Dr. William H. Meyer
Professor of Political Science Emeritus
University of Delaware
402 Smith Hall
Newark, DE 19716
302-831-2355
Biography
​William H. Meyer, PhD (University of Iowa, 1984) joined the Department in 1984. He teaches courses on human rights, American foreign policy, and international relations. Meyer’s current research is for a forthcoming book, Human Rights and Global Governance: Case Studies at the Intersection of Ethics and Power Politics, including case studies on impunity vs. prosecution for dictators; indigenous rights; corporate social responsibility and the Alien Tort Claims Act; war crimes (in Iraq and Afghanistan) and just war theory; and labor rights and development in the Global South. Other chapters include a study of human rights treaties and competing models of global governance.
Recent Publications
"Testing Theories of Labor Rights and Development"
(forthcoming, 2015), Human Rights Quarterly, 37, 2.
"Indigenous Rights, Global Governance, and State
Sovereignty" (2012), Human Rights Review, 13, 3.
Security, Economics and Morality in
American Foreign Policy: Contemporary Issues in Historical Context
(2005), Prentice-Hall/Praeger.
"Human Rights, Global Governance and International Justice," POROI (June 2005).
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