or volume, or is or will be submitted for review.
All unpublished articles available from author at hassmann@wlu.ca
BOOKS
In progress
State Food Crimes, proposal under review, projected date of completion Dec. 31, 2013
2013: Co-editor (with Margaret Walton-Roberts), Slippery Citizenship, under review
Published
*2010.
Can Globalization Promote Human Rights? University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State
University Press.
*2008. Reparations to Africa. (with Anthony P. Lombardo) Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press.
*2008. Co-Editor (with Mark Gibney, Jean-Marc Coicaud and Niklaus Steiner) The Age of
Apology: Facing Up to the Past (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press)
*2006. Co-Editor (with Claude E. Welch, Jr.) Economic Rights in Canada and the United States
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press). (Named a notable book for 2008 by the United
States Human Rights network, a coalition of 200 non-governmental organizations)
*2003. Compassionate Canadians: Civic Leaders Discuss Human Rights (Toronto: University
of Toronto Press), pp. xi, 322. (Named 2004 Outstanding Book on Human Rights by the human
rights section, American Political Science Association).
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*1995. Human Rights and the Search for Community, (Boulder: Westview) pp. 255.
1987. Co-editor, with Jack Donnelly, International Handbook of Human Rights (Greenwood
Press: New York), pp. 495.
*1986. Human Rights in Commonwealth Africa (Rowman and Littlefield: Totowa, N.J.), pp.
xiii, 250. Runner-up, Joel Gregory Prize for best book in African Studies, Canadian Association
of African Studies, 1988)
1978. Colonialism and Underdevelopment in Ghana (Croom Helm, London; and Holmes and
Meier Africana Series, New York), pp. 244.
Articles and Papers
a) Unpublished and Forthcoming
2014. “Social Change and Human Rights,” forthcoming in Anya Mihr and Mark Gibney, eds.,
The SAGE Handbook of Human Rights, Sage.
2013/14, “State Enslavement in North Korea” Forthcoming in Contemporary Slavery and
Human Rights (Eds. Annie Bunting and Joel Quirk), UBC Press, under contract, chapter 10.
Available on-line at Genocide Watch,
http://genocidewatch.org/images/N.Korea_12_2_22_state_enslavement.pdf.
b) Published
*2013. “Reconsidering the Right to Own Property, “ Journal of Human Rights, vol. 12, pp. 18097.
2013. “Historical Amnesia, Genocide, and the Rejection of Universal Human Rights,” in Mark
Goodale, ed. Human Right at the Crossroads, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 172-82.
*2012. “State-Induced Famine and Penal Starvation in North Korea,” Genocide Studies and
Prevention, vol.7, no. 2/3, pp. 147-65.
2012. “The Sceptical Forsythe: Peace, Human Rights, and Realpolitik,” Journal of Human
Rights, vol. 11, no. 3, 356-9.
*2012. “Official Apologies,” Transitional Justice Review, vol. 1, no.1, pp. 31-53.
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*2012. “Human Security: Undermining Human Rights?” Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 1,
pp. 88-112.
*2011. “Universal Women’s Rights since 1970: The Centrality of Autonomy and Agency,”
Journal of Human Rights, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 433-39.
*2011. “Accentuating the Negative: Reply to Arat and Hertel,” Journal of Human Rights, vol.
10, no. 4, 467-76.
*2011. “Faminogenesis: State Policies that Undermine the Right to Food (A Lecture in memory
of Peter Baehr,” Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 560-77.
*2011. “The Yellow Sweatshirt: Human Dignity and Economic Human Rights in Advanced
Industrial Democracies,” in Shareen Hertel and Kathryn Libal, eds. Human Rights in the USA:
Beyond Exceptionalism, New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 25-45..
*2010. “Mugabe’s Zimbabwe 2000-2009. Massive Human Rights Violations and the Failure to
Protect,” accepted for publication, Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 898-920.
2010. “Reparations to Africa for the Slave Trade: a Qualified ‘No’”, World Geography:
Understanding a Changing World: ABC-CLIO. http://worldgeography2.abc-clio.com
2010. “Zimbabwe: Genocide or Crimes against Humanity,” The ISG Newsletter, no. 44, spring,
pp. 4-6.
