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 ...
Fall 2016 (30.3) • Review
Can Microfinance Work? How to Improve Its Ethical Balance and Effectiveness by Lesley Sherratt
By 2009 the reckless greed of subprime mortgage lenders in the United States had become clear. Housing prices had collapsed by 30 percent or more, and families, ...
Fall 2016 (30.3) • Review
Briefly Noted
Democratic peace theory rests on the largely untested assumption that leaders of liberal democratic states will be held publicly accountable for the costs of war.