“david chandler”

In the 1990s, interventionist policies challenged the rights of individual states to self-governance. Today, non-Western states are more likely to be feted by international institutions offering programs of poverty-reduction, democratization and good governance. States without the right to self-gove... More

Leading physical chemist David Chandler takes a new approach to statistical mechanics to provide the only introductory-level work on the modern topics of renormalization group theory, Monte Carlo simulations, time correlation functions, and liquid structure. The author provides compact summaries of ... More

"Rethinking Human Rights" brings together a team of authors--from fields as diverse as political theory, peace studies, international law, and media studies--concerned with a new international agenda of human rights promotion. The collection presents an original and tightly argued critique of curren... More

Ten years on from the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement on November 1995, the legacy of the Bosnian war still shapes every aspect of the political, social and economic environment of the tiny state. This is highlighted by the fact that Bosnia is still under international control, with the Office... More

"The Khmer Rouge terror constitutes one of the most horrific instances of mass murder in the twentieth century, and Chandler has immersed himself in a unique and largely unexplored collection of primary sources from hell. This will be a very important and enduring work. . . . Moreover, no scholar is... More

The Dayton Accords brought the Bosnian war to an end in November 1995, establishing a detailed framework for the reconstitution of the Bosnian state and its consolidation through a process of democratization. In Bosnia David Chandler makes the first in-depth critical analysis of the policies and imp... More