*2009. “Zimbabwe,” in David P. Forsythe, ed. Encyclopedia of Human Rights, Vol. 5, New
York: Oxford University Press, pp. 399-406.
*2009. “Globalization,” in David P. Forsythe, ed. Encyclopedia of Human Rights, Vol. 2, New
York: Oxford University Press, pp. 321-330.
*2009. "An Airborne Disease: Globalization through African Eyes," in Steven Bernstein and
William Coleman, eds. Unsettled Legitimacy: Political Community, Power and Authority in a
Global Era, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, pp. 241-58.
2009. “Universal Human Rights: How Public Sociology Can Help Shape This Universal Value,”
in Vincent Jeffries, ed. Handbook of Public Sociology, Lanham, Md; Rowman and Littlefield;
pp. 357-73.
2009. “Reply to Paul O’Connell,” Human Rights Law Review, vol. 9, no. 1, 127-33.
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* 2007. “Reparations for the Slave Trade: Rhetoric, Law, History and Political Realities. “
Canadian Journal of African Studies. Vol. 41, no 3, pp. 427-54.
*2007. ”Germany, Afterwards,” (review article), Human Rights and Human Welfare (online
journal). http://www.du.edu/gsis/hrhw/volumes/2008/howard-hassmann-2008.pdf.
*2007. (with Mark Gibney, junior author), "Introduction: Why Do (Some) Westerners Want to
Apologize?", in The Age of Apology: Facing Up to the Past, Mark Gibney, Rhoda E. HowardHassmann, Jean-Mark Coicaud and Niklaus Steiner, eds. (Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press), pp. 1-9.
*2007. (with Anthony P. Lombardo, co-author). "Words Require Action: African Elite Opinion
about Apologies from the West," in The Age of Apology: Facing Up to the Past, Mark Gibney,
Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Jean-Mark Coicaud and Niklaus Steiner, eds. (Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press), pp. 216-28.
*2007. "Human Rights" in John Middleton, Editor in Chief, and Joseph C. Miller, eds. New
Encyclopedia of Africa, Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, Vol. 2, pp. 624-29.
2007. “Human Security and Multiculturalism in Canada,” in Ineke Boerefijn and Jenny
Goldschmidt, editors, Human Rights in the Polder, (Antwerp-Oxford: Intersentia.)
*2007. (with Susan Dicklitch), "Public Policy and Economic Rights in Ghana and Uganda," in
Shareen Hertel and Lanse Minkler, eds., Economic Rights: Conceptual, Measurement and Policy
Issues, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 325-344.
2007. “Helen Fein: Scholar and Friend,” in Joyce Apsel and Barbara Harff, eds. Essays in Honor
of Helen Fein, New York: International Association of Genocide Scholars, pp. 43-45.
2007. “Politics of Naming and Politics of Responsibility,” Human Rights and Human Welfare,
Online Roundtable, http://www.du.edu/gsis/hrhw/roundtable/2007/howard-hassmann2007c.html
2007. “Oppressing Women: Who Benefits and How?” Human Rights and Human Welfare,
Online Roundtable, http://www.du.edu/gsis/hrhw/roundtable/2007/howard-hassmann2007b.html
2007. “Cultural Rage: A Severe Threat to Gay Men,” Human Rights and Human Welfare, Online
Roundtable, http://www.du.edu/gsis/hrhw/roundtable/2007/howard-hassmann-2007a.html.
2007. “Reply to the Commentaries,” African Studies Review, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 56-58.
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*2007. (with Anthony P. Lombardo, junior author), "Framing Reparations Claims: Differences
Between the African and Jewish Social Movements for Reparations,” African Studies Review,
vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 27-48.
2007. "Reparations as Luxury or as Basic Need: Atonement for Canadians, Redistribution for
Africans," in Diane E. Davis, ed. Political Power and Social Theory, Oxford: Jai Press, vol. 18,
pp. 227-36.
*2006. "Justice for Africa," in Ronald Tinnevelt and Gert Verschraegen, eds. Between
Cosmopolitan Ideals and State Sovereignty: Studies in Global Justice, (Houndmills-New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 64-74.
2006. Summary of “An Airborne Disease: Globalization through African Eyes”. Globalization
and Autonomy Online Compendium. Available: www.globalautonomy.ca.
