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Alison Brysk

Professor, Political Science
School of Social Sciences

Ph.D., Stanford University, 1990, Political Science

Phone: (949) 824-1582
Email: abrysk@uci.edu

University of California
2221 Social Sciences Plaza B
Mail Code: 5100
Irvine, CA 92697

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Research
Interests
human rights, globalization, social movements/civil society, Latin American politics
   
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Academic
Distinctions
2008-2008 Distinguished Mid-Career Research Award
   
Research
Abstract
My current research project, "GLOBAL GOOD SAMARITANS: POSITIVE HUMAN RIGHTS FOREIGN POLICY," examines the unusual experiences of global good citizenship in Costa Rica, Sweden, Canada, the Netherlands, Japan, and South Africa.
   
Publications (co-editor), NATIONAL INSECURITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS: DEMOCRACIES DEBATE COUNTER-TERROR, University of California Press, 2007.
   
  THE POLITICS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN ARGENTINA, Stanford University Press, 1994

FROM TRIBAL VILLAGE TO GLOBAL VILLAGE: INDIAN RIGHTS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS IN LATIN AMERICA, Stanford University Press, 2000

(ed.) GLOBALIZATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS, University of California Press, 2002

(ed.) PEOPLE OUT OF PLACE, Routledge Press, 2004

HUMAN RIGHTS AND PRIVATE WRONGS, Routledge Press, 2005
   
Grant 2007 Fulbright Visiting Chair in Global Governance, CIGI, Canada
   
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Last updated 01/02/2008