Winter 2009 (23.4) • Feature
Categorizing Groups, Categorizing States: Theorizing Minority Rights in a World of Deep Diversity
Kymlicka believes that it is Walzer's idiosyncratic approach to categorization—more than his controversial theory of justice-as-common-meanings—which explains his relatively marginal role in the ...
Winter 2009 (23.4) • Feature
A Few Words on Mill, Walzer, and Nonintervention
Comparing Mill's "Non-Intervention" and Walzer's "Just and Unjust Wars" (1977) links two classic statements on just wars of intervention. Doyle concludes that interventionist arguments should go ...
Winter 2009 (23.4) • Feature
The Moral Standing of States Revisited
"The Moral Standing of States" is the title of an essay Michael Walzer wrote in response to four critics of the theory of nonintervention defended ...
Winter 2009 (23.4) • Internal
Introduction [Full Text]
This symposium is comprised of three key articles from a 2008 conference to honor Michael Walzer. Each article discusses one of the most fundamental aspects of ...
Fall 2009 (23.3) • Review
Briefly Noted
This section contains a round-up of recent notable books in the field of international affairs.
Fall 2009 (23.3) • Review
National Responsibility and Global Justice by David Miller
Miller builds on his seminal work on national identity and special duties to co-nationals to carve out a position on such issues as global poverty ...
Fall 2009 (23.3) • Review
The Rise of the Global Imaginary: Political Ideologies from the French Revolution to the Global War on Terror by Manfred B. Steger
Faced with the political, economic, and social challenges of a globalized planet, are we bereft of any coherent political guideposts or do we still possess ...
Fall 2009 (23.3) • Review
What's Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix It by Thomas G. Weiss
Drawing on his own UN experience and studying it from outside, Weiss clears away a lot of the debris of superficial critiques to uncover the ...
Fall 2009 (23.3) • Review
On Torture Edited by Thomas C. Hilde
This edited collection is an excellent addition to the literature on the torture policy of the Bush administration during its war on terror. The contributors ...