*2006. (with Claude E. Welch, Jr.) "Looking at Ourselves," in Economic Rights in Canada and
the United States, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1-22.
2006. "Reply to Adamantia Pollis," Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 1, February, pp. 277278.
2006. “Africa, and my Interest in Human Rights,” in José C. Curto and Yacine Daddi Addoun ,
eds. Newsletter of the Canadian Association of African Studies, Fall 2006, pp. 3-6.
2005. “Genocide and State-Induced Famine: Global Ethics and Western Responsibility for Mass
Atrocities in Africa,” in Joe Masciulli and Richard B. Day, eds., “Globalization and Political
Ethics”, a special issue of Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, vol. 4, no. 3-4,
pp. 487-516.
*2005. (With Anthony P. Lombardo, senior author), “Africans on Reparations: An Analysis of
Elite and Activist Opinion,” Canadian Journal of African Studies, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 517-548.
2005. "A truth commission for Africa?", International Journal, vol. LX, no. 4, (autumn), pp.
999-1016.
*2005. "Genocide," in Globalization and Autonomy Online Compendium, eds. Will Coleman,
Nancy Johnson, Geoffrey Rockwell and Andrew Mactavish. Globalization and Autonomy
Research Project, http://strange.mcmaster.ca.
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*2005. "Women's Rights," in Globalization and Autonomy Compendium, Globalization and
Autonomy Online Compendium, eds. Will Coleman, Nancy Johnson, Geoffrey Rockwell and
Andrew Mactavish. Globalization and Autonomy Research Project, http://strange.mcmaster.ca.
*2005. "International Human Rights (Graduate)", in Joyce A. Apsel, ed. Teaching about Human
Rights, Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association, pp. 71-76. (Course syllabus)
*2005. (with Adrian L. Jones, senior author), "Under Strain: Human Rights and International
Law in the Post 9/11 Era," Journal of Human Rights, vol. 4, no.1, January-March, pp. 61-71.
*2005. “The Second Great Transformation: Human Rights Leapfrogging in the Era of
Globalization”, Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1, 1-40.
*2005. “Culture, Human Rights, and the Politics of Resentment in the Era of Globalization,”
Human Rights Review, vol. 6, no. 1, (October – December, 2004), pp 5 - 26.
*2004. "Getting to Reparations: Japanese Americans and African Americans," Social Forces,
vol. 83, no. 2, December, pp. 823-40.
2004. “Reparations to Africa and the Group of Eminent Persons," Cahiers d’Etudes africaines,
XLIV (1-2), 173-174, pp. 81-97.
*2004. “The Flogging of Bariya Magazu: Nigerian Politics, Canadian Pressures, and Women’s
and Children’s Rights,” Journal of Human Rights, vol. 3, no. 1, (March), pp. 3-20.
2003. "Moral Integrity and Reparations for Africa”, in John Torpey, ed. Politics and the Past:
On Repairing Historical Injustices, Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 193-215.
2003. "Moral Integrity and Reparations to Africa", in George Ulrich and Louise Krabbe Boserup,
eds. Human Rights in Development -- Reparations: Redressing Past Wrongs, Oslo: Nordic
Human Rights Publications, pp. 341-67. (Earlier version of article of same name, above).
*2002. "Sins of the Fathers: Canadian Civic Leaders Discuss Employment Equity", Windsor
Yearbook of Access to Justice, vol. 21, pp. 255-276.
2002. "(Dis)Embedded Women", Michigan Journal of International Law, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 227240.
2002. "Human Rights and Genocide (Course Outline)", in Joyce Apsel and Helen Fein, eds.,
Teaching about Genocide: An Interdisciplinary Guidebook. Washington, D.C., American
Sociological Association, pp.194-98.
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*2001. "The Gay Cousin: Learning to Accept Gay Rights", in Journal of Homosexuality, vol. 42,
no. 1, pp. 127-49. Also available online at University of Denver, Human Rights Working Papers
Series, http://www.du.edu/humanrights/workingpapers/.
*2001. "Gay Rights and the Right to a Family: Conflicts Between Liberal and Illiberal Belief
Systems", Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 1 (February), pp. 73-95. (slightly revised reprint
from Peter Baehr, Cees Flinterman and Mignon Senders, eds., Innovation and Inspiration: Fifty
Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy
of Arts and Sciences.
