Online Exclusive • 05/31/2013 • Feature
International Peace: One Hundred Years On
Americans have registered one set of lessons too well—those deriving from the seventy-five year war against German imperialism and Soviet communism. They have forgotten, ...
Summer 2013 (27.2) • Feature
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 ...
Summer 2013 (27.2) • Feature
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 ...
Summer 2013 (27.2) • Feature
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 ...
Summer 2013 (27.2) • Review
Briefly Noted
This section contains a round-up of recent notable books in the field of international affairs.
Summer 2013 (27.2) • Feature
Power Transitions, Global Justice, and the Virtues of Pluralism
Today’s optimists stress the degree to which globalization appears much more firmly institutionalized than it was a hundred years ago, the rather striking success ...
Summer 2013 (27.2) • Response
A Response to Martti Koskenniemi’s Review of Humanity’s Law
In my book, I set out not to praise humanity law but to understand the phenomenon that Koskenniemi admits is real—that is, the ascendancy ...
Summer 2013 (27.2) • Review Essay
The Arab Spring Two Years On: Reflections on Dignity, Democracy, and Devotion
The demise of long-standing dictators has shaken the foundations of authoritarianism in the Middle East and North Africa.
Fall 2010 (24.3) • Review Essay
On Amartya Sen and The Idea of Justice [Full Text]
The Idea of Justice summarizes and extends many of the themes Amartya Sen has been engaged with for the last quarter century.
Online Exclusive • 04/15/2013 • Blog
The Resource Curse and the Separation of Powers
The resource curse is a complex problem that affects a great many. It has rightly occupied an important place in debates about global justice. Creating ...