Online Exclusive • 12/16/2014 • Blog
EIA Podcast: Introducing the Winter 2014 Issue
In this podcast, EIA Associate Editor Zach Dorfman speaks with Carnegie Council Communications Director Madeleine Lynn on the winter 2014 issue of the journal.
Online Exclusive • 12/16/2014 • Blog
How Norms Die: A Response
Authoritarian regimes routinely use torture against domestic political opponents; democracies hardly ever do. What the two regimes share is that they place little weight on ...
Winter 2014 (28.4) • Review Essay
Thomas Piketty’s Capital and the Developing World
NANCY BIRDSALL What is the future of the global capitalist system? In returning economics to politics, Capital reminds us that the road to global distributive ...
Winter 2014 (28.4) • Feature
How Norms Die: Torture and Assassination in American Security Policy
CHRISTOPHER KUTZ Because of their sensitivity to public mobilization around normative questions, democracies do better than authoritarian regimes in internalizing certain kinds of constraints. But ...
Winter 2014 (28.4) • Essay
On Collective Ownership of the Earth
Once positive laws and conventions regulating property evolve, in what sense is the world still owned by humanity? If I own my house and my ...
Winter 2014 (28.4) • Essay
Against Relationalism in Global Justice Theory
Much recent global justice theory consists of arguing for the idea that we owe more to fellow countrymen than to mere foreigners. Risse's book is ...
Winter 2014 (28.4) • Essay
Understanding “Cultures of Humanitarianism” in East Asia
What are the implications of the emerging diversity in humanitarianism? By examining such traditions in East Asia, we can better understand variations in the idea ...
Winter 2014 (28.4) • Feature
The “Responsibility to Prevent”: An International Crimes Approach to the Prevention of Mass Atrocities
Insights from criminology suggest that an international crimes approach to the prevention of mass atrocities upends many of the usual assumptions on the preventive dimension ...
Winter 2014 (28.4) • Essay
Risse on Justice in Trade
Risse tries to stake out a middle ground between those who fail to recognize the full normative significance of contemporary international relationships and those who ...
Winter 2014 (28.4) • Essay
Response to Arneson, de Bres, and Stilz
The author discusses his attempt at constructing a multilayered theory of global justice, where many considerations must be brought into reflective equilibrium.