Micheline Ishay

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Micheline Ishay

Micheline Ishay is a political theorist known for her work in international relations and the history of human rights. She is Professor of International Studies and Human Rights at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver,^[1] where she served as Director of the International Human Rights Program (1992- 2010) and Executive Director of the Center on Rights Development (1993-2011). In 2008, she was named the University of Denver Distinguished Scholar, and she is an affiliate faculty member with the Center for Middle East Studies.^[2]

Career

Ishay received an Ph.D. in Political Science and International Studies from Rutgers University (1992). She was a fellow at the Center for Critical Culture and Contemporary Analysis, Rutgers University (1987-88); Assistant Professor at Hobart and William Smith College (1990-1992); Senior Fellow at the Center for Democracy Collaborative, University of Maryland (2004); Lady Davis Visiting Professor, Hebrew University (2006); and Visiting Professor, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (2010-2012, and Spring 2013). She was Resident Fellow at the Bellagio Center, Rockefeller Foundation, Italy, Fall 2015.^[3]

International Influence

Often interviewed in international press,^[4][5][6] Ishay frequently contributes to international forums in Europe^[7][8]and the Middle East^[9] and lectures on international issues in the U.S.^[10] In 2014, she was part of a "high level meeting of experts concerning the future of human rights and the international criminal justice system" in Siracusa, Italy.^[11] In 2010, she joined Jurgen Habermas, Claus Offe, and several other intellectuals in endorsing Antanas Mockus as the Green Party candidate for President in Colombia.^[12] Her book, The History of Human Rights, has been translated into Korean, Japanese, and Greek, and has been republished in India and Pakistan. The Human Rights Reader has been translated into Macedonian and Portuguese.

Books:

The Levant Express: The Arab Uprisings and the Future of the Middle East. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.

The Human Rights Reader: Major Political Essays, Speeches and Documents from Ancient Times to the Present. New York: Routledge Press, 2003. Second edition, 2008.

The History of Human Rights, from Ancient Times to the Globalization Era. Berkeley, CA: The University of California Press, 2004. Second edition, 2008.

The Nationalism Reader (edited with Omar Dahbour). Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press International, 1995. Reprinted by Prometheus Press, 1999.

Internationalism and Its Betrayal. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.

Articles:

“Human Rights in the Middle East” in Anthony Chase, edited, Routledge Handbook on Human Rights and the Middle East and North Africa (New York: Routledge, 2017).

“Violent Islamism Beyond Borders: Can Human Rights Prevail?” in Philosophy and Social Criticism, vol. 1, 12, 2016.

“Reclaiming Human Rights: Alternative Paths for an Israeli/Palestinian Peace, in John Ehrenberg and Yoav Peled, eds. Israel and Palestine: Alternative Perspectives on Statehood (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016).

“Human Rights and International Criminal Justice: Looking Back to Reclaim the Future,” in Cherif Bassiouni, ed. "Global Issues and their Impact on the Future of International Criminal Justice and Human Rights," (Cambridge: Intersentia).

“What Killed Egyptian Democracy? Lessons from a Failed Revolution." Response to Mohamed Fadel. Boston Review (Jan/Feb 2014).

“The Role of Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights,” in Handbook of International Human Rights Law, edited by Nigel Rodley and Sheeran Scott (UK: Francis Taylor, 2013).

“Promoting Human Rights in the Era of Globalization,” in Globalization and Politics, edited by Paul James (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2013).

“The Role of Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights,” in Handbook of International Human Rights Law, edited by Nigel Rodley and Sheeran Scott (UK: Francis Taylor, 2013).

"The Spring of Arab Nations? Paths toward Democratic Transition,” Philosophy and Social Criticism (March 2013).

"Globalization, Religion, and Nationalism in Israel and Palestine," in Between Terror and Tolerance, edited by Timothy D. Sisk (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2011).

Review of Kathryn Sikkin’s “The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions are Changing World Politics,” Washington Post, October 21, 2011.

“Critical History and The History of Human Rights,” in Rational Radicalism and Political Theory, edited by Michael Thompson (Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2011).

“The Sixtieth Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Exploring the Past, Anticipating the Future," Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems 19 (Spring 2010), 639-54.

“On the Occasion of The Sixtieth Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” Globalization and Human Rights, Brill Press, 2010.

“History, Theory and Human Rights,” The History of Human Rights Research” International Studies Association Compendium Project, Blackwell Publishing, 2009.

With David Goldfischer, “Belligerent Islamic Fundamentalism and the Legacy of European Fascism.” Journal of the Fletcher Forum, January 2008.

“Human Rights and the Enlightenment,” in Jennifer Greve, ed. Opposing Viewpoints: HUMAN RIGHTS, Thomas Gale, 2007.

Book Review of Adam Hochschild’s Bury The Chains, The Toronto Globe and Mail, February 2005.

“Promoting Human Rights in the Era of Globalization: The Changing Spaces of Struggle,” Globalizations, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2004.

“What are Human Rights? Six Historical Controversies,” Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2004.

“Human Rights in the Age of Empire,” in Stephen Bronner, ed. Planetary Politics: Human Rights, Terror and Global Society (Boulder, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield), 2004.

“Globalization and the New Realism of Human Rights,” in Manfred Steger ed., Rethinking Globalism (Rowman and Littlefied), 2004.

“The Shrinking Space of Human Rights Struggle and the Information Age,” in R. Waldbaum and Giovanna Franci, ed., Rights Deviancy, and Crime in a Transnational Era (Bologna: Cooperativa Libraria Editrice di Bologna), 2002.

With David Goldfischer, "Human Rights and Security: a False Dichotomy." New Political Science 35, 1996.

"The Historical Lessons of Human Rights: In Search of a New Approach," The European Legacy: Toward a New Paradigm, MIT Press, 1996.

“European Integration: the Legacy of the Enlightenment," Journal of the History of European Ideas 208, 1994.

Translation of "Marcuse: "From Ontology to Technology," in Stephen Bronner and Douglas Kellner, Politics, Culture and Society: Readings in Critical Theory, (N.Y: Routledge Press), 1990.