The book traces the rise and development of the human rights idea, from abolitionist movements to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the work of the UN Human Rights Commission and NGOs. It is an Iwanami Shinsho that reconsiders how to implement human rights within the realities of international politics.

A fresh look at human rights as both an ideal and a political reality.

War: How It Ends traces how wars are concluded, from the two World Wars to Vietnam and Iraq, in a Chuko Shinsho volume.

An empirical book for thinking about how wars come to an end.