Julie Mertus
Biographic Data
| ID | 843129 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julie Mertus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julie |
| FAMILY NAME | Mertus |
| SIGNATURE | MERTUS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Human Rights
The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. A burgeoning human rights movement followed, yielding many treaties and new international institutions and shaping the constitutions and laws of many states. Yet human rights continue to be contested politically and legally and there is substantial philosophical and theoretical debate over their foundations and implications. In this volume, distinguishe…
Human Rights, State Compliance, and Social Change
National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) – human rights commissions and ombudsmen – have gained recognition as a possible missing link in the transmission and implementation of international human rights norms at the domestic level. They are also increasingly accepted as important participants in global and regional forums where international norms are produced. By collecting innovative work from experts spanning international law, political sc…
Human Rights in the United States
This book brings to light emerging evidence of a shift toward a fuller engagement with international human rights norms and their application to domestic policy dilemmas in the United States. The volume offers a rich history, spanning close to three centuries, of the marginalization of human rights discourse in the United States. Contributors analyze cases of US human rights advocacy aimed at addressing persistent inequalities within the United S…
A Review of “Human Rights and Conflict Resolution in Context
Surviving Field Research
1. Introduction: Surviving Research Julie Mertus 2. Demystifying field research John C. King Part 1: Ethics 3. Exceeding Scholarly Responsibility: IRBs and Political Constraints Judy Hemming 4. Methods and Ethics with Research Teams and NGOs: Comparing Experiences Across the Border of Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo Elizabeth Levy Paluck 5. Maintenance of Standards of Protection during Writeup and Publication Chandra Lekha Sriram Part 2: …
Just Politics
Journal Article Just Politics: Human Rights and the Foreign Policy of Great Powers by C. William Walldorf Get access Just Politics: Human Rights and the Foreign Policy of Great Powers by C. William Walldorf. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2008. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $21.95. Julie Mertus Julie Mertus American University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 124, Issue 3,…
Operation Allied Force
Journal Article Operation Allied Force: handmaiden of independent Kosovo Get access JULIE A. MERTUS JULIE A. MERTUS 1Professor and Co-Director of the MA program in Ethics, Peace and Global Affairs at American University, Washington DC Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 85, Issue 3, May 2009, Pages 461–476, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2346.2009.00808.x Published: 28 April 2009
Human Rights and Human Insecurity
Counterterrorism campaigns that fail to recognize the critical connection between rights denial and terrorism are shortsighted. To fight terrorism without regard to human rights furthers terrorist goals by endorsing the same faulty thinking of the terrorists: the ends justify the means. Since declaring the “global war on terror” in 2001, not only has the Bush administration failed to place human rights promotion at the center of its counterterror…
Peace at Any Price
Teaching Gender in International Relations
What are “feminisms” and how might teaching them contribute to IR pedagogy? For the field of international relations, feminisms contribute both a methodology and a deep normative critique. This piece argues that teaching gender analysis as critique is an indispensable pedagogical tool and outlines three means by which it might be mainstreamed into IR teaching
Power and Principle
Power and Principle: Human Rights Programming in International Organizations. By Joel E. Oestreich. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2007. 243p. $59.95 cloth, $29.95 paper. The power of human rights to shape the mandate and operations of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) is vividly illustrated in this timely study. Highly readable and original, it holds great appeal for both students and scholars in the fields of international or…
Findings from Focus Group Research on Public Perceptions of the Icty
Our research suggests continuing difficulties faced by the ICTY in establishing its legitimacy in the states over which it exercises oversight.Only some of these problems derive from pre-existing political orientations in support of the parties which organized and carried out violations of international humanitarian law.Other problems are more closely related to the ICTYʹs own procedures, to a lack of clarity regarding the purposes of the ICTY, a…
T he H uman R ights D imensions of W ar in I raq
This article considers the advantage of the adoption of a human rights framework in analysis of issues of pressing concern to peace studies, such as the use of force, the imposition of sanctions, and general neglect of nonviolent alternative responses to state violence. Although the invocation of a human rights framework may not provide definitive answers on the appropriate responses, the framework can provide a vocabulary and space within which …
Raising expectations? Civil society’s influence on human rights and US foreign policy
