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The Price of Confrontation: International Retributive Justice and the Struggle for Haitian-Dominican Rights

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The Uses and Misuses of Human Rights

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The academic discipline of international relations provides models of how the international community can bring rights-abusing states into greater conformity with human rights norms. Can the same be said about how the international community sometimes fails to reach this aim? Do we possess the kinds of theory and case studies that point out the warning signs of failure and prepare us to recognize when our pressure is yielding counterproductive results?

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  1. John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Graduate Center City University, New York, USA

    George Andreopoulos (professor of political science) (professor of political science)

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    Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat (professor of political science) (professor of political science)

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Martinez, S. (2014). The Price of Confrontation: International Retributive Justice and the Struggle for Haitian-Dominican Rights. In: Andreopoulos, G., Arat, Z.F.K. (eds) The Uses and Misuses of Human Rights. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137408341_4

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