Books: Sole Author
United Nations Human Rights Mechanisms (London and New York: Taylor & Francis, forthcoming 2005).
Bait and Switch: Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy (New York: Routledge, 2004).
War’s Offensive on Women: The Humanitarian Challenge in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan (West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press, 2000)
Kosovo: How Myths and Truths Started a War (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999)
Books: Joint Author
Local Action/Global Change: Learning About the Human Rights of Women and Girls (primary author, in collaboration with Mallika Dutt, Nancy Flowers) (New York: UNIFEM, 1999) (Albanian, Arabic, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian and other language versions).
Step-by-Step: Enforcing Women’s Human Rights of Women and Girls (co-author) (Washington DC: Women, Law and Development and Human Rights Watch, 1997).
Open Wounds: Human Rights Abuses in Kosovo (with Vlatka Mihelic) (New York Human Rights Watch, 1994).
Books: Co-Editor
Human Rights and Conflict (Washington D.C.: United States Institute of Peace, 2004) (under contract; co-editor with Jeffrey Helsing and contributor).
The Suitcase: Refugees’ Voices from Bosnia and Croatia (co-editor and contributor) (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997).
Book Chapters
“Liberal Feminist Approaches: Method and Normative Critique,” in Making Sense of International Relations Theory, Jennifer Sterling-Folker, ed. (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2004).
“The Human Rights Dimensions of the War in Iraq,” in Human Rights and Conflict (Julie Mertus and Jeffrey Helsing, eds. (Washington DC: United States Institute of Peace 2003)(with Maia Carter, American University PhD student).
“Introductory Exercises for a Course in Human Rights and Justice,” in Active Learning Sourcebook on Ethics and Global Politics, April Morgan, ed. (West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press, 2004)(with Nancy Flowers).
“Teaching Truth Commissions,” in Active Learning Sourcebook on Ethics and Global Politics, April Morgan, ed. (West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press, 2004)(with Nancy Flowers).
“Intervention and Human Rights Culture,” in Ethics and Humanitarian Intervention, Anthony Lang, ed. (Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2003).
“The Politics of Memory and International Trials For Wartime,” in Political Transitions: Politics and Cultures, Paul Gready, ed. (New York and London, Pluto Press, 2003).
“The New Sovereignty and Refugee Women,” in Refugees and Forced Displacement: International Security, Human Vulnerability and the State, edited by Edward Newman (Tokyo and New York: United Nations University Press, 2003).
“Racism in civil conflict: domestic and global dimensions,” in Transnational Legal Processes: Globalization and Power Disparities (Michael Likosky, ed., New York and London: Butterworths, 2002).
“The Legality of Information Intervention” in Forging Peace: Intervention, Human Rights and the Management of Media Space (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2002)(Monroe E. Price and Mark Thompson, eds).
“The Learning Curve: Media Intervention in Kosovo” (with Mark Thompson) in Forging Peace: Intervention, Human Rights and the Management of Media Space (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2002)(Monroe E. Price and Mark Thompson, eds).
“National Minorities Under the Dayton Peace Accords,” in Neighbors at War: Anthropological Perspectives on Yugoslavia, Ethnicity, Culture and History, Joel Halpern and David Kideckel, eds. (University Park, PA: Penn State, 2000).
“Peacekeeping in Kosovo: Mission Impossible?” in Kosovo: Contending Voices on Balkan Interventions, William J. Buckley, ed. (New York: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2000).
“The Kitchen Table,” in Frontline Feminisms : Women, War, and Resistance (Gender, Culture, and Global Politics, Volume 5), Marguerite R. Waller and Jennifer Rycenga, eds. (New York: Garland, 2000)(republished in paperback by Routledge, 2001).
“Truth in a Box: the Limits of Justice Through Judicial Mechanisms,” in The Politics of Memory: Truth, Healing and Social Justice, Abdullahi An-Na’im and Ifi Amadiume, eds. (New York: Zed Books, 2000).
“Human Rights and the Promise of Transnational Civil Society,” in The Future of International
Human Rights, Burns Weston and Stephen P. Marks, eds. (New York: Transaction, 1999).
“The Dayton Peace Accords: Lessons from the Past and for the Future,” in Minority Rights in the New Europe, Peter Cumper and Steven Wheatley, eds. (Lancaster, UK: Kluwer, 1999).
