Abouharb, M. Rodwan, and Susan Aaronson. 2011. “Unexpected Bedfellows: The GATT, the WTO and Some Democratic Rights.” International Studies Quarterly. 55: 379-408. The WTO system and democratic rights are unexpected bedfellows. The GATT⁄WTO requires governments to adopt policies that provide foreign products (read producers) with due process, political participation, and information rights related to trade […]
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IMF Programs and Human Rights, 1981-2003
on January 12, 2009in Peer Reviewed Journalstags: extra judicial killing, forced disappearance, Human Rights, IMF Programs, physical integrity rights, political imprisonment, torturewith No Comments
Abouharb, M. Rodwan, and David Cingranelli. 2009. “IMF Programs and Human Rights, 1981-2003.” Review of International Organizations. 4(1): 47-72. We examined the effects of International Monetary Fund (IMF) supervised programs on changes in government respect for physical integrity rights in developing countries between 1981 and 2003. A longer period under an IMF program increased government […]
Read More →A New Dataset on Infant Mortality Rates, 1816-2002
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Abouharb, M. Rodwan and Anessa L. Kimball. 2007. “A New Dataset on Infant Mortality Rates, 1816-2002.” Journal of Peace Research 44(6): 743–754. Systematic data on annual infant mortality rates are of use to a variety of social science research programs in demography, economics, sociology, and political science. Infant mortality rates may be used both as […]
Read More →The Human Rights Peace: How the Respect for Human Rights at Home Leads to Peace Abroad
on August 12, 2006in Peer Reviewed Journalstags: extra judicial killing, forced disappearance, Human Rights, international conflict, norms, physical integrity rights, political imprisonment, repression, torturewith No Comments
Sobek, David, M. Rodwan Abouharb, and Christopher G. Ingram. 2006. “The Human Rights Peace: How the Respect for Human Rights at Home Leads to Peace Abroad.” Journal of Politics (August) 68 (3): 519-529. Respect for human rights represents self-imposed restraints on the behavior of a government. These limits signify both a domestic norm and a […]
Read More →The Human Rights Effects of World Bank Structural Adjustment Lending, 1981-2000
on June 12, 2006in Peer Reviewed Journalstags: extra judicial killing, forced disappearance, Human Rights, political imprisonment, Structural Adjustment, torture, World Bank Programswith No Comments
Abouharb, M. Rodwan, and David Cingranelli. 2006. “The Human Rights Effects of World Bank Structural Adjustment Lending, 1981-2000.” International Studies Quarterly (June) 50: 233-262. Does the implementation of a World Bank structural adjustment agreement (SAA) increase or decrease government respect for human rights? Neoliberal theory suggests that SAAs improve economic performance, generating better human rights […]
Read More →Interventions and Civil Conflicts: Tools of Conflict Management or Simply Another Participant?
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Regan, Patrick M. and M. Rodwan Abouharb. 2002. “Interventions and Civil Conflicts: Tools of Conflict Management or Simply Another Participant?” World Affairs 165:1 42-54. The end of the Cold War has brought with it an increased attention to managing internal conflicts. The UN alone has seen a multifold increase in the number of peacekeeping operations, […]
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