Online Exclusive • 12/18/2008 • Essay
On Goodhart's Global Democracy (A Critique)
In this critique of Michael Goodhart's "Human Rights and Global Democracy," Eva Erman argues that Goodhart has reconceptualized democracy and therefore does not offer a ...
Winter 2008 (22.4) • Feature
Human Rights and Global Democracy
This essay argues that human rights are a necessary condition for global democracy. Human rights constrain power, enable meaningful political agency, and support and promote ...
Fall 2008 (22.3) • Review
Briefly Noted
This section contains a round-up of recent notable books in the field of international affairs.
Fall 2008 (22.3) • Review
Realism Reconsidered: The Legacy of Hans J. Morgenthau in International Relations edited by Michael C. Williams
This timely book takes a critical look at the history of scholarship on Morgenthau's formulation of political realism, with an eye toward synthesizing his theories ...
Fall 2008 (22.3) • Review
Taking on the World's Repressive Regimes: The Ford Foundation's International Human Rights Policies and Practices by William Korey
William Korey has done a great service for both those who champion and follow the realization of human rights internationally and those who wish to ...
Fall 2008 (22.3) • Review
Defining Environmental Justice: Theories, Movements, and Nature by David Schlosberg
This volume is political theory at its best, providing an invaluable review of the contemporary literature, subverting traditional political categories and distinctions, and suggesting new ...
Fall 2008 (22.3) • Review
The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia: Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought by Cemil Aydin
Aydin challenges popular assumptions that non-Western ideological movements are always hostile to Western values, on the one hand, and that such movements emerge as a ...
Fall 2008 (22.3) • Review
Bounding Power: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village by Daniel Deudney
An important insight, with consequences for foreign policy and the practice of world politics, is that in the "global village" changing technology invites and even ...
Fall 2008 (22.3) • Feature
Keeping the Peace in Africa: Why "African" Solutions Are Not Enough
Instead of searching for "African solutions" which have proved problematic so far, policymakers should focus on developing effective solutions for the complex challenges raised by ...