Books by Alison Brysk

Drawing on the author's extensive experience as a leading human rights scholar and activist, The Future of Human Rights offers a broad and authoritative guide to the big questions in global human rights governance today.

This work examines the unexpected impact of the Indian rights movement on world politics, from reforming the United Nations to evicting oil companies. It argues that marginalized people have responded to globalization with new forms of identity politics that reconstruct power relations.

Human Rights and Private Wrongs breaks new ground by considering a series of fascinating issues that are normally ignored by human rights specialists because they're too "private" to consider as policy issues.