Category: Global Governance
Global Civics: Responsibilities and Rights in an Interdependent World Edited by Hakan Altinay
“Global Civics” is an attempt to ignite a dialogue about responsibilities and rights in an increasingly interdependent world, and should be of interest to anyone who finds the ethical dimension in globalization neglected.
![Arctic Stewardship: Maintaining Regional Resilience in an Era of Global Change [Full Text]](http://www.ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org/wp-content/themes/wp-clear/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://www.ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/4370261221_0f5599a63e1-150x150.jpg&w=150&h=150&zc=1 "Arctic Stewardship: Maintaining Regional Resilience in an Era of Global Change [Full Text]")
Arctic Stewardship: Maintaining Regional Resilience in an Era of Global Change [Full Text]
BY ORAN R. YOUNG What sorts of harms arising from changes in the Arctic are actionable, and who should take the actions required to respond to them?
“If Equity’s In, We’re Out”: Scope for Fairness in the Next Global Climate Agreement
This article sets out a conceptual framework for normative theorizing about fairness in international negotiations, with a particular emphasis on the role of feasibility considerations. We argue that a fair and feasible agreement will require reforming the current dichotomy between developed and developing countries’ commitments, coupled with a more principled approach to differentiating the level of national mitigation efforts.
Climate Justice and Capabilities: A Framework for Adaptation Policy
This article argues that most well-known approaches to climate justice have two important weaknesses, in that they fail to take advantage of two crucial developments: one, the identification of social and political misrecognition as the key underlying condition of the maldistribution of goods and risks; and two, the influential capabilities approach, which focuses on the specific range of basic needs and capabilities that human beings require to function.
Coaxing Climate Policy Leadership
In this article, I identify several conditions for and obstacles to effective international policy leadership with a view toward creating the conditions for that leadership to emerge, and suggest how such an overtly strategic analysis might address some key unexplored territory in climate ethics.
![The Peculiar Politics of Energy [Full Text]](http://www.ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org/wp-content/themes/wp-clear/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://www.ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/4949091312_eef94c70a4-150x150.jpg&w=150&h=150&zc=1 "The Peculiar Politics of Energy [Full Text]")
The Peculiar Politics of Energy [Full Text]
BY ANN FLORINI. The provision of energy services is a matter of basic distributional justice, which the world is failing to achieve.
Libya and Responsibility to Protect: Great-Power Permission or International Obligation?
The military attack on Libya in 2011 has rightly been interpreted as a significant milestone in the life of the Responsibility to Protect doctrine. It is the first UN military mission explicitly justified as a reaction to a government’s failure to live up its responsibility to protect its citizens. R2P activists have celebrated that it [...]
![Reimagining a Global Ethic [Full Text]](http://www.ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org/wp-content/themes/wp-clear/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://www.ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Global-Ethic_Jason_Samfield-150x150.jpg&w=150&h=150&zc=1 "Reimagining a Global Ethic [Full Text]")
Reimagining a Global Ethic [Full Text]
BY MICHAEL IGNATIEFF. What status do we give a global ethic in a pluralistic world that, as a matter of fact, is composed, ethically speaking, of competing moral universes?
