Issue 28.2
From Empire to Sovereignty—and Back?
JENS BARTLESON
How do empires and sovereign states relate, conceptually as well as historically? It is no coincidence that many historians of political thought are in the process of rewriting the history of sovereignty in light of its changing status.
Briefly Noted
Secret Reports on Nazi Germany: The Frankfurt School Contribution to the War Effort, Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse, and Otto Kirchheimer, Raffaele Laudani, eds. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2013), 704 pp., $45 cloth. Raffaele Laudani’s new edited volume, Secret Reports on Nazi Germany, is a collection of reports written during World War II by three […]
Fairness in Practice: A Social Contract for a Global Economy by Aaron James
This book brings political economy, international relations, and development economics into conversation with moral philosophy, making a critical contribution to the ethics of globalization.
Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency by Lea Ypi
In this book, Ypi proposes that theory begin with a specific political conflict, diagnose the failure of existing practices and norms to resolve it, and, in this light, develop better practices and norms.
Climate Matters: Ethics in a Warming World by John Broome
DALE JAMIESON
This book greatly contributes to our attempts to meet the challenge of climate change and to answer the difficult questions that it raises.
