Smith-Cannoy Insincere Commitments: Human Rights Treaties, Abusive States, and Citizen Activism

Heather Smith-Cannoy, assistant professor of international affairs, uses both quantitative and qualitative analysis to examine the factors contributing to commitment and compliance involving human rights treaties among post-Soviet states such as Slovakia, Hungary, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan.

Georgetown University Press, 2012. 192 pages. 

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