Fall 2019 (33.3) • Review
Negotiating Peace: A Guide to the Practice, Politics, and Law of International Mediation
Sir Winston Churchill is often credited with the phrase “To jaw-jaw is better than to war-war.” Over the last twenty years, the desire to be ...
Fall 2019 (33.3) • Review
Injustice: Political Theory for the Real World
In Injustice: Political Theory for the Real World, Michael Goodhart claims that the dominant paradigm's quest for “spotless” justice blinds scholars to the lived injustices ...
Fall 2019 (33.3) • Review
Humanitarian Action and Ethics
This edited volume from Ayesha Ahmad and James Smith offers an expansive tour across the difficult landscape of ethical conundrums in humanitarian action, traversing issues ...
Fall 2019 (33.3) • Review
Briefly Noted
In his latest book, Marcus Schulzke analyzes the ethical traditions of three national militaries—the U.S. Army, the British Army and Royal Marine Commandos, ...
Fall 2019 (33.3) • Essay
A Human Rights Approach to Conflict Resolution
The role of human rights abuses in the causes, dynamics, and consequences of conflict illustrate the importance of a human rights approach to conflict resolution: ...
Online Exclusive • 09/6/2019 • Blog
Transactionalism and U.S. Foreign Aid
One of the critical questions we have been grappling with since Donald Trump's election is the extent to which a transactional calculus would come to ...
Online Exclusive • 09/3/2019 • Blog
What is the Status Quo for the Climate?
I have been reading an interesting book by Sarah Parcak called Archaeology from Space: How The Future Shapes our Past.
Online Exclusive • 08/21/2019 • Blog
The Ethics of Trade with China and Authoritarian Upgrading
In an earlier posting, I discussed some of the ethical frameworks for assessing the trade war with China, themes that were expanded upon in a ...
Online Exclusive • 08/19/2019 • Blog
Ethical Considerations in a Trade War with China
Are there ethical considerations that need to be factored in as part of assessing the merits of a "trade war" with the People's Republic of ...