Online Exclusive • 09/27/2016 • Essay
Autonomous Weapon Diplomacy: The Geneva Debates
The third and most recent informal experts' meeting on lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) took place in April 2016 at the UN Convention on Certain Conventional ...
Fall 2016 (30.3) • Response
Robots as “Evil Means”? A Rejoinder to Jenkins and Purves
The notion that some means of waging war are mala in se is a confronting one. Surely, any weapon can be used for good or ...
Fall 2016 (30.3) • Response
Robots and Respect: A Response to Robert Sparrow
Robert Sparrow recently argued in this journal that several initially plausible arguments in favor of the deployment of autonomous weapon systems (AWS) in warfare are ...
Fall 2016 (30.3) • Review Essay
Ethics and Inequality: A Strategic and Practical View
Deng Xiaoping once said, “Let some get rich first, the others will follow.” This is Angus Deaton’s basic view in The Great Escape. Deaton, ...
Fall 2016 (30.3) • Feature
Self-Interest and the Distant Vulnerable
What interests do states have in assisting and protecting vulnerable populations beyond their borders? Today, confronted as we are with civil wars, mass atrocities, and ...
Fall 2016 (30.3) • Feature
Should International Courts Use Public Reason?
Is public reason an appropriate ideal for international courts? Since the early 1990s various political philosophers and legal scholars have argued that supreme courts should “...
Fall 2016 (30.3) • Essay
Climate Contributions and the Paris Agreement: Fairness and Equity in a Bottom-Up Architecture
Ethical questions of fairness, responsibility, and burden-sharing have always been central to the international politics of climate change and efforts to construct an effective intergovernmental ...
Fall 2016 (30.3) • Essay
Recognition: A Short History
During the past decade there has been a resurgence of interest in the concept of recognition in international theory. Once the narrow concern of social ...
Fall 2016 (30.3) • Essay
Swedish Feminist Foreign Policy in the Making: Ethics, Politics, and Gender
In 2014 the world’s first self-defined feminist government was formed in Sweden. As part of that ambitious declaration, Sweden also became the first state ever ...
Fall 2016 (30.3) • Review
Realpolitik: A History by John Bew
Realpolitik is back—or if not back, at least enjoying a day in the sun more fully than it has for several decades. Chastened by ...