Contributors
- Contributors
Korwa G. Adar is Chairman of the UASU and former Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Nairobi, Kenya. He currently teaches International Relations in the International Studies Unit, Politics Department, Rhodes University, South Africa. His articles have appeared in a number of scholarly journals. His recent books include Kenyan Foreign Policy Behavior Towards Somalia, 1963–1983 (Lanham: University Press of America, 1994) and a co-edited book, The United States and Africa: From Independence to the End of the Cold War (Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers Ltd., 1995) with Macharia Munene and J.D. Olewe-Nyunya. He is currently working on a book project entitled Inside Africa: US Congress at Paradigmatic Crossroads. The author is indebted to Kilemi Mwiria, Secretary General, UASU, and former Senior Research Fellow, Kenyatta University; Gitobu Imanyara, advocate and Editor-in-Chief, Nairobi Law Monthly; Kathurima M’Inoti, Chairman, International Commission of Jurists, Kenya Section, and human right advocate with Kamau Kuria and Kiraitu Advocates; and Maina Kiai, Executive Director, Kenyan Human Rights Commission. The author remains solely responsible for the views expressed herein and their shortcomings.
Melissa Bolyard is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at SUNY-Stony Brook. Her research focuses on work and gender inequality, in the United States and cross-nationally. Her dissertation is a longitudinal analysis of gender segregation and occupational choice in the US.
Todd Howland currently serves as the head of the Legal and Institutional Building Unit of the Human Rights Division of the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Angola (MONUA). Previously, he was a visiting fellow at the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School, the head of the Legal and Human Rights Promotion Unit of the UN Human Rights Field Operation in Rwanda, International Legal Advisor for the Office of the Special Prosecutor of the Transitional Government of Ethiopia (whose primary purpose was to prosecute Mengistu-era human rights violators), and served with a number of human rights NGOs, such as the Los Angeles-based El Rescate.
Anna Ippolito is a doctoral student at the Department of Sociology at SUNY-Stony Brook. Her research interests include civil society, democracy, and the recent transformations in Eastern Europe.
Chris Jochnick is Legal Director, Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR). This article is based on the experience and ideas of the directors and staff of CESR, developed over four years of work in the field.
Peter Jones is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Newcastle, United Kingdom. He has written on a variety of issues in contemporary political philosophy, including the nature of liberalism, the foundations of democracy, welfare rights, freedom of belief and expression, the Rushdie Affair, and multiculturalism. He is the author of Rights (1994) and is currently working on strategies for dealing with diversities of belief and value, both nationally and globally. Part of the work for this article was conducted during the author’s tenure of a Nuffield Foundation Social Sciences Research Fellowship; he wishes to record his gratitude to the Foundation for its support.
William H. Meyer is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. His recent publications include Human Rights and International Political Economy in Third World Nations: Multinational Corporations, Foreign Aid, and Repression (Praeger, 1998). He has also published in the journals Human Rights Quarterly (1996) and The International Journal on Group Rights (1996), among others.
Joel E. Oestreich is a graduate student in political science at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. His dissertation will examine the moral status and obligations of international financial institutions. He received his B.A. from Cornell University and his M.Phil. from the University of Oxford.
Robert L. Ostergard, Jr. is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Global Cultural Studies located at the State University of New York, Binghamton. His recent dissertation focuses on the evolution of the US global policy on intellectual property rights and its implications for the developing world.
Jackie Smith is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She is co-editor of Transnational Social Movements and Global Politics: Solidarity Beyond the State (1997, Syracuse University Press...
