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 ...
Summer 2008 (22.2) • Essay
The Resurgent Idea of World Government [Full Text]
The idea of world government is returning to the mainstream of scholarly thinking about international relations. Will the world-government movement become a potent political force, ...
Spring 2008 (22.1) • Review
Briefly Noted
This section contains a round-up of recent notable books in the field of international affairs.
Spring 2008 (22.1) • Review
Development as a Human Right: Legal, Political, and Economic Dimensions edited by Bard A. Andreassen and Stephen P. Marks
This book sets out to address the concepts of the right to development as well as the human rights-based approach to development. It includes contributions ...