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 ...
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, ...