Spring 2010 (24.1) • Feature
Public Accountability and the Public Sphere of International Governance
Steffek advocates a return to a conception of public accountability as accountability to the wider public. He investigates the prospects for this beyond the state, ...
Spring 2010 (24.1) • Feature
Democracy in a Pluralist Global Order: Corporate Power and Stakeholder Representation
Global democratization cannot be achieved by simply replicating familiar democratic institutions on a global scale. We must explore alternative institutional means for establishing democratic institutions ...
Spring 2010 (24.1) • Essay
Introduction [Full Text]
If global democratization is to advance beyond the current point, it is necessary to confront the practical challenge of institutional design: How might ideals of ...
Spring 2010 (24.1) • Essay
The Politics of Punishing Terrorists [Full Text]
Debates about trying and punishing terrorists reveal how the failure to construct a shared normative consensus in international criminal justice continues to bedevil the international ...
Online Exclusive • 03/3/2010 • Interview
Michael Doyle on Nonintervention and the Responsibility to Protect
What circumstances justify overriding sovereignty? Michael Doyle discusses the difficult questions surrounding nonintervention and the "unanimous revolution" of 2005, which led to the new norm known ...
Winter 2009 (23.4) • Review
Briefly Noted
This section contains a round-up of recent notable books in the field of international affairs.
Winter 2009 (23.4) • Review
Universal Human Rights in a World of Difference by Brooke A. Ackerly
In a book full of thought-provoking questions for theorists of human rights, Ackerly presents an "account of the normative legitimacy of human rights" that is ...
Winter 2009 (23.4) • Review
Ethics of Global Development: Agency, Capability, and Deliberative Democracy by David A. Crocker
This book is highly recommended to anyone who wants to know what development ethics has to offer, or who wants to engage with arguments on ...
Winter 2009 (23.4) • Review
Messy Morality: The Challenge of Politics by C. A. J. Coady
The principal and worthwhile contribution of this book is to resituate the debate about moral realism where it belongs, in terms of its pragmatic employment ...
Winter 2009 (23.4) • Review
The Religious in Responses to Mass Atrocity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Edited by Thomas Brudholm and Thomas Cushman
What is the contribution of religious discourse to a productive and reconciliatory response to mass atrocities? In this wide-ranging book, scholars address the philosophical, ethical, ...