Fall 2014 (28.3) • Essay
A "Natural" Proposal for Addressing Climate Change
One of the fundamental challenges of climate change is that we contribute to it increment by increment, and experience it increment by increment after a ...
Fall 2014 (28.3) • Feature
Drones, Risk, and Perpetual Force
How should we conceptualize the use of missile-equipped uninhabited aerial vehicles (UAVs or “drones”) in the U.S. “war on terror”? If violence of this ...
Fall 2014 (28.3) • Review
The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present by David Runciman
This book provides a clear and plausible articulation of democracy’s central dilemma, paired with a far less definite treatment of its implications for the ...
Fall 2014 (28.3) • Review
The Vulnerable in International Society by Ian Clark
As Clark shows, order is much more than balancing, deterrence, diplomacy, peace, and war. How international society manages global problems should be of major concern ...
Fall 2014 (28.3) • Review
Just Freedom: A Moral Compass for a Complex World by Philip Pettit
An innovative and resonate work, this book explores new ground in Pettit’s ongoing attempt to articulate the importance of republicanism in the modern age.
Fall 2014 (28.3) • Review Essay
Western Pessimism, Asian Optimism: Three Perspectives on Global Governance
SIR RICHARD JOLLY Each of these books underlines the predicaments and challenges of global governance today. Stronger initiatives are urgently needed to provide the opportunities ...
Fall 2014 (28.3) • Essay
Who Are Atrocity’s “Real” Perpetrators, Who Its “True” Victims and Beneficiaries?
Modern law’s response to mass atrocities vacillates equivocally in how it understands the dramatis personae to these expansive tragedies, at once extraordinary and ubiquitous.
Online Exclusive • 08/28/2014 • Blog
Honesty about War?
The UN Charter commits its members to refrain from the use or even the threat of the use of force in their relations with other ...
Online Exclusive • 08/19/2014 • Blog
Are "Coalitions of the Willing" Moral Agents?
We should agree with Erskine that group decision-making procedures are crucial to group agency, but need to be more permissive than she is about how “...
Online Exclusive • 08/13/2014 • Blog
Yazidis, Airstrikes and the Ethics of Limited Action
More Yazidis may survive than if the U.S. had done nothing at all, but beyond airstrikes, the U.S. does not appear prepared to ...