(2004). Raising expectations? Civil society’s influence on human rights and US foreign policy. Journal of Human Rights: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 21-40
Shouting from the Bottom of the Well The Impact of International Trials for Wartime Rape on Women's Agency
This article critically examines the presumption that international adjudication of wartime rape cases advances the interests of survivors. It argues that just as national women's rights advocates recognize the futility of relying on court testimony alone for the production of a narrative that reflects women's experiences, promotes their agency and addresses their need for closure and healing, international women's rights advocates should explore…
Improving International Peacebuilding Efforts
Kosovo today is a house of cards. One false move and the house will fall down. Should the international troops--in particular the U.S. and British troops--pull out of Kosovo, it will collapse into communal violence. (1) The international security presence in Kosovo has generally succeeded in preventing the outbreak of another violent armed conflict but has accomplished little else beyond that. This is not surprising. Militaries can help prevent w…
Bait and switch
The New U.S. Human Rights Policy
Journal Article The New U.S. Human Rights Policy: A Radical Departure Get access Julie Mertus Julie Mertus American University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Perspectives, Volume 4, Issue 4, November 2003, Pages 371–384, https://doi.org/10.1111/1528-3577.404003 Published: 15 October 2003
Slobodan Milosevic and the Destruction of Yugoslavia
The impact of intervention on local human rights culture
Legitimizing the Use of Force in Kosovo
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Beyond borders
Grounds for Cautious Optimism
Humanitarian assistance organizations have made considerable strides in addressing gender issues. These efforts have fallen short, however, as organizations fail to adapt and apply a gender perspective consistently and to integrate local and international women into decision-making positions. This comment on Chris Corrin's report on humanitarian assistance in Kosova outlines the reasons for this partial failure, some of which are gender related a…
Kosovo
Julie Mertus provides one of the first comprehensive looks at the explosive situation in Kosovo, where years of simmering tensions between Serbs and Albanians erupted in armed conflict in 1998. In a profound and detailed study of national identity and ethnic conflict, Mertus demonstrates how myths and truths can start a war. She shows how our identity as individuals and as members of groups is defined through the telling and remembering of storie…
The Liberal State Vs The National Soul
The story of the liberal agenda in the former Yugoslavia and other ‘societies in transition’ is a process involving a unity of opposites - of particularism and universalism; local nationalism and global liberalism. This essay suggests a set of tools with which to re-examine the work of foreign actors engaged in ‘rule of law’ and ‘civil society’ projects in countries such as the former Yugoslavia. The essay examines three orientations of the domin…
Shouting from the Bottom of the Well The Impact of International Trials for Wartime Rape on Women's Agency
This article critically examines the presumption that international adjudication of wartime rape cases advances the interests of survivors. It argues that just as national women's rights advocates recognize the futility of relying on court testimony alone for the production of a narrative that reflects women's experiences, promotes their agency and addresses their need for closure and healing, international women's rights advocates should explore…
The impact of intervention on local human rights culture
Teaching Gender in International Relations
What are “feminisms” and how might teaching them contribute to IR pedagogy? For the field of international relations, feminisms contribute both a methodology and a deep normative critique. This piece argues that teaching gender analysis as critique is an indispensable pedagogical tool and outlines three means by which it might be mainstreamed into IR teaching
Human Rights and Human Insecurity
Counterterrorism campaigns that fail to recognize the critical connection between rights denial and terrorism are shortsighted. To fight terrorism without regard to human rights furthers terrorist goals by endorsing the same faulty thinking of the terrorists: the ends justify the means. Since declaring the “global war on terror” in 2001, not only has the Bush administration failed to place human rights promotion at the center of its counterterror…
Improving International Peacebuilding Efforts
Kosovo today is a house of cards. One false move and the house will fall down. Should the international troops--in particular the U.S. and British troops--pull out of Kosovo, it will collapse into communal violence. (1) The international security presence in Kosovo has generally succeeded in preventing the outbreak of another violent armed conflict but has accomplished little else beyond that. This is not surprising. Militaries can help prevent w…
Power and Principle
Power and Principle: Human Rights Programming in International Organizations. By Joel E. Oestreich. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2007. 243p. $59.95 cloth, $29.95 paper. The power of human rights to shape the mandate and operations of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) is vividly illustrated in this timely study. Highly readable and original, it holds great appeal for both students and scholars in the fields of international or…