“Only a War Crimes Tribunal: Triumph of the International Community, Pain of Survivors,” in War Crime : The Legacy of Nuremberg, Belinda Cooper, ed. (New York: TV Books, 1999).
“Contested Terrains: National Identities’ Role in Shaping and Challenging Gender Identity: Women in Kosovo,” in Women, Society, and Politics in Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav Successor States, Sabrina P. Ramet, ed. (University Park, PA: Penn State, 1999).
“Women’s Human Rights in Central and Eastern Europe,” in Women and International Human Rights, Kelly Askin and Dorean Koenig, eds. (New York: Transaction Press, 1999).
“State Discriminatory Family Law and Customary Abuses,” in Women and Human Rights: An Agenda for Change, Julie Peters and Andrea Wolper, eds. (New York: Routledge, 1994).
Academic Journals
Refereed Articles
“Civil Society's Influence on Human Rights and Foreign Policy,” Human Rights Review (accepted for publication for Spring 2004).
“The New US Human Rights Policy: A Radical Departure” International Studies Perspective 4: 371-384 (2003).
“Shouting from the Bottom of a Well,” International Feminist Journal of Politics, forthcoming, (forthcoming 2003).
“The Impact of Intervention on Local Human Rights Culture,” The Global Journal of Ethnopolitics, vol. 1, no. 2, December 2001, 21-36.
“Doing Democracy ‘Differently’: The Transformative Potential of Human Rights NGOs in Transnational Civil Society,” Third World Legal Studies 205 (1999).
“Considering Non-State Actors in the New Millennium: Toward Expanded Participation in Norm Generation and Norm Application,” 32 (2) New York University Review of International Law and Policy 537 (Special Millennium Issue)(2000)(article chosen based on survey of leading international law professors on the most important and original contributions by younger scholars).
“From Legal Transplants to Transformative Justice: Human Rights and the Promise of Transnational Civil Society,” 14(5) American University Journal of International Law 1335 (1999).
“The Liberal State and the National Soul: Rule of Law Projects in Societies in Transition, 8(1) : 121 Social & Legal Studies 146 (1999).
“The State and the Post-Cold War Refugee Regime: New Models, New Questions,” 20 Michigan Journal of International Law 59 (1998).
“The State and the Post-Cold War Refugee Regime,” 10(3) International Journal of Refugee Law 321 (1998).
“Human Rights of Women in Central and Eastern Europe,” 6 American Journal of Gender and Law 369 (spring 1998).
“Prospects for National Minorities Under The Dayton Peace Accords - Lessons from History, Prospects for Minority Rights,” 23 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 793 (1998).
“Gender in the Service of Nation: Gender Implications of Citizenship in Kosovar Society,” 3 (2/3) Social Politics, (summer/fall 1996).
“Beyond the Solitary Self: Voice: Community and Reproductive Freedom,” 3 Columbia Journal of Gender & Law247 (1992).
“The Nationality of Ships and International Responsibility: The Reflagging of the Kuwatti Oil Tankers,” 17 Denver Journal of International Law & Policy 207 (1988).
“Anti-Abortion Clinics: Protecting Privacy Interests Without Violating the First Amendment,” 15 New York University Review of Law & Social Change 207b (1987).
“Ecclesiastical Sanctuary: Worshippers’ Legitimate Expectations of Privacy,” 5 Yale Law and Policy Review 493 (1987).
Invited Articles
“Improving the Status of Women in the Wake of War: Overcoming Structural Obstacles,” Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 41: 541-553 (2003).
“Considering the Protection Concerns of Refugee and Displaced Women: The Use of a Gender Lens in a Security Framework,” Refugee Survey Quarterly, Vol. 21 (2002)(special issue).
“The Impact of Conflict on Women’s Rights,” Columbia Journal of Transnational Law (forthcoming, spring 2003).
“Considering the Protection Concerns of Refugee and Displaced Women: The Use of a Gender Lens in a Security Framework,” Refugee Survey Quarterly, Vol. 21 (2002)(special issue).
“Understanding Kosovo,” Ethics & International Affairs, Vol. 15, Number 1 (2001).
“Serbia: Reimagining Europe’s Outlaw Nation,” Columbia Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 54(2) (Spring 2001).
