CURRENT ISSUE
Spring 2022 (36.1)
The editors of Ethics & International Affairs are pleased to present the Spring 2022 issue of the journal! The highlight of this issue is a roundtable organized by Jesse Kirkpatrick on moral injury, trauma, and war, featuring contributions by Jesse Kirkpatrick; Daniel Rothenberg; and David Wood. Additionally, the issue includes a feature article by Yuna Han on the normative questions raised by universal jurisdiction, and a feature article by Megan Price on Sri Lanka’s challenge to the standing of international humanitarian law. The issue also contains a review essay by Deen Chatterjee on Amartya Sen’s memoir Home in the World, and book reviews by Mary Dudziak, Michael Struett, and James Ketterer.
Book Reviews
Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War
The concept of “forever war” has moved from the margins to the mainstream in recent years. In his important new book Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War, Samuel Moyn puts the law of armed conflict at the center of the forever war.
The “Third” United Nations: How a Knowledge Ecology Helps the UN Think
The United Nations is unique in its capacity to convene global discourse, particularly conversations to address global problems that humanity must face together. If the United Nations is to “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, pandemics, and climate change,” as Tatiana Carayannis and Thomas G. Weiss put it in The “Third” United Nations, those conversations must succeed at identifying viable global solutions, and solutions that reflect reasonable consideration of perspectives of people all over the earth.
Delta Democracy: Pathways to Incremental Civic Revolution in Egypt and Beyond
Delta Democracy makes important contributions to scholarly literature and to our understanding of international development and foreign policy concerning the complex role of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Egypt and elsewhere.
A Magna Carta for Children? Rethinking Children’s Rights
Children’s rights present a unique challenge. On the one hand, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history, with every country having ratified it except the United States. On the other hand, more than thirty years after the CRC was adopted, children’s rights continue to make many adults, from policymakers to parents, uneasy.
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Welcome to our roundup of news and current events related to ethics and international affairs! Here’s some of what we’ve been reading this past month.
What We’ve Been Reading
Welcome to our roundup of news and current events related to ethics and international affairs! Here’s some of what we’ve been reading this past month.
EIA Summer 2022 Remote Editorial Internship
Ethics & International Affairs, the journal of the Carnegie Council, seeks a remote volunteer intern for the summer.