The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics (The Norton Series in World Politics) Hardcover – September 26, 2011

Very interesting theory

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Had to read her book for a class about Transitional Justice. It was like nails on a chalkboard. It's sad because Sikkink actually makes really good points, but her droning on and on and clinical talking is so dry and bland that I would dread having to read a chapter each week. My assignments each week were to pin-point what her main point of each chapter was. Sikkink was so unclear about this that I wound up guessing a lot of the time. It's too bad because she started off strong many times and I was interested in what she had to say, but she spent so much time qualifying her sources or throwing dry statistics at the reader that it made me not want to hear what she had to say because in order to do so, I had to sif through so much useless and dull information. I did give her two stars because the information was there, but you do have to get past all of the dull droning. I would have given her another star for this book if she hadn't been so one-sided with her opinions. My other issue with her book is that she does not address the opposite points of view very well to support her point of view. Finally, she doesn't answer well what could be done in transitional societies to help them transition into a successful society after crimes against humanity were committed. Thankfully, my professor was able to explain a lot better than Sikkink.

Sikkink gives so much to think about as far as Bush and what will be of him and his decisions at Guantanamo Bay. The book overall is very interesting and she actually makes all the information she provides enjoyable. If you want to know anything and everything about how Human Rights began as a movement against individuals and states, this is it.

Wonderful

This is the only book that covers the modern era in human rights litigation on a global basis and does it with clarity and perspective. Just what I was looking for.

I read this book for a human rights law class offered through my university. This book is very poorly written. The author over uses personal anecdotes and writes in such a casual tone that the book reads like blog instead of academic literature. Content wise, while the author makes some interesting points, she fails to draw any kind of conclusion, rambles from chapter to chapter on the same few principles, and leaves the reader wondering how this is a final draft. Justice Cascade? More like a Justice Trickle. Skip it, this book isn't worth your time.

I am with the reviewer who read this for a graduate-level law class. If you have a passing, armchair interest in human rights, this might be a good book. But if you are undertaking serious study of this subject, choose something else. The author rambles needlessly, discusses her research trail too much rather than what the research revealed, and referenced far too often her personal friends. Waste of time! Wish I could return the kindle version I bought of this book!

Great book to understand transitional justice process from the constructivist perspective. Sikkink is one of the leading scholars on this subject.