POLS 331: Research and Writing in Comparative Politics (HC)

Analyzes scholarship in the field of social sciences including political science, law and society, sociology, and other social sciences as well as the natural sciences. Note the references in the narrative to individual articles and books cited in the column on the right. Examples include:
"Centering Survivors in Local Transitional Justice" (Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 2017)
"Complicit States and the Governing Strategy of Privilege Violence: When Weakness Is Not the Problem" (Annual Review of Political Science, 2018)
"Contextualizing Mass Atrocity Crimes: Moving Toward a Relational Approach" (Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 2013)
"Criminal Governance and the Crisis of Contemporary Latin American States" (Annual Review of Sociology, 2022)
"Latin America, a Continent in Movement but Where To? A Review of Social Movements' Studies in the Region" (Annual Review of Sociology, 2018)
"The Post–Cold War Anthropology of Central America" (Annual Review of Anthropology, 2015)
"The Rise of Local Politics: A Global Review" (Annual Review of Political Science, 2021)
"Truth Commission Impact on Policy, Courts, and Society" (Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 2021)
"Why We Kill: The Political Science of Political Violence against Civilians" (Annual Review of Political Science, 2014)

Extensive annotated bibliographies on specific topics written by scholars in the field. The different subject sections are under development with new essays added twice a year. Entries relevant for thesis topics include:
El Salvador
Modern Populism in Latin America
Human Rights in Latin America
Post-Conflict and Transitional Justice
Responsibility to Protect
South American Dirty Wars

Access dissertations from Britain, Europe, Mexico and other countries from this Tricollege guide.
For additional countries see the page put together by New York University.

Provides overview essays about different aspects of human rights including legal, political, and economic topics.

Editors and researchers provide analytic accounts on key issues involving war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. Includes essays on transitional justice, truth commissions and other restorative efforts. Published in 2022. Available online.

This Handbook depicts the constitutional landscape of Latin America by shedding light on its most important differences and affinities, qualities and drawbacks, and by assessing its overall standing in the global enterprise of democratic constitutionalism.

The essays in this volume survey a broad range of theoretical perspectives on social movements in Latin America and bring together a wide variety of viewpoints.

See essays on concepts, regions, issues and normative debates.

The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is intended to provide an effective framework for responding to crimes of genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. The R2P concept accords to sovereign states and international institutions a responsibility to assist peoples who are at risk - or experiencing - the worst atrocities.

This new Routledge Handbook offers a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the meanings and uses of the term peacebuilding, and presents leading-edge debates on the practices conducted in the name of peacebuilding.