Issue 28.1
Are “Coalitions of the Willing” Moral Agents?
We should agree with Erskine that group decision-making procedures are crucial to group agency, but need to be more permissive than she is about how “formal” these procedures need to be.
Spring 2014 (Issue 28.1)
This issue features a policy brief by Michael W. Doyle and Joseph E. Stiglitz on eliminating extreme inequality worldwide; essays by Amartya Sen on Buddha as a political thinker and George R. Lucas, Jr. on secrecy, privacy, and Edward Snowden; a special centennial roundtable on the international rule of law, with contributions from Ian Hurd, David Dyzenhaus, Christian Reus-Smit, Rosa Brooks, and Ruti Teitel; a feature article by Toni Erskine on “Coalitions of the Willing and Responsibilities to Protect”; and book reviews.
The Contemporary Relevance of Buddha
There is a basic humanity in the story of Buddha’s life that is easy to access and absorb in our own lives.
Eliminating Extreme Inequality: A Sustainable Development Goal, 2015–2030
Sustainable development cannot be achieved while ignoring extreme disparities. It is imperative that the post-MDG agenda focus on inequality.
The Politics and Ethics of Identity: In Search of Ourselves by Richard Ned Lebow
Lebow argues that nearly all the claims made by social theorists emphasizing the importance of identity are wrong.
Political Self-Sacrifice: Agency, Body and Emotion in International Relations by K. M. Fierke
This book brings what seem like senseless acts of desperation into focus as strategically intelligible and culturally meaningful techniques of resistance.
The International Rule of Law: Law and the Limit of Politics
The international rule of law provides political resources with which states and other actors legitimize and delegitimize contending policies. The atomistic nature of the interstate system means that the international version of the concept cannot be modeled on the domestic one, but also that it cannot be reduced simply to the obligation on states to comply with their legal commitments.
Hobbes on the International Rule of Law
The practice of state compliance with international law is not that easily demonstrated to be the product of legal constraint. Indeed, the problem goes beyond international law since the practice whereby a state generally complies with its own domestic law is hardly different in this respect.
