Michael Ignatieff

Michael Ignatieff
Michael Ignatieff by David Levine

Michael Ignatieff is the Carr Professor and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. His latest book is Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry. (April 2003)

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November 4, 2004: The Election and America's Future

April 10, 2003: Americans Abroad*

Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World after September 11 by Thomas L. Friedman

Being America: Liberty, Commerce, and Violence in an American World by Jedediah Purdy

December 19, 2002: Mission Possible?*

A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis by David Rieff

June 13, 2002: The Rights Stuff*

The Courage of Strangers: Coming of Age with the Human Rights Movement by Jeri Laber, with a preface by Václav Havel

Human Rights and the End of Empire: Britain and the Genesis of the European Convention by A.W. Brian Simpson

In Our Own Best Interest: How Defending Human Rights Benefits Us All by William F. Schulz, with a foreword by Mary Robinson

February 28, 2002: Barbarians at the Gate?*

Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos by Robert D. Kaplan

July 19, 2001: Chains of Command*

Waging Modern War: Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Future of Combat by Wesley K. Clark

March 29, 2001: Bush's First Strike

Saddam's Bombmaker: The Terrifying Inside Story of the Iraqi Nuclear and Biological Weapons Agenda Khidhir Hamza, with Jeff Stein

July 20, 2000: The New American Way of War

Lifting the Fog of War by Admiral Bill Owens, with Ed Offley

Private Warriors by Ken Silverstein

Fire in the East: The Rise of Asian Military Power and the Second Nuclear Age by Paul Bracken

Total War 2006: The Future History of Global Conflict by Simon Pearson

Gulf War Air Power Survey by Eliot Cohen. others.

Iraq and the War of Sanctions: Conventional Threats and Weapons of Mass Destruction by Anthony H. Cordesman

May 11, 2000: The 'Anglosphere' (letter)

March 23, 2000: The Man Who Was Right*

Reflections on a Ravaged Century by Robert Conquest

May 20, 1999: Human Rights: The Midlife Crisis*

The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen by Paul Gordon Lauren

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Fifty Years and Beyond edited by Yael Danieli, by Elsa Stamatopoulou, by Clarence J. Dias, foreword by Kofi Annan, epilogue by Mary Robinson

NGOs and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: A Curious Grapevine by William Korey

The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights edited by Joanne R. Bauer, by Daniel A. Bell

Religion and Human Rights: Competing Claims? edited by Carrie Gustafson, by Peter Juviler

In the Lion's Den: A Shocking Account of Persecution and Martyrdom of Christians Today and How We Should Respond by Nina Shea, foreword by Chuck Colson, afterword by Ravi Zacharius

United States of America: Rights for All by Amnesty International USA

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Origins, Drafting and Intent by Johannes Morsink

Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History After Genocide and Mass Violence by Martha Minow

War Crimes: Brutality, Genocide, Terror, and the Struggle for Justice by Aryeh Neier

March 4, 1999: Prophet in the Ruins*

Fall of the New Class: A History of Communism's Self-Destruction by Milovan Djilas, edited by Vasilije Kalezic, Translated from the Serbo-Croatian by John Loud

December 18, 1997: On Isaiah Berlin (1909 - 1997)*

October 9, 1997: The Gods of War*

Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War by Barbara Ehrenreich

The Rosy Future of War by Philippe Delmas

Postmodern War: The New Politics of Conflict by Chris Hables Gray

June 12, 1997: In the Center of the Earthquake*

Tangled Loyalties: The Life and Times of Ilya Ehrenburg by Joshua Rubenstein

Les Surprises de la Loubianka: nouvelles découvertes dans les archives littéraires du KGB by Vitaly Shentalinsky, French translation by Galia Ackerman, by Pierre Lorrain

October 3, 1996: Whispers from the Abyss*

The Mandelstam and "Der Nister" Files: An Introduction to Stalin-era Prison and Labor Camp Records by Peter B. Maggs

