Spring 2014 (28.1) • Review
The Politics and Ethics of Identity: In Search of Ourselves by Richard Ned Lebow
Lebow argues that nearly all the claims made by social theorists emphasizing the importance of identity are wrong.
Online Exclusive • 03/16/2014 • Blog
Assessing the Ethics of Secession: Crimea
The vote in Crimea draws attention to the clash between adherence to proper, constitutional procedure and the right to self-determination.
Online Exclusive • 03/16/2014 • Essay
The Ethics of Avoiding Conflict with China
Is there a policy prescription that can avoid turning predictions of a Sino-American clash into a self-fulfilling prophecy?
Spring 2014 (28.1) • Review
Political Self-Sacrifice: Agency, Body and Emotion in International Relations by K. M. Fierke
This book brings what seem like senseless acts of desperation into focus as strategically intelligible and culturally meaningful techniques of resistance.
Spring 2014 (28.1) • Essay
The International Rule of Law: Law and the Limit of Politics
The international rule of law provides political resources with which states and other actors legitimize and delegitimize contending policies. The atomistic nature of the interstate ...
Spring 2014 (28.1) • Essay
Hobbes on the International Rule of Law
The practice of state compliance with international law is not that easily demonstrated to be the product of legal constraint. Indeed, the problem goes beyond ...
Spring 2014 (28.1) • Essay
International Law and the Mediation of Culture
This essay advances an alternative perspective on culture and international law. After exploring in greater detail determinist accounts of this relationship, I reverse the typically ...
Spring 2014 (28.1) • Essay
Drones and the International Rule of Law
U.S. drone strikes represent a significant challenge to the international rule of law. This is not because they “violate” international law; ironically, drone strikes ...
Spring 2014 (28.1) • Essay
Kosovo to Kadi: Legality and Legitimacy in the Contemporary International Order
Whence does international law derive its normative force as law in a world that remains, in many respects, one where legitimate politics is practiced primarily ...
Spring 2014 (28.1) • Feature
Coalitions of the Willing and Responsibilities to Protect: Informal Associations, Enhanced Capacities, and Shared Moral Burdens
There has been widespread support for the idea that the so-called international community has a remedial moral responsibility to protect vulnerable populations from grave human ...