Fall 2014 (28.3) • Essay
Moral Collapse in a Warming World
When it comes to climate change, moral corruption prevails not because the situation is inherently murky, but because confusion has been deliberately sown.
Fall 2014 (28.3) • Essay
Three Questions on Climate Change
Climate change will have highly significant and largely negative effects on human societies into the foreseeable future, effects that are already generating ethical and policy ...
Fall 2014 (28.3) • Essay
The Changing Ethics of Climate Change
Traditional framings of climate change action being about future generations or simply another dimension of the North-South divide in global geopolitics are not irrelevant today, ...
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.