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Winter 2014 (28.4) Feature

How Norms Die: Torture and Assassination in American Security Policy

CHRISTOPHER KUTZ Because of their sensitivity to public mobilization around normative questions, democracies do better than authoritarian regimes in internalizing certain kinds of constraints. But ...

Winter 2014 (28.4) Essay

On Collective Ownership of the Earth

Once positive laws and conventions regulating property evolve, in what sense is the world still owned by humanity? If I own my house and my ...

Winter 2014 (28.4) Essay

Against Relationalism in Global Justice Theory

Much recent global justice theory consists of arguing for the idea that we owe more to fellow countrymen than to mere foreigners. Risse's book is ...

Winter 2014 (28.4) Essay

Understanding “Cultures of Humanitarianism” in East Asia

What are the implications of the emerging diversity in humanitarianism? By examining such traditions in East Asia, we can better understand variations in the idea ...

Winter 2014 (28.4) Feature

The “Responsibility to Prevent”: An International Crimes Approach to the Prevention of Mass Atrocities

Insights from criminology suggest that an international crimes approach to the prevention of mass atrocities upends many of the usual assumptions on the preventive dimension ...

Winter 2014 (28.4) Essay

Risse on Justice in Trade

Risse tries to stake out a middle ground between those who fail to recognize the full normative significance of contemporary international relationships and those who ...

Winter 2014 (28.4) Essay

Response to Arneson, de Bres, and Stilz

The author discusses his attempt at constructing a multilayered theory of global justice, where many considerations must be brought into reflective equilibrium.

Online Exclusive 12/3/2014 Blog

An Introduction to the New Centennial Ebook from EIA

This podcast introduces EIA's new ebook on the most critical issues facing the world today. Ebook free for a limited time!

Online Exclusive 12/3/2014 Blog

Animals as Citizens: A Response to Will Kymlicka

Kymlicka believes that animals should be considered citizens. But the animal-human relationship seems fundamentally dissimilar to its human-human counterpart.

Winter 2014 (28.4) Journal Issue

Winter 2014 (28.4)

This issue includes an essay by Jacinta O’Hagan and Miwa Hirono on "cultures of humanitarianism" in East Asia; articles by Christopher Kutz on torture, ...