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Winter 2007 (21.4) Review

The Globalizers: The IMF, the World Bank, and Their Borrowers by Ngaire Woods

Woods is an insightful and thoughtful authority on the Bretton Woods institutions. In this book she examines their activities and focuses on their engagements with ...

Winter 2007 (21.4) Review

All Politics Is Global: Explaining International Regulatory Regimes by Daniel Drezner

At a time when many international relations scholars are qualifying their premature predictions of the withering of the state, Daniel Drezner's new book makes a ...

Winter 2007 (21.4) Review

Promoting the Rule of Law Abroad: In Search of Knowledge, edited by Thomas Carothers

This book is an attempt to collect some of the little known about Rule-of-law (ROL) reform, and it does this creditably. Although the book's contributors ...

Winter 2007 (21.4) Review

Does Foreign Aid Really Work? by Roger C. Riddell & Foreign Aid: Diplomacy, Development, Domestic Politics by Carol Lancaster

These two recent works by Roger C. Riddell and Carol Lancaster display a sober understanding of aid challenges, present a balanced view of the context ...

Winter 2007 (21.4) Review Essay

The Rules of War [Full Text]

These three books show how the enduring principles of just war theory can be applied insightfully and fruitfully to even the latest kinds of conflict, ...

Winter 2007 (21.4) Feature

States of Risk: Should Cosmopolitans Favor Their Compatriots?

This article claims that it is not mutual benefit but mutual risk that grounds compatriot preference. Exposure to risks such as state abuse provide us ...

Winter 2007 (21.4) Feature

Human Rights Versus Emissions Rights: Climate Justice and the Equitable Distribution of Ecological Space

Arguing that issues of both emissions and subsistence should be comprehended within a single framework of justice, the proposal here is that this broader framework ...

Winter 2007 (21.4) Essay

American Religious NGOs in North Korea: A Paradoxical Relationship

Despite North Korea's antipathy to outside religious influence, it is primarily American NGOs with financial backing from religious organizations that have maintained development and exchange ...

Winter 2007 (21.4) Essay

Expanding Europe: The Ethics of EU-Turkey Relations

The possible future EU membership of Turkey has become one of the most hotly debated topics both in the EU and within Turkey itself. Underlying ...

Winter 2007 (21.4) Essay

Reading Tariq Ramadan: Political Liberalism, Islam, and "Overlapping Consensus"

"Much of the disagreement and controversy over Ramadan's significance arguably stems not from a disagreement over what he is on record as having asserted or ...