Arrested Voices: Resurrecting the Disappeared Writers of the Soviet Regime by Vitaly Shentalinsky, translated by John Crowfoot, Introduction by Robert Conquest

Intimacy and Terror: Soviet Diaries of the 1930s edited by Véronique Garros, by Natalia Korenevskaya, by Thomas Lahusen, translated by Carol A. Flath

April 18, 1996: 'Missed Chance in Bosnia' (letter)

February 29, 1996: The Missed Chance in Bosnia*

Balkan Odyssey by David Owen

The Dayton Peace Agreement on Bosnia Hercegovina US Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, November 30, 1995

The Black Book of Bosnia: The Consequences of Appeasement edited by Nader Mousavizadeh

With No Peace to Keep: United Nations Peacekeeping and the War in the Former Yugoslavia 4DL. Include £4.50 for postage.) edited by Ben Cohen, edited by George Stamkoski

November 2, 1995: The Politics of Self-Destruction*

Tito and the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia by Richard West

The Death of Yugoslavia by Laura Silber, by Allan Little

Genocide in Bosnia: The Policy of "Ethnic Cleansing" by Norman Cigar

March 23, 1995: The Art of Witness*

A Year of the Hunter by Czeslaw Milosz, translated by Madeline G. Levine

Facing the River: New Poems by Czeslaw Milosz. Translated by the author and Robert Hass

April 21, 1994: Homage to Bosnia*

Bosnia: A Short History by Noel Malcolm

Sarajevo: Survival Guide by the FAMA Collective, Sarajevo, 1993

Why Bosnia? Writings on the Balkan War edited by Rabia Ali, edited by Lawrence Lifschultz

Sarajevo: A War Journal by Zlatko Dizdarević, translated by Anselm Hollo, edited by Ammiel Alcalay

Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo by Zlata Filipović

May 13, 1993: The Balkan Tragedy*

The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War by Misha Glenny

The Destruction of Yugoslavia: Tracking the Break-up, 1980–92 by Branka Magaš

The Balkan Express: Fragments from the Other Side of War by Slavenka Drakulić

November 21, 1991: In the New Republics*

February 15, 1990: The Old Country*

Danube by Claudio Magris, translated by Patrick Creagh

The Snows of Yesteryear: Portraits for an Autobiography by Gregor von Rezzori, translated by H. F. Broch de Rothermann

June 29, 1989: The Rise and Fall of Vienna's Jews*

The Jews of Vienna in the Age of Franz Joseph by Robert S. Wistrich

Vienna and Its Jews: The Tragedy of Success, 1880s–1980s by George E. Berkley

A History of Habsburg Jews, 1670–1918 by William O. McCagg Jr.

Judentum in Wien: Sammlung Max Berger November 12, 1987–June 5, 1988 catalog of the exhibition at the Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien,

The Rise of Political Anti-Semitism in Germany and Austria (revised edition) Peter Pulzer

The Viennese: Splendor, Twilight and Exile by Paul Hofmann

Vienna and the Jews, 1867–1938: A Cultural History by Steven Beller

March 2, 1989: On Bruce Chatwin*

January 19, 1989: Heirs to Freud (letter)

November 24, 1988: Freud's Cordelia*

Anna Freud: A Biography by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

My Three Mothers and Other Passions by Sophie Freud

January 15, 1987: The Jewish Freud (letter)

June 12, 1986: The Jewish Freud*

Freud's Discovery of Psychoanalysis: The Politics of Hysteria by William J. McGrath

Freud and His Father by Marianne Krull

Books by Michael Ignatieff

Passages: Welcome Home to Canada (2002)
Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry (2001)
Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond (2000)
Berlin in Autumn: The Philosopher in Old Age (1999)
Isaiah Berlin: A Life (1998)
The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience (1998)
Blood and Belonging: Journeys Into the New Nationalism (1994)
Scar Tissue (1993)
Asya (1991)
The Russian Album (1987)
The Needs of Strangers (1984)
A Just Measure of Pain: The Penitentiary in the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850 (1978)