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Overview

David P. Forsythe is affiliated with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the United States. Their research spans the social sciences, with a focus on political science and international relations, sociology and political science, general health professions, history, and development. The main fields of study include social sciences, with subfields particularly emphasizing political science and international relations as well as sociology and political science.

The core topics of Forsythe's work involve global peace and security dynamics, international law and human rights, human rights and development, health and conflict studies, torture, ethics, and law, historical and contemporary political dynamics, and international relations and foreign policy.

Their recent scholarly contributions consist of the following publications:

  • Human Rights and Global Governance: Power Politics Meets International Justice. By William H. Meyer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. 280p. $69.95 cloth. (2021, Perspectives on Politics)
  • Lawmaking Under Pressure: International Humanitarian Law And Internal Armed Conflict by Giovanni Mantilla (2021, Human Rights Quarterly)
  • Human Dignity, the ICRC, and the Swiss Government: The Lessons of History Debated (2022, Human Rights Quarterly)
  • Perilous Medicine: The Struggle to Protect Health Care from the Violence of War by Leonard S. Rubenstein (2022, Human Rights Quarterly)
  • Index (2024, Cambridge University Press eBooks)

Forsythe's works have been predominantly published in the journal Human Rights Quarterly, with four contributions, followed by one publication in Perspectives on Politics and one in Cambridge University Press eBooks. The presence in these venues highlights a concentration on human rights and political analyses.

The researcher has authored a book titled The Contemporary International Committee of the Red Cross, published by Cambridge University Press in 2024.

Best Publications

  • The United Nations and Changing World Politics

    Thomas George Weiss;David P. Forsythe;Roger A. Coate;Kelly-Kate S. Pease

  • Human Rights in International Relations

    David P. Forsythe

  • The Humanitarians: The International Committee of the Red Cross

    David P. Forsythe

  • Democracy, War, and Covert Action:

    David P. Forsythe

  • The Humanitarians by David P. Forsythe

    David P. Forsythe

  • Legal Management of Internal War: The 1977 Protocol on Non-International Armed Conflicts

    David P. Forsythe

  • The internationalization of human rights

    David P. Forsythe

  • Human rights and world politics

    David P. Forsythe

  • The ICTY's impact on Serbia: Judicial romanticism meets network politics

    Patrice C. McMahon;David P. Forsythe

  • Human Rights in the World Community: Issues and Action

    David P. Forsythe;Richard Pierre Claude;Burns H. Weston

  • The US and International Criminal Justice

    David P. Forsythe

  • Humanitarian Politics: The International Committee of the Red Cross

    David P. Forsythe

  • Human Rights, Humanitarian Intervention, and World Politics

    Kelly Kate Pease;David P. Forsythe

  • Who Guards the Guardians: Third Parties and the Law of Armed Conflict

    David P. Forsythe

  • Human Rights and the International Committee of the Red Cross

    David P. Forsythe

  • Choices More Ethical Than Legal: The International Committee of the Red Cross and Human Rights

    David P. Forsythe

  • Congress and Human Rights in U. S. Foreign Policy: The Fate of General Legislation

    David P. Forsythe

  • The United Nations and Human Rights, 1945-1985

    David P. Forsythe

  • International Humanitarian Assistance: The Role of the Red Cross

    David P. Forsythe

  • Human Rights and Comparative Foreign Policy

    David P. Forsythe

  • Human Rights in International Relations: The foundations

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  • Encyclopedia of Human Rights

    David P. Forsythe

  • Human Rights in Cross-Cultural Perspectives: A Quest for Consensus.@@@Genocide Watch.@@@Human Rights and Statistics: Getting the Record Straight.

    David P. Forsythe;Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im;Helen Fein;Thomas B. Jabine

  • The International Dimensions of Human Rights@@@Human Rights and World Politics

    Richard Pierre Claude;Karel Vasak;Philip Alston;David P. Forsythe

  • War and Genocide: Organized Killing in a Modern Societyby Martin Shaw

    David P. Forsythe

  • U.S. Foreign Policy and Human Rights: Situating Obama

    David P. Forsythe

  • Human Rights and World Politics.

    Vojin Dimitrijevic;David P. Forsythe

  • Introduction: human rights in international relations

    David P. Forsythe

  • Human Rights and U. S. Foreign Policy: Congress Reconsidered

    Howard Tolley;David P. Forsythe

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas G. Weiss
Thomas G. Weiss The Graduate Center, CUNY
Susan Welch
Susan Welch Pennsylvania State University
Philip Alston
Philip Alston New York University

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