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 ...
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 ...