Online Exclusive • 09/18/2015 • Essay
Choosing Among Alternative Responses to Mass Atrocity: Between the Individual and the Collectivity
MARK OSIEL When a country pursues only a single mode of atrocity response, it will over-individualize or over-collectivize its treatment of wrongdoer and victim, in ...
Fall 2015 (29.3) • Essay
Michael Blake's Border Controls
Michael Blake's rules for global justice are too rigid. They misinterpret the commitment to the moral equality of all humans everywhere, which is supposed to ...
Fall 2015 (29.3) • Essay
Justice and Foreign Policy: A Reply to My Critics
Sustained debate on the ethical dimensions of foreign policy is no longer a rarity. I thank Caney, Gilabert, Miller, and Stilz for their arguments, and ...
Fall 2015 (29.3) • Feature
Unethical Consumption and Obligations to Signal
To bring about an end to the harms involved in the production of everyday goods, what should the individual do?
Fall 2015 (29.3) • Essay
Coercion, Justification, and Inequality: Defending Global Egalitarianism
I share Blake’s commitment to universal liberal values and also his commitment to autonomy. We part ways, however, over the question of when egalitarian ...
Fall 2015 (29.3) • Essay
Global Moral Egalitarianism and Global Distributive Egalitarianism
A global egalitarian approach is better for characterizing the wrongs involved in international exploitation than a global sufficientarian approach.
Fall 2015 (29.3) • Essay
Against Democratic Interventionism
While we should persuade foreigners to democratize, we have no right to forcibly impose a democratic political order on them so long as their current ...
Fall 2015 (29.3) • Review
The Ethics of Preventive War, Edited by Deen K. Chatterjee
Must states comply with the strict standards of international law when they have sound consequentialist reasons for waging preventive wars to avoid future threats of ...
Fall 2015 (29.3) • Essay
International Judges: Is There a Global Ethic?
RICHARD J. GOLDSTONE Thousands of judges from across the globe now sit on international courts. It is time to systematically consider professional ethical standards.