2001. "Column: Bread and Tea", Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, vol. 19, no. 1,
(March) pp. 3-4.
*2000. "Multiculturalism, Human Rights, and Cultural Relativism: Canadian Civic Leaders
Discuss Women's Rights and Gay and Lesbian Rights", Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights,
vol. 18, no. 4, (December), pp. 493-514.
*2000. "Canadians Discuss Freedom of Speech: Individual Rights versus Group Protection",
International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 109-38. Also available
online at University of Denver, Human Rights Working Papers Series,
http://www.du.edu/humanrights/workingpapers/.
*2000. "Rebuttal to Abu-Laban and Stasiulis", Canadian Public Policy, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 48993.
*1999. "Canadian' as an Ethnic Category: Implications for Multiculturalism and National Unity",
Canadian Public Policy, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 523-37.
1999. "Academic Freedom and Inclusivity in Canadian Universities" in Cyril Levitt, Scott
Davies and Neil McLaughlin, eds. Mistaken Identities: The Second Wave of Controversy over
"Political Correctness" (New York: Peter Lang), pp. 172-86.
1999. "Women's Rights as Group Rights", in Cyril Levitt, Scott Davies and Neil McLaughlin,
eds. Mistaken Identities: The Second Wave of Controversy over APolitical Correctness" (New
York: Peter Lang), pp. 130-45.
1999. "Capitalism and Human Rights" (Review Article), Buffalo Human Rights Law Review, vol.
5, pp. 283-89.
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1999. "Gay Rights and the Right to a Family", in Peter Baehr, Cees Flinterman and Mignon
Senders, eds., Innovation and Inspiration: Fifty Years of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights: Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, pp. 111-129.
1998. "History Stalks Before it Strikes: Tightened Identity and the Right to Self-Determination",
in M. Castermans, F. van Hoof and J. Smith, eds., The Role of the Nation-State in the 21st
Century, The Netherlands: Kluwer Law International, pp. 61-78.
*1998. "Being Canadian: Citizenship in Canada", Citizenship Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 133-52.
*1998. "Human Rights and the Culture Wars", International Journal, vol. 53, no.1.
1998. "Are (Should) Human Rights (Be) Universal", Update on Law-Related Education
(American Bar Association), vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 29, 31 and 32.
(Somewhat revised version of "Human Rights and the Necessity for Cultural Change", in Focus
on Law Studies (a publication of the American Bar Association), Vol. 8, no. 1, Fall 1992, pp. 4
and 6).
1997. "Human Rights", in John Middleton, ed. Encyclopaedia of Sub-Saharan Africa, New
York: Simon and Schuster.
*1997. "Curriculum Development for an Interdisciplinary Minor", in George Andreopoulos and
Richard Pierre Claude eds. Human Rights Education for the Twenty-First Century, Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 209-20.
*1997. (unsigned) "Canada", in Kevin Boyle and Juliet Sheen, eds. Freedom of Religion and
Belief: a World Report (London: Routledge), pp. 100-110.
1996. (with Jack Donnelly) "Human Rights Self-Monitoring: A Proposal for the Northern
European Democracies" (Bergen, Norway: Christian Michelsen Institute), pp. 27.
*1995-6. "Civil Conflict in sub-Saharan Africa: Internally-Generated Causes", International
Journal, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 27-53.
*1995. Editorial (unsigned). "Human Rights Have Always Been Women's Rights". Netherlands
Quarterly of Human Rights, vol. 13, no.4, pp. 365-6.
1995. "Genocide [course outline]", in More Teaching About International Organization:
Selected Syllabi. (Providence, RI: Academic Council on the United Nations, Thomas J. Watson
Institute, Brown University), pp. 103-7.
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*1995. "Occidentalism, Human Rights, and the Obligations of Western Scholars", Canadian
Journal of African Studies, 29, 1.
*1995. "Human Rights and the Search for Community" (summary of volume of the same name),
Journal of Peace Research, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 1-8.
*1993. "Women's Rights and the Right to Development in Sub-Saharan Africa" in Ronald
Cohen, Goran Hyden and Winston P. Nagan, eds., Human Rights and Governance in Africa
(Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1992), pp. 111-38.
