Summer 2007 (21.2) • Feature
Uganda's Civil War and the Politics of ICC Intervention
The International Criminal Court's intervention into the ongoing civil war in northern Uganda evoked a chorus of confident predictions as to its capacity to bring ...
Summer 2007 (21.2) • Essay
The Human Rights Council: A New Era in UN Human Rights Work? [Full Text]
Kofi Annan did more than any UN secretary-general before him to stress the close link between human rights and peace and security. With the creation ...
Summer 2007 (21.2) • Internal
Editors' Note [Full Text]
Sometimes change is revolutionary, but more often it tends to be evolutionary. That is why many readers might not even notice that there are a ...
Summer 2007 (21.2) • Review
The Good Fight: Why Liberals--and Only Liberals--Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again by Peter Beinart
Peter Beinart's new book offers the Democratic Party a "new liberalism," a vision he bases on the party's history of moral leadership and success in ...
Summer 2007 (21.2) • Review
A Turn to Empire: The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France by Jennifer Pitts
Jennifer Pitts asserts that imperialism was not essential to the liberal project, as is so often alleged by its critics, most recently and systematically by ...
Summer 2007 (21.2) • Review
Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights by Carol C. Gould
Although the focus of "Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights" is practical, Gould does not shy away from hard theoretical questions, such as the relentless debate ...
Summer 2007 (21.2) • Review
Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues by Catharine A. MacKinnon
Catharine MacKinnon's fundamental claim is that the violence and abuse routinely inflicted on women by men is not treated with the same seriousness accorded to ...
Summer 2007 (21.2) • Review
Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny by Amartya Sen and Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers by Kwame Anthony Appiah
These two books are the inaugural releases in Norton's Issues of Our Time series, but they are linked by much more than this fact. Each ...
Spring 2007 (21.1) • Feature
Argentina, the Church, and the Debt
The Argentine debt crisis of 2001–2002 and its aftermath are examined in the light of the moral framework of Catholic social teaching on the debt problems ...
Spring 2007 (21.1) • Feature
Making the Case for Jubilee: The Catholic Church and the Poor-Country Debt Movement
Since the late 1970s, an increasingly global coalition of churches and nongovernmental organizations has pressed for reduction if not outright cancellation of the foreign debt ...