The Human Rights Case for War: Ethics, International Law and the Conflict in Iraq

by Thomas Cushman

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About the author

Thomas Cushman is a professor of sociology at Wellesley College and the founder and editor in chief of the Journal of Human Rights. He is the author of numerous books and articles on cultural dissidence in Russia, the war in Bosnia and Hercegovina, genocide and the sociology of intellectuals and war. He was a Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellow for 2002, a fellow of the Salzburg Seminar academic core session on International Law and Human Rights, chaired by Lloyd Cutler and Richard Goldstone, and a former visiting scholar at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University; he is currently a faculty associate at the Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University.