“Grounds for Cautious Optimism,” International Feminist Journal of Politics, Vol. 2(1) (April 2001).
“Examining the Legality of the NATO Bombing of Yugoslavia,” 41 (5) William & Mary Law Review 1743 (2000).
“Reassessing the Doctrine of Humanitarian Intervention in the Wake of Kosovo,” 1(2) Human Rights Review 78 (1999).
“Mapping Civil Society Transplants - A Preliminary Comparison of Eastern Europe and Latin America,” 53 University of Miami Law Journal 921 (1999).
“Faith and (In) Tolerance of Minority Religions: A Comparative Analysis of Romania, Poland and Ukraine,” 36 Journal of Ecumenical Studies 65 (1999)(with Kathy Minyard Frost).
“The War Crmes Tribunal: Troumph of the International Community, Pain of the Survivors,” 8(1) Mind and Human Interaction 47 (winter/spring 1997).
“A Perspective on Women and International Human Rights after the Vienna Declaration: The Inside/Outside Construct,” 26 New York University Review of International Law & Policy 201 (1994) (with Pamela Goldberg).
“Women and the Creation of National Identity,” 5 Hastings Women’s Law Journal 1 (1994).
“Nationalism and Nation-Building: Milosevic Turns to Montenegro and Kosovo,” 26 New York University Review of International Law & Policy 511 (1994).
“Norplant Meets the New Eugenicists: The Impermissibility of Coerced Contraception,” 11 St. Louis Public Law Review 359 (1992)(with Simon Heller).
Book Reviews
“The Myth of Greater Albania,” (book review), Slavic Studies (completed and in press for 2004).
Slobodan Milosevic and the Destruction of Yugoslavia,” Political Science Quarterly 118(2): 336 (summer 2003).
“Saving Strangers,” (book review), American Journal of International Law (January 2003).
“Peace Agreements and Human Rights,” (book review) American Journal of International Law 98: 282-287 (2002).
“Ger Duijzings, ‘Religion, Politics and Identity in Kosovo,’” (Book Review), 60(3) Slavic Review (Fall 2001).
”Degraded Capacity: The Media and the Kosovo Crisis,” (book review), Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, Vol. 3, n. 2 (2001).
“Feminist Curiosity Unravels Militarism: Why Method Matters,” (Book Review), 15 Berkeley Women’ Law Journal 338 (2000).
“War Crimes Against Women,” (Book Review), 93 American Journal of International Law 740 (1999).
“Human Rights: Group Defamation, Freedom of Expression and the Law of Nations: What International and Domestic Laws Can Teach the United States,” (Book Review), 21 Houston Journal of International Law 581 (1999).
Conference Proceedings
“Analyzing Social Movements and International Law,” American Society of International Law Annual Proceedings (forthcoming 2003).
“The Imprint of Kosovo on the Law of Humanitarian Intervention,” 6 ILSA Journal of International and Comparative Law 527 (2000)(proceedings of 1999 International Studies Association).
“Assessing the NATO Intervention Under the UN Charter,” 94 American Society of International Law Annual Proceedings 310 (2000).
“Kitchen Table Lessons: Why the Local Matters,” 94 American Society of International Law Annual Proceedings 307 (2000).
“’Terrorism’ as Ideology: Implications for Intervention,” 93 American Society of International Law Annual Proceedings 78 (1999).
“ASIL/ACUNS Summer Alumni Panel on Political and Legal Space,” (Symposium Panel Moderator and Contributor) 92 American Society of International Law Annual Proceedings 67 (1998).
Case Note
“Hellmut Marschall and Land Nordrhein-Westfalen, Court of Justice of the European Community,” 92 American Journal of International Law 296 (1998).
Occasional Papers
“Humanitarian Intervention Reconsidered: Lessons from Kosovo,” East European Studies (The Woodrow Wilson Center) (summer 2001).
“The Role of Racism as a Cause of or Factor in Wars and Civil Conflict,” The International Council on Human Rights Policy, Consultation on Racism and Human Rights, Geneva, Dec. 3-4, 1999 (preparatory meeting for 2001 World Conference on Racism; paper submitted also to United Nations Expert Seminar on Racism, Refugees and Multi-Ethnic States, referenced at UN General Assembly, A/CONF. 189/PC.1/9, 15 March 2000.
