Winter 2018 (32.4) • Essay
What if Cyberspace Were for Fighting?
This essay explores the ethical and legal implications of prioritizing cyberspace as a warfighting domain. The authors envision a world where states take on a ...
Winter 2018 (32.4) • Essay
Ethical Dilemmas in Cyberspace
This final roundtable essay steps back to highlight three broad issues that cut across the other contributions and raise ethical concerns about our activity online. ...
Winter 2018 (32.4) • Feature
Reforming the Security Council through a Code of Conduct: A Sisyphean Task?
In this feature, Bolarinwa Adediran disputes the utility of a code of conduct to regulate the exercise of the veto at the UN Security Council ...
Winter 2018 (32.4) • Review Essay
How Not to Do Things with International Law
In this review essay, Anne Peters considers Ian Hurd’s recent book How to Do Things with International Law. Peters argues that, although the book ...
Winter 2018 (32.4) • Review Essay
Human Rights Under Attack: What Comes Next?
Micheline Ishay laments the recent onslaught against the human rights movement even from professed supporters, taking Samuel Moyn’s recent book Not Enough as indicative ...
Winter 2018 (32.4) • Review
Just Responsibility: A Human Rights Theory of Global Justice, by Brooke A. Ackerly
This book offers a clear argument for assuming political responsibility toward basic structures of injustice in the developing world.
Winter 2018 (32.4) • Review
Return of the Barbarians: Confronting Non-State Actors from Ancient Rome to the Present, by Jakub J. Grygiel
In this book, Jakub J. Grygiel provocatively shows how strategic actors beyond nation-states are making resurgence.
Winter 2018 (32.4) • Review
A Foreign Policy for the Left, by Michael Walzer
Michael Walzer’s new book brings together essays from the past sixteen years to offer pragmatic ethical guidance on matters of foreign policy.
Winter 2018 (32.4) • Review
Justice and Natural Resources: An Egalitarian Theory, by Chris Armstrong
Chris Armstrong defends a straightforward and highly plausible thesis: that the benefits and burdens associated with natural resources should be distributed so as to reduce ...
Winter 2018 (32.4) • Review
Principled Spying: The Ethics of Secret Intelligence, by David Omand and Mark Phythian
Principled Spying offers an interesting, thorough, and accessible engagement of the ethical issues associated with intelligence gathering and covert operations.