Online Exclusive • 07/23/2014 • Blog
Upcoming Conferences of Interest: Fall & Winter 2014
These are some upcoming conferences the editors believe readers of the journal may interested in attending.
Online Exclusive • 07/22/2014 • Blog
The Ethics of Weapons Transfers: Ukraine and the Fate of MH-17
The tragic destruction of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 in the skies over Eastern Ukraine has once again raised the question about the degree of responsibility the ...
Online Exclusive • 07/16/2014 • Blog
July 1914: Sean McMeekin on the Outbreak of World War I
Prior to WWI, says McMeekin, no one in Europe or elsewhere in the world—except the perpetrators—had any inkling that an avoidable act of ...
Summer 2014 (28.2) • Journal Issue
Summer 2014 (28.2)
This issue features essays by Roger Berkowitz on "Drones and the Question of 'The Human'" and Alan Sussman on the philosophical foundations of human rights; ...
Online Exclusive • 06/27/2014 • Blog
Cataclysm: David Stevenson on World War I as Political Tragedy
For Stevenson, we must conclude that–although there were mitigating circumstances–Germany was centrally involved in the escalation of the crisis in July and August 1914.
Online Exclusive • 06/24/2014 • Blog
What Metrics for Assessing the Ethics of Intervention?
Despite the predictions of the optimists in both the Bush and Obama administrations, U.S. interventions to remove undeniably brutal dictators from power have not ...
Summer 2014 (28.2) • Essay
Why Human Rights Are Called Human Rights
No one can engage in commerce when deprived of liberty or autonomy. No one can create or imagine or love when consumed by fear. We ...
Summer 2014 (28.2) • Essay
Drones and the Question of "The Human"
In our headlong embrace of drone technology, we are forgetting to ask two basic questions: What is a drone? And what does it mean that ...
Summer 2014 (28.2) • Essay
The Future of the Human Rights Movement
More than twenty years have passed since the end of the cold war, and the time when people spoke in triumphal terms of the global ...
Summer 2014 (28.2) • Essay
Against a World Court for Human Rights
A World Court is not just an idea whose time has not yet come. The very idea fundamentally misconceives the nature of the challenges confronting ...