*1993. "Cultural Absolutism and the Nostalgia for Community", Human Rights Quarterly, vol.
15, no 2, May, pp. 315-38.
1992. "Health Costs of Social Degradation and Female Self-Mutilation in North America", in
Kathleen Mahoney and Paul Mahoney, eds. Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century: a Global
Challenge (Amsterdam: Martinus Nijhoff), pp. 503-16.
*1992. "Communitarianism and Liberalism in the Debates on Human Rights in Africa", Journal
of Contemporary African Studies, vol. 1, no 4, 1992, pp. 1-21.
*1992. "Human Rights and Democratization in Nigeria: Comparison with Indonesia",
Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights vol. 4, no. 10, pp. 414-46.
1992. "Human Rights and the Necessity for Cultural Change", in Focus on Law Studies (a
publication of the American Bar Association), Vol. 8, no. 1, Fall 1992, pp. 4 and 6.
1992. "Practical Problems of Monitoring Human Rights Violations", in Alex P. Schmid and
Albert J. Jongman, eds., Monitoring Human Rights Violations (Leiden: Center for the Study of
Social Conflicts, Faculty of Social Sciences, Leiden University, Publication No. 43), pp. 73-83.
*1992. "Dignity, Community and Human Rights", in Abdullahi A. An-Na'im, ed. Human Rights
in Cross-Cultural Perspectives: A Quest for Consensus (Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia
Press), pp. 81-102.
1992. "Genocide and Ethnicity" [Course Outline], in Joyce Freedman-Apsel and Helen Fein, eds.
Teaching about Genocide (Ottawa: Human Rights Internet, University of Ottawa on behalf of
Institute for the Study of Genocide, New York), pp. 86-90.
1991. "Repression and State Terror in Kenya, 1982-88", in P. Timothy Bushnell, Vladimir
Schlapentokh, Christopher K. Vanderpool and Jeyaratnam Sundram, eds., State-Organized
Terror: the Case of Violent Internal Repression (Boulder: Westview), pp. 77-97.
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1991. "Genocide in Croatia (1941-1945) and Ethnic Denial and Backlash", ISG (Institute for the
Study of Genocide) Newsletter, no. 8 (Fall), pp. 2 and 10.
1991. "Commentary" on Jean-Denis Archambault, "Les Meandres Juridiques de l'Acces a une
Justice 'Alternative' dans les Pays en Voie de Developpement", Windsor Yearbook of Access to
Justice, vol. 10, pp. 447-50.
1991. "The National Question in Canada: Quebec", Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 3, pp.
412-19.
*1990. "Group Versus Individual Identity in the African Debate on Human Rights" in Abdullahi
A. An-Na'im and Francis Deng (eds.) Human Rights in Africa: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
(Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution), pp. 159-83.
*1990. (with Jack Donnelly) "Confronting Revolution in Nicaragua: U.S. and Canadian
Responses" (New York: Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs), distributed by the
Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Pew Case Studies Center, Georgetown University,
Washington, D.C.
1990. "Monitoring Human Rights: Problems of Consistency", Ethics and International Affairs,
vol. 4, 33-52.
1990. "Civil/Political Rights and Canadian Development Assistance", in Irving Brecher, ed.
Human Rights, Development and Foreign Policy: Canadian Perspectives, (Canadian Institute
for International Affairs), pp. 355-75.
*1989. "Human Rights, Development and Foreign Policy", in David P. Forsythe, ed. Human
Rights and Development: International Views, (London: Macmillan) pp. 213-34.
*1988. "Black Africa and South Africa", in Robert O. Matthews and Cranford Pratt, eds. Human
Rights in Canadian Foreign Policy (Montreal: McGill-Queen's Press), pp. 265-284.
*1988. (with Jack Donnelly) "Assessing National Human Rights Performance: A Theoretical
Framework, Human Rights Quarterly, 10, 2, pp. 214-248.
*1988. "Third World Trade Unions as Agencies of Human Rights: The Case of Commonwealth
Africa", in Roger Southall, ed. Trade Unions and the New Industrialization of the Third World
(London: Zed Press; Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press; and Pittsburgh: University of
Pittsburgh Press), pp. 231-249.
