Issue 27.2
Judging State-Sponsored Violence, Imagining Political Change by Bronwyn Leebaw
Leebaw argues that two competing frameworks have come to dominate the field of transitional justice. The first stresses the promotion of law, trials, and individual criminal responsibility in the aftermath of atrocity, while the second focuses on repairing society and healing the wounds of the past.
Sex & World Peace by Valerie M. Hudson, Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Mary Caprioli, and Chad F. Emmett
This book clearly and forcefully lays out the links between women’s security and international and domestic security.
Roundtable: Reflections on International Peace [Full Text]
FREE FOR A LIMITED TIME! Special Centennial Roundtable on international peace. Featuring David Hendrickson, Akira Iriye, Andrew Hurrell, and more.
Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order by G. John Ikenberry
REVIEW BY DANIEL DEUDNEY This book masterfully draws on history, advances international relations theory, and illuminates foreign policy choices.
Building Common Ground: Going Beyond the Liberal Conundrum
To stay viable as a political ideology, liberalism needs to show that it can remain true to its universal norms while being responsive to cultural complexities and differences.
Peace as a Transnational Theme
To consider war and peace purely in the context of international relations is insufficient, even anachronistic. What we need is less an international than a transnational idea of peace.
Concepts of Peace: From 1913 to the Present
The Great War and its imagery imprinted itself on the human imagination. In poetry and prose, photography, art, film, and other modes of expression, its influence on cultural memory and identity, on modern meaning and human sensibility, has been remarkable.
Viewing Peace Through Gender Lenses
Feminist theorizing of peace suggests a number of transformative observations. Feminist perspectives focus a critical lens on the meaning of peace, often making invisible violence visible; help to critically interrogate the role of the United States in furthering “peace” in the international arena; and make different theoretical and policy prescriptions than perspectives that omit gender from their analyses.