International Justice: A Critical and Comprehensive Introduction
Author(s): Arnaud Kurze , Daniela Peterka-Benton , Gabriel Rubin
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2024
Pages: 188
This textbook introduces students to think and write critically against the backdrop of a broad theoretical and empirical foundation of the concept of international justice. It brings together several global and transnational issues from an interdisciplinary perspective. It exposes students to a wide range of political, economic, social and cultural problems across different world regions, including migration, climate change, mass violence, and pandemics. Thanks to this book, students learn to apply different theoretical frameworks, such as environmentalism or feminism, to analyze and better understand the interconnectedness and the transnational character of these global justice-related problems across societies and cultures.
Introduction
PART 1: SETTING THE STAGE
Chapter 1: Evolution of Justice Over Time
Chapter 2: Building Blocks of Our World: People, Cultures, Countries
Chapter 3: Mapping International Justice: Introducing Different Perspectives
PART 2: CONFLICT, CRIME, AND PEACE
Chapter 4: War and Conflict
Chapter 5: Transnational Crime
Chapter 6: Peacebuilding and Keeping
PART 3: POVERTY, HEALTH, ENVIRONMENT, AND IMMIGRATION
Chapter 7: Economic Inequality and Development
Chapter 8: Global Public Health
Chapter 9: The Environment
Chapter 10: International Migration
PART 4: SOCIETY, GENDER, AND JUSTICE
Chapter 11: Human Rights
Chapter 12: People Power
Chapter 13: Global Gender Inequality
Conclusion
Arnaud Kurze is an associate professor of justice studies at Montclair State University. His scholarship on transitional justice in the post-Arab Spring world focuses particularly on youth activism, art, and collective memory. He is a global fellow at The Wilson Center, working on an international digital archives collaboration called Project AROS, aimed at improving the visualization of historical documents and data. He is the co-author of the following books Mapping Queerness in Times of Uncertainty (forthcoming 2025), Justicecraft: Imagining Justice in Times of Conflict (2024), Mapping Global Justice (2023), and the editor of New Critical Spaces in Transitional Justice: Gender, Art & Memory (2019). He is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the Library of Congress, Fulbright, and the American Council on Learned Societies and Sciences.
Daniela Peterka-Benton is associate professor of justice studies at Montclair State University. She has a PhD in sociology with a specialization in criminology from the University of Vienna, Austria. Her research interests center around transnational crimes such as human trafficking, human smuggling, arms trafficking, and rightwing terrorism and extremism. She has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals including International Migration Review, Journal of the Institute of Justice & International Studies, and Journal of Applied Security Research. Prior to her focusing on a full-time academic career, she worked for the U.S. State Department’s Office of Diplomatic Security at the U.S. Embassy in Vienna, Austria.
Gabriel Rubin is professor of justice studies at Montclair State University. He earned his PhD in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He researches terrorism, migration, rhetoric and public opinion. He has published widely in academic journals as a single and co-author. He is the author of three books: Migration and Radicalization: Global Futures (2021), Presidential Rhetoric on Terrorism under Bush, Obama and Trump: Inflating and Calibrating the Threat after 9/11 (2020), and Freedom and Order: How Democratic Governments Restrict Civil Liberties after Terrorist Attacks--and Why Sometimes they Don’t (2011).
This comprehensive textbook covers all the most significant topics in the vast field of international justice- from conflict to peacebuilding and economic justice- while maintaining a critical perspective and an engaging, readable style.
Jelena Subotic, Georgia State University
The authors of this timely book critically examine the broad topic of international justice. They tackle a wide range of issues and perspectives associated with injustice around the world, such as corporate social responsibility, gender inequality, human rights, and public health. This book will open minds.
Guy Ziv, American University
This textbook introduces students to think and write critically against the backdrop of a broad theoretical and empirical foundation of the concept of international justice. It brings together several global and transnational issues from an interdisciplinary perspective. It exposes students to a wide range of political, economic, social and cultural problems across different world regions, including migration, climate change, mass violence, and pandemics. Thanks to this book, students learn to apply different theoretical frameworks, such as environmentalism or feminism, to analyze and better understand the interconnectedness and the transnational character of these global justice-related problems across societies and cultures.
Introduction
PART 1: SETTING THE STAGE
Chapter 1: Evolution of Justice Over Time
Chapter 2: Building Blocks of Our World: People, Cultures, Countries
Chapter 3: Mapping International Justice: Introducing Different Perspectives
PART 2: CONFLICT, CRIME, AND PEACE
Chapter 4: War and Conflict
Chapter 5: Transnational Crime
Chapter 6: Peacebuilding and Keeping
PART 3: POVERTY, HEALTH, ENVIRONMENT, AND IMMIGRATION
Chapter 7: Economic Inequality and Development
Chapter 8: Global Public Health
Chapter 9: The Environment
Chapter 10: International Migration
PART 4: SOCIETY, GENDER, AND JUSTICE
Chapter 11: Human Rights
Chapter 12: People Power
Chapter 13: Global Gender Inequality
Conclusion
Arnaud Kurze is an associate professor of justice studies at Montclair State University. His scholarship on transitional justice in the post-Arab Spring world focuses particularly on youth activism, art, and collective memory. He is a global fellow at The Wilson Center, working on an international digital archives collaboration called Project AROS, aimed at improving the visualization of historical documents and data. He is the co-author of the following books Mapping Queerness in Times of Uncertainty (forthcoming 2025), Justicecraft: Imagining Justice in Times of Conflict (2024), Mapping Global Justice (2023), and the editor of New Critical Spaces in Transitional Justice: Gender, Art & Memory (2019). He is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the Library of Congress, Fulbright, and the American Council on Learned Societies and Sciences.
Daniela Peterka-Benton is associate professor of justice studies at Montclair State University. She has a PhD in sociology with a specialization in criminology from the University of Vienna, Austria. Her research interests center around transnational crimes such as human trafficking, human smuggling, arms trafficking, and rightwing terrorism and extremism. She has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals including International Migration Review, Journal of the Institute of Justice & International Studies, and Journal of Applied Security Research. Prior to her focusing on a full-time academic career, she worked for the U.S. State Department’s Office of Diplomatic Security at the U.S. Embassy in Vienna, Austria.
Gabriel Rubin is professor of justice studies at Montclair State University. He earned his PhD in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He researches terrorism, migration, rhetoric and public opinion. He has published widely in academic journals as a single and co-author. He is the author of three books: Migration and Radicalization: Global Futures (2021), Presidential Rhetoric on Terrorism under Bush, Obama and Trump: Inflating and Calibrating the Threat after 9/11 (2020), and Freedom and Order: How Democratic Governments Restrict Civil Liberties after Terrorist Attacks--and Why Sometimes they Don’t (2011).
This comprehensive textbook covers all the most significant topics in the vast field of international justice- from conflict to peacebuilding and economic justice- while maintaining a critical perspective and an engaging, readable style.
Jelena Subotic, Georgia State University
The authors of this timely book critically examine the broad topic of international justice. They tackle a wide range of issues and perspectives associated with injustice around the world, such as corporate social responsibility, gender inequality, human rights, and public health. This book will open minds.
Guy Ziv, American University