Summer 2014 (28.2) • Essay
What Future for Human Rights?
The field of human rights covers many different beliefs, norms, institutions, and activities, and these may well have different futures. Some may flourish while others ...
Summer 2014 (28.2) • Essay
State Sovereignty and International Human Rights
An increasingly robust international politics of human rights will provide valuable support to domestic advocates, help to impede backsliding, and in at least a few ...
Summer 2014 (28.2) • Essay
The Future of Human Rights: A View from the United Nations
It is with respect to human rights that the UN has experienced some of its greatest shortcomings. The new "Rights up Front" plan may help ...
Summer 2014 (28.2) • Review Essay
From Empire to Sovereignty—and Back?
JENS BARTLESON How do empires and sovereign states relate, conceptually as well as historically? It is no coincidence that many historians of political thought are ...
Summer 2014 (28.2) • Review
Fairness in Practice: A Social Contract for a Global Economy by Aaron James
This book brings political economy, international relations, and development economics into conversation with moral philosophy, making a critical contribution to the ethics of globalization.
Summer 2014 (28.2) • Review
Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency by Lea Ypi
In this book, Ypi proposes that theory begin with a specific political conflict, diagnose the failure of existing practices and norms to resolve it, and, ...
Summer 2014 (28.2) • Review
Climate Matters: Ethics in a Warming World by John Broome
DALE JAMIESON This book greatly contributes to our attempts to meet the challenge of climate change and to answer the difficult questions that it raises.
Online Exclusive • 05/31/2014 • Blog
Syria and the Saratoga Moment
What are the ethical considerations in continuing to aid the anti-Assad opposition in Syria?
Online Exclusive • 05/29/2014 • Blog
"Fairness and its Opposite": International Student Photo Contest
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs announces its second annual International Student Photography Contest.