Spring 2010 (24.1) • Review
The Global Commonwealth of Citizens: Toward Cosmopolitan Democracy by Daniele Archibugi
This book provides not only an exhaustive treatment of the benefits and drawbacks of cosmopolitan democracy, but also the most detailed statement to date of ...
Spring 2010 (24.1) • Review Essay
Terrorism, Resistance, and the Idea of "Unlawful Combatancy"
When faced with security threats from terrorism and other forms of nonstate political violence, how should liberal-democratic states respond? Finlay discusses books by Tamar Meisels, ...
Spring 2010 (24.1) • Feature
Deliberation and Global Criminal Justice: Juries in the International Criminal Court
Juries could bolster the ICC's legitimacy by promoting public trust, increasing procedural fairness, foregrounding deliberative reasoning, and embodying democratic values. ICC juries would present novel ...
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 ...