Fall 2017 (31.3) • Feature
“Utopian in the Right Sense”: The Responsibility to Protect and the Logical Necessity of Reform
In this article, Aidan Hehir writes that claims made about the success of the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) echo the pejorative conceptions of “utopianism” as ...
Fall 2017 (31.3) • Review Essay
Poverty Alleviation, Global Justice, and the Real World
For nearly half a century, political theorists have wrestled with the problem of global social justice, producing ever more elaborate and analytically-sophisticated models, but without ...
Fall 2017 (31.3) • Review Essay
The Ethics of Insurgency
In this review essay, James Turner Johnson considers two recent books on the ethics of insurgency warfare. He draws on the deep history of moral ...
Fall 2017 (31.3) • Review
Lawfare: Law as a Weapon of War by Orde Kittrie
Orde Kittrie’s impressive new book describes the various uses of law to accomplish military aims in international affairs. It offers a systematic, detailed, and ...
Fall 2017 (31.3) • Review
Disease Diplomacy: International Norms and Global Health Security by Sara E. Davies, Adam Kamradt-Scott, and Simon Rushton
In Disease Diplomacy, the authors provide an empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated account of the reform of the International Health Regulations. The book also makes ...
Fall 2017 (31.3) • Review
When Norms Collide: Local Responses to Activism against Female Genital Mutilation and Early Marriage by Karisa Cloward
In this book, Karissa Cloward employs a mixed-methods study to examine the ways that local communities react to transnational activism and international norm promotion. In ...
Fall 2017 (31.3) • Review
Power Shift: On the New Global Order by Richard Falk
Richard Falk’s most recent book is full of interesting insights and displays an impressive degree of rhetorical power. Collectively, these essays demonstrate, rather convincingly, ...
Fall 2017 (31.3) • Review
Briefly Noted
A brief book review of Susan P. Murphy's Responsibility in an Interconnected World: International Assistance, Duty, and Action.
Online Exclusive • 08/23/2017 • Blog
The Perils of Virtue Signaling in Foreign Policy
Virtue signaling that is detached from achievable outcomes is an ethically-worse option.
Online Exclusive • 08/2/2017 • Blog
“Victory” In Mosul: Fighting Well and the Horrors of “Winning”
Mosul illustrates how victory at all costs is no victory at all, and why contemporary just war thinkers need to re-conceptualize the idea of victory.