Summer 2008 (22.2) • Review
Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right: Who Owes What to the Very Poor? edited by Thomas Pogge
All the contributors to this impressive volume agree that freedom from poverty is a basic human right, but they differ in how best to argue ...
Summer 2008 (22.2) • Review
Bioethics and Armed Conflict: Moral Dilemmas of Medicine and War by Michael L. Gross
This book is important as an analysis of some of the least-discussed dilemmas related to warfare. But its value extends beyond its novel subject matter ...
Summer 2008 (22.2) • Review
International Legitimacy and World Society by Ian Clark
Clark seems caught not just between two concepts—international and world society—but between his two goals: the historical goal of recovering the politics of ...
Summer 2008 (22.2) • Review Essay
Expanding the Boundaries of Transitional Justice
This essay examines "Justice as Prevention: Vetting Public Employees in Transitional Societies," Alexander Mayer-Rieckh and Pablo de Greiff eds., and "What Happened to the Women? ...
Summer 2008 (22.2) • Essay
Immigration Policy and "Immanent Critique"
Carens's use of 'immanent critique' to ground his moral prescriptions on the not yet realized normative purposes of the immigration policies of liberal democratic states ...
Summer 2008 (22.2) • Essay
Migrants and Work-related Rights
Carens's discussion of the work-related rights of irregular migrants fails to consider the differentiated employment rights of legal temporary migrants, permanent residents, and citizens.
Summer 2008 (22.2) • Essay
Irregular Migrants: An Alternative Perspective
While accepting Carens's view that irregular migrants can rightfully claim from the state protection of human rights, Miller disagrees that such migrants can claim rights ...
Summer 2008 (22.2) • Essay
The Elusive Rights of an Invisible Population
Carens's suggestion for a so-called firewall protecting irregular migrants' basic rights creates serious problems of coherence and feasibility for the legal and political systems of ...
Summer 2008 (22.2) • Feature
The Rights of Irregular Migrants
Irregular migrants are morally entitled to a wide range of legal rights, including basic human and civil rights. Therefore, states ought to create a firewall ...
Summer 2008 (22.2) • Feature
Just War Theory and the Privatization of Military Force
Private military companies are taking over a growing number of roles traditionally performed by the regular military. This article uses the framework of just war ...