Legitimizing the Use of Force in Kosovo
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Liberal State Vs The National Soul
The story of the liberal agenda in the former Yugoslavia and other ‘societies in transition’ is a process involving a unity of opposites - of particularism and universalism; local nationalism and global liberalism. This essay suggests a set of tools with which to re-examine the work of foreign actors engaged in ‘rule of law’ and ‘civil society’ projects in countries such as the former Yugoslavia. The essay examines three orientations of the domin…
Gender in Service of Nation
Journal Article Gender in Service of Nation: Female Citizenship in Kosovar Society Get access JULIE MERTUS JULIE MERTUS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 3, Issue 2-3, Summer 1996, Pages 261–277, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/3.2-3.261 Published: 01 July 1996
Operation Allied Force
Journal Article Operation Allied Force: handmaiden of independent Kosovo Get access JULIE A. MERTUS JULIE A. MERTUS 1Professor and Co-Director of the MA program in Ethics, Peace and Global Affairs at American University, Washington DC Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 85, Issue 3, May 2009, Pages 461–476, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2346.2009.00808.x Published: 28 April 2009
Raising expectations? Civil society’s influence on human rights and US foreign policy
(2004). Raising expectations? Civil society’s influence on human rights and US foreign policy. Journal of Human Rights: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 21-40
The New U.S. Human Rights Policy
Journal Article The New U.S. Human Rights Policy: A Radical Departure Get access Julie Mertus Julie Mertus American University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Perspectives, Volume 4, Issue 4, November 2003, Pages 371–384, https://doi.org/10.1111/1528-3577.404003 Published: 15 October 2003
Grounds for Cautious Optimism
Humanitarian assistance organizations have made considerable strides in addressing gender issues. These efforts have fallen short, however, as organizations fail to adapt and apply a gender perspective consistently and to integrate local and international women into decision-making positions. This comment on Chris Corrin's report on humanitarian assistance in Kosova outlines the reasons for this partial failure, some of which are gender related a…
Gender in Service of Nation
Journal Article Gender in Service of Nation: Female Citizenship in Kosovar Society Get access JULIE MERTUS JULIE MERTUS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 3, Issue 2-3, Summer 1996, Pages 261–277, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/3.2-3.261 Published: 01 July 1996
The State and the Post-Cold War Refugee Regime
This article identifies the attributes of a shift from a Cold War refugee paradigm to a post-Cold War refugee paradigm and, within this shift, locates challenges to the statist paradigm. It asks, how has the changed role of the State in today's ‘globalized’ society affected the refugee regime? Conversely, how does today's refugee regime re-figure the role of the State? While other observers have commented on specific changes in the refugee regime…
Marschall v. Land Nordrhein-Westfalen
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Kosovo
Julie Mertus provides one of the first comprehensive looks at the explosive situation in Kosovo, where years of simmering tensions between Serbs and Albanians erupted in armed conflict in 1998. In a profound and detailed study of national identity and ethnic conflict, Mertus demonstrates how myths and truths can start a war. She shows how our identity as individuals and as members of groups is defined through the telling and remembering of storie…
The Liberal State Vs The National Soul
The story of the liberal agenda in the former Yugoslavia and other ‘societies in transition’ is a process involving a unity of opposites - of particularism and universalism; local nationalism and global liberalism. This essay suggests a set of tools with which to re-examine the work of foreign actors engaged in ‘rule of law’ and ‘civil society’ projects in countries such as the former Yugoslavia. The essay examines three orientations of the domin…
Beyond borders
Grounds for Cautious Optimism
Humanitarian assistance organizations have made considerable strides in addressing gender issues. These efforts have fallen short, however, as organizations fail to adapt and apply a gender perspective consistently and to integrate local and international women into decision-making positions. This comment on Chris Corrin's report on humanitarian assistance in Kosova outlines the reasons for this partial failure, some of which are gender related a…
The impact of intervention on local human rights culture
Legitimizing the Use of Force in Kosovo
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The New U.S. Human Rights Policy
Journal Article The New U.S. Human Rights Policy: A Radical Departure Get access Julie Mertus Julie Mertus American University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Perspectives, Volume 4, Issue 4, November 2003, Pages 371–384, https://doi.org/10.1111/1528-3577.404003 Published: 15 October 2003
Slobodan Milosevic and the Destruction of Yugoslavia
Raising expectations? Civil society’s influence on human rights and US foreign policy
