Fall 2008 (22.3) • Feature
Horizontal Accountability in Intergovernmental Organizations
Many intergovernmental organizations have recently established offices of internal oversight. Yet scandals have revealed serious flaws in the design of these institutions. This study argues ...
Fall 2008 (22.3) • Essay
Business and Human Rights in Conflict
Can current policy and legal responses make businesses part of the solution rather than part of the problem? And can companies be held accountable—socially, ...
Fall 2008 (22.3) • Essay
Reuniting Ethics and Social Science: The Oxford Handbook of International Relations
The quality of our theoretical argumentation, the diversity and insights of our methods, and our general level of understanding are markedly better than a generation ...
Fall 2008 (22.3) • Response
An Exchange: The Morality of Immigration [Full Text]
Writing in EIA 22, no. 1, Mathias Risse presented a novel way to think about the problem of immigration in the context of global justice, adopting the ...
Summer 2008 (22.2) • Review
Briefly Noted
This section contains a round-up of recent notable books in the field of international affairs.
Summer 2008 (22.2) • Review
The One and the Many: Reading Isaiah Berlin edited by George Crowder and Henry Hardy
This is a collection of 13 essays, all but two of which are newly commissioned, covering Berlin's multifaceted oeuvre as much as a single book can. ...
Summer 2008 (22.2) • Review
A Climate of Injustice: Global Inequality, North-South Politics, and Climate Policy by J. Timmons Roberts and Bradley C. Parks
Part of what makes Roberts and Parks's argument unusual and original is not the end point—that ultimately we will all need to radically cut ...
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 ...