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1987. "Human Rights in Black Africa and South Africa: An Illegitimate Comparison",
Transafrica Forum, 5, 1, pp. 39-56.
1987. (with Jack Donnelly), "Introduction" to Donnelly and Howard, (eds.) International
Handbook on Human Rights (New York: Greenwood Press), 1-28.
*1987. (Jack Donnelly), "Liberalism, Human Rights and Human Dignity" [reply to Neil
Mitchell], American Political Science Review, 81, 3, pp. 924-927.
*1986. "Is There an African Concept of Human Rights?", in R.J. Vincent, ed. Foreign Policy
and Human Rights (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Royal Institute of
International Affairs), pp. 11-31.
*1986. (with Jack Donnelly) "Human Dignity, Human Rights and Political Regimes", American
Political Science Review 80, No. 3, pp. 801-817.
1985. "Women and the Crisis in Commonwealth Africa", International Political Science Review,
special issue on women (ed. Renate Siemienska), 6, No. 3, pp. 287-296.
1985. "Law and Economic Rights in Commonwealth Africa," California Western International
Law Journal, vol. 15, no. 3, (Summer), pp. 607-632.
*1985. "Legitimacy and Class Rule in Commonwealth Africa: Constitutionalism and the Rule of
Law", Third World Quarterly 7, No. 2, pp. 323-347.
*1984. "Evaluating Human Rights in Africa: Some Problems of Implicit Comparisons", Human
Rights Quarterly 6, No. 4, pp. 160-179.
*1984. "Women's Rights in English-Speaking Sub-Saharan Africa" in Claude E. Welch, Jr. and
Robert I. Meltzer, eds. Human Rights and Development in Africa (New York: SUNY Press), pp.
46-74.
*1983. "The `Full-Belly' Thesis: Should Economic Rights take Priority over Civil and Political
Rights? Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa", Human Rights Quarterly 5, No. 4, pp. 467-490.
1982. "Human Rights and Personal Law: Women in Sub-Saharan Africa", Issue: A Journal of
Africanist Opinion 12, Nos. 1/2, pp. 45-52.
*1981. "The Canadian Government Response to Africa's Refugee Problem", Canadian Journal
of African Studies 15, No. 1, pp. 95-116.
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*1980. "Formation and Stratification of the Peasantry in Colonial Ghana", Journal of Peasant
Studies 8, No. 1, pp. 61-80.
*1980. "The Dilemma of Human Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa", International Journal 35, No.
4, pp. 724-747.
*1980. "Contemporary Canadian Refugee Policy: A Critical Assessment", Canadian Public
Policy 6, No. 2, pp. 361-373.
*1976. "Differential Class Participation in an African Protest Movement: the Ghana Cocoa
Boycott of 1937-38", Canadian Journal of African Studies 10, No. 3, pp. 469-480.
*1976. "Economic Imperialism and Oligopolization of Trade in the Gold Coast: 1886-1939",
Ufahamu 7, No. 1, pp. 71-92.
c) Other
2004. "Meat Market" and "Ius Sanguinis", poetry in Journal of Genocide Research.
2001. "Les Droits de la Personne Universels", website of Canadian Human Rights Foundation,
http://www.chrf.ca/francais/programmes_fran/files/ifdp/past-sessions-22/Universal-rightsfr%20.pdf.
2000. “Identity, Empathy and International Relations,” available on line at McMaster University,
Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition, Working Paper GHC 00/2, April
2000,http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~global/global.htm.
1992 "An Introduction to the Debates on Human Rights in Africa", teaching MS not submitted
for publication. Available on request.
1991. "International Human Rights as a Social Problem", Occasional paper, Montreal Institute
for Genocide Studies.
BOOK REVIEWS
64 book reviews published or forthcoming in African Book Publishing Record, African
Economic History, African Studies Review, Africana Journal, American Historical Review,
American Political Science Review, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social
Science, Buffalo Human Rights Law Review, Canadian Ethnic Studies, Canadian Journal of
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African Studies, Canadian Journal of Development Studies, Canadian Journal of Political
Science, Canadian Journal of Sociology, Canadian Journal of Sociology Online, Canadian Public
Administration, Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, Contemporary Sociology,
Human Rights Quarterly, Institute for the Study of Genocide Newsletter, International Journal,
Journal of African History, Journal of Church and State, Journal of Comparative Family Studies,
Journal of Contemporary African Studies, Journal of Genocide Research, McMaster University
Faculty Association Newsletter, Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, Perspectives on
Politics, Resources for Feminist Research.