(2004). Raising expectations? Civil society’s influence on human rights and US foreign policy. Journal of Human Rights: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 21-40
Shouting from the Bottom of the Well The Impact of International Trials for Wartime Rape on Women's Agency
This article critically examines the presumption that international adjudication of wartime rape cases advances the interests of survivors. It argues that just as national women's rights advocates recognize the futility of relying on court testimony alone for the production of a narrative that reflects women's experiences, promotes their agency and addresses their need for closure and healing, international women's rights advocates should explore…
Improving International Peacebuilding Efforts
Kosovo today is a house of cards. One false move and the house will fall down. Should the international troops--in particular the U.S. and British troops--pull out of Kosovo, it will collapse into communal violence. (1) The international security presence in Kosovo has generally succeeded in preventing the outbreak of another violent armed conflict but has accomplished little else beyond that. This is not surprising. Militaries can help prevent w…
Bait and switch
T he H uman R ights D imensions of W ar in I raq
This article considers the advantage of the adoption of a human rights framework in analysis of issues of pressing concern to peace studies, such as the use of force, the imposition of sanctions, and general neglect of nonviolent alternative responses to state violence. Although the invocation of a human rights framework may not provide definitive answers on the appropriate responses, the framework can provide a vocabulary and space within which …
Teaching Gender in International Relations
What are “feminisms” and how might teaching them contribute to IR pedagogy? For the field of international relations, feminisms contribute both a methodology and a deep normative critique. This piece argues that teaching gender analysis as critique is an indispensable pedagogical tool and outlines three means by which it might be mainstreamed into IR teaching
Power and Principle
Power and Principle: Human Rights Programming in International Organizations. By Joel E. Oestreich. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2007. 243p. $59.95 cloth, $29.95 paper. The power of human rights to shape the mandate and operations of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) is vividly illustrated in this timely study. Highly readable and original, it holds great appeal for both students and scholars in the fields of international or…
Findings from Focus Group Research on Public Perceptions of the Icty
Our research suggests continuing difficulties faced by the ICTY in establishing its legitimacy in the states over which it exercises oversight.Only some of these problems derive from pre-existing political orientations in support of the parties which organized and carried out violations of international humanitarian law.Other problems are more closely related to the ICTYʹs own procedures, to a lack of clarity regarding the purposes of the ICTY, a…
Human Rights and Human Insecurity
Counterterrorism campaigns that fail to recognize the critical connection between rights denial and terrorism are shortsighted. To fight terrorism without regard to human rights furthers terrorist goals by endorsing the same faulty thinking of the terrorists: the ends justify the means. Since declaring the “global war on terror” in 2001, not only has the Bush administration failed to place human rights promotion at the center of its counterterror…
Peace at Any Price
Surviving Field Research
1. Introduction: Surviving Research Julie Mertus 2. Demystifying field research John C. King Part 1: Ethics 3. Exceeding Scholarly Responsibility: IRBs and Political Constraints Judy Hemming 4. Methods and Ethics with Research Teams and NGOs: Comparing Experiences Across the Border of Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo Elizabeth Levy Paluck 5. Maintenance of Standards of Protection during Writeup and Publication Chandra Lekha Sriram Part 2: …
Just Politics
Journal Article Just Politics: Human Rights and the Foreign Policy of Great Powers by C. William Walldorf Get access Just Politics: Human Rights and the Foreign Policy of Great Powers by C. William Walldorf. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2008. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $21.95. Julie Mertus Julie Mertus American University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 124, Issue 3,…
Operation Allied Force
Journal Article Operation Allied Force: handmaiden of independent Kosovo Get access JULIE A. MERTUS JULIE A. MERTUS 1Professor and Co-Director of the MA program in Ethics, Peace and Global Affairs at American University, Washington DC Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 85, Issue 3, May 2009, Pages 461–476, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2346.2009.00808.x Published: 28 April 2009
Human Rights, State Compliance, and Social Change
National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) – human rights commissions and ombudsmen – have gained recognition as a possible missing link in the transmission and implementation of international human rights norms at the domestic level. They are also increasingly accepted as important participants in global and regional forums where international norms are produced. By collecting innovative work from experts spanning international law, political sc…
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