Human Rights Matters: Local Politics and National Human Rights Institutions (Stanford University Press, 2009).
The United Nations and Human Rights: A Guide for a New Era (Routledge, 2005, second edition 2009).
Bait and Switch: Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy (New York: Routledge, 2004, second edition 2007. Awarded “Best human rights book of the year” prize by the American Political Science Association, Human Rights Section.
War’s Offensive on Women: The Humanitarian Challenge in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan (West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press, 2000).
Kosovo: How Myths and Truths Started a War (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999).
Local Action/Global Change: Learning about the Human Rights of Women and Girls. Primary author, in collaboration with Mallika Dutt and Nancy Flowers. Paradigm, 2008.
Women’s Human Rights, Step-by-Step. With Dorothy Thomas (Human Rights Watch) and Marge Schuler (Women, Law and Development). (Washington, DC: Women, Law and Development and Human Rights Watch, 1997).
Open Wounds: Human Rights Abuses in Kosovo (with Vlatka Mihelic). (New York: Human Rights Watch, 1994).
Surviving Field Research: Working in Violent and Difficult Situations. Co-editor with Chandra Lekha Sriram, Olga Martin-Ortega, John King and Johanna Herman. (Routledge 2009; 2010).
Human Rights and Conflict. Co-editor with Jeff Helsing and contributor). (United States Institute of Peace, 2006).
The Suitcase: Refugees’ Voices from Bosnia and Croatia. Co-editor with Jasmina Tesanovic, Habiba Metikos and Rada Boric and contributor). (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997).