Summer 2015 (29.2) • Review Essay
Human Rights Law Without Natural Moral Rights
In his latest work, Allen Buchanan outlines a novel framework for assessing the system of international human rights law—the system that he takes to ...
Summer 2015 (29.2) • Review
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama
Where did strong, adaptable, accountable states come from, and why do some countries have them and others do not? Fukuyama discusses three main paths to ...
Summer 2015 (29.2) • Review
The Ethics of Immigration by Joseph Carens
The current ethical debate about the legitimacy of migration controls would not exist but for Joseph Carens' writing. At last the book-length version of his ...
Summer 2015 (29.2) • Feature
The Idea of Universality in the Sustainable Development Goals
Despite an apparent “emerging consensus that the post-2015 agenda should be universal,” there is less agreement over what universality means, and how this demand should ...
Summer 2015 (29.2) • Essay
Against Moral Absolutism: Surveillance and Disclosure After Snowden
RAHUL SAGAR Now that the uproar provoked by the disclosure of the NSA surveillance programs has lessened and Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald have had ...
Online Exclusive • 06/8/2015 • Blog
Ethical Choices for a Superpower
As U.S. presidential candidates begin to lay out their visions for foreign policy, it will be critical to understand the ethical foundations for their ...
Online Exclusive • 06/4/2015 • Essay
Response to Critics of The Thin Justice of International Law
In this, the final contribution to our online symposium, Ratner responds to critics of his book.
Online Exclusive • 06/3/2015 • Essay
Reflections on The Thin Justice of International Law: Peace, Justice, and Secession
I maintain contra Ratner that peace should not be characterized as a component (or, in his language, a pillar) of justice. This dispute over the ...
Online Exclusive • 06/3/2015 • Blog
Ukraine, Reforms, and "Doing the Right Thing"
The sad reality is that for much of its post-Soviet history, successive Ukrainian governments have postponed taking the hard steps needed to bring about real ...