TRANSLATIONS AND REPRINTS
2008. “‘Canadian” as an Ethnic Category: Implications for Multiculturalism and National
Unity,”in Michelle Webber and Kate Bezanson, eds. Rethinking Society in the 21st Century:
Critical Readings in Sociology, 2cd. Ed., Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 232-41.
2008. “Reparations for the Slave Trade: Rhetoric, Law, History and Political Realities,” in A.
Sabitha, ed., Redressing Injustice: Reparations, Icfai University Press, Hyderabad, India, pp. 1745.
2007. (with Jack Donnelly) “Liberalism and Human Rights: a Necessary Connection" in
Micheline R. Ishay, ed. The Human Rights Reader, 2nd edition, New York: Routledge, 2007, pp.
404-10.
2007. “Genocide and State-Induced Famine: Global Ethics and Western Responsibility for Mass
Atrocities in Africa,” in Richard B. Day and Joe Masciulli, eds., Globalization and Political
Ethics, Leiden-Boston: Brill, pp. 237-66.
2006. “(Dis)Embedded Women,” in Anthony D’Amato and Jennifer Abbassi, eds. International
Law Today: A Handbook, St. Paul, MN: Thomson West, pp. 126-7.
2006. ‘The Full-Belly Thesis”, in Christof Heyns and Karen Stefiszyn, eds. Human Rights,
Peace and Justice in Africa: a Reader, Pretoria: Pretoria University Law Press, pp. 75-82.
2006. “‘Canadian” as an Ethnic Category: Implications for Multiculturalism and National
Unity,” in Sean P. Hier and B. Singh Bolaria, eds. Identity and Belonging: Rethinking Race and
Ethnicity in Canada, Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press, pp. 217-232, reprinted from Canadian
Public Policy, vol. 25, no. 4, 1999,. pp. 523-37.
2006. “Druga Velika Preobrazba: Preskoki Človekovih Pravic V Dobi Globalizacije” in Miro
Haček and Drago Zajc (eds), Demokracija V Globalizaciji – Globalizacija V Demokraciji,
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(Ljubljana, Slovenia) pp. 29-44. Translation into Slovenian of “The Second Great
Transformation: Human Rights Leapfrogging in the Era of Globalization”, in Richard Pierre
Claude and Burns H. Weston, eds, Human Rights in the World Community: Issues and Action,
3rd. ed., Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006, pp. 53-63.
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Globalization”, in Richard Pierre Claude and Burns H. Weston, eds, Human Rights in the World
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2000. HAM: Penjelajahan Dalih Relativisme Budaya, Jakarta: Pustaka Utama Grafiti
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International Human Rights in Context: Law, Politics, Morals, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford
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ed., Human Rights in Cross-Cultural Perspectives, 1992.
1999. "Curriculum Development for an Interdisciplinary Minor", in George Andreopoulos and
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1999. "Are (Should) Human Rights (Be) Universal", Update on Law-Related Education
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1996. (with Jack Donnelly). "Human Rights in World Politics", in Robert J. Art and Robert
Jervis, eds. International Politics: Enduring Concepts and Contemporary Issues, 4th Ed., (New
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1996. "Dignity, Community and Human Rights", in Henry Steiner and Philip Alston, eds.
International Human Rights in Context: Law, Politics, Morals, Oxford: Oxford University Press,
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in Cross-Cultural Perspectives, 1992.
1995. "Women's Rights and the Right to Development", in Julie Peters and Andrea Wolpers,
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revised version of article by the same name (1986).
1986. "The Dilemma of Human Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa", in Marion E. Doro and Newell
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article by the same name, 1980.
1985. "Ihmisoikeudet Afrikassa: Mihin Perustaa Vertailu?", in Kehitys Ihmisoikeutena (Human
Rights), Helsinki, pp. 4-23. Translation of "Evaluating Human Rights in Africa: Some Problems
of Implicit Comparisons", (1984).
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