Internal Displacement: The Impact on Women in Kosovo,” Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children, June 1998.
“From Legal Transplants to Transformative Justice,” Halle Institute Occasional Paper, Emory University, The Claus M. Halle Institute for Global Learning (n.d.).
Selected Commentary
“Mightier than the Sword: The Bush Administration’s Flagging Human Rights Rhetoric,” Harvard International Review (Spring 2003).
“The Law (?) of Regime Change,” Jurist, February 23, 2003. (http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forum/forumnew98.php).
“Effective Aid Considers Women’s Needs,” USA Today, December 12, 2001.
“Women’s Role in Afghanistan’s Reconstruction,” The Chicago Tribune, November 28, 2001.
“Apply to Afghans Lessons of Kosovo,” The Baltimore Sun, November 16, 2001.
“The Undermining of Human Rights Culture in Kosovo,” Human Rights Dialogue (Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs), Series 2, Number 2 (winter 2001).
“Judgment of Trial Chambers II in the Kunarac, Kovac and Vukovic Case,” ASIL Insight, April 1999 (widely circulated electronic and print publication of the American Society of International Law).
“On Kosovo: Look Back in Anger,” The Institute for the Study of Genocide Newsletter, Number 26 (spring 2001).
“Kosovo’s Future,” The New York Times, October 31, 2000 (letter).
“How to Create a Sovereign Kosovo,” The Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 3, 2000.
“Kosovo’s People Must Decide Fate,” The Baltimore Sun, Sept. 7, 2000.
“Hope, Hunger and Serbia,” The Washington Post, Oct. 21, 1999.
“Human Rights Should Know No Boundaries,” ASIL Insight, April 1999 (widely circulated electronic and print publication of the American Society of International Law).
“Back to the Drawing Board: Human Rights Should Know No Boundaries,” The Washington Post, April 11, 1999.
“The Next Obvious Step – NATO Complicit in Genocide,” The Chicago Tribune, Jan. 14, 1999.
“Yugoslavia has Become an Outlaw Nation,” The Chicago Tribune, Jan. 14, 1999.
“Events Justify NATO’s Mission in Kosovo,” USA Today, Oct. 9, 1998.
“No Welcome for Serbia,” (letter) The New York Times, July 9, 1998.
“Too Late in Kosovo,” The Atlanta Journal Constitution, July, 1998.
“Getting it Right on Kosovo,” The Chicago Tribune, April 29, 1998.
“Multiple Albanian Crises: The Problems in Albania Proper and Kosovo are Distinct,” The Christian Science Monitor, March 21, 1997.
“Even Democratized Romania Can’t Hide Obvious Scars Suffered by Children,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 30, 1996.
“Remembering Kosovo,” Uncaptive Minds, winter 1996.
“A Wall of Silence Divides Serbian and Albanian Opinion on Kosovo,” 2(6) Transition, March 22, 1996.
“For Peace in the Balkans, Don’t Leave Kosovo Out,” International Herald Tribune, Oct. 25, 1995.
“Will Kosovo Explode Next?,” The New York Times, Oct. 21, 1995 (re-published in Serbian and Albanian language newspapers).
“The Restaurant,” On the Issues, Nov. 1995 (republished in Dutch and Swedish).
“The Serbian Refugees are Angry: That May Spark the Next Disaster,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, Aug. 15, 1995.
“Fleeing Bosnia, Blocked by America,” The New York Times, Dec. 9, 1994.
“Unknown - Return to Sender: No Refuge for Bosnian Muslims,” The Nation, Oct. 31, 1994
“What Stonewall Means for the Iron Curtain,” The San Francisco Chronicle, June 27, 1994.
“Like Rabbits In the Serbs’ Gun Sight,” The International Herald Tribune, Jan. 20, 1994, (republished in Albanian-language papers in Serbia and Albania).
“Will Montenegro Cut From Yugoslavia?,” The Christian Science Monitor, Nov. 10, 1993, (republished in Montenegrin paper).
“Evidence Must Be Gathered Now to Prosecute Balkan War Crimes,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, Sept. 2, 1993.
“War Crimes and the Law,” The New York Times (letter), Aug. 18, 1993.
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