Online Exclusive • 01/16/2014 • Blog
Assessing the Ethics of Intervention
How should we assess the ethics of intervention? The policymaker has two initial approaches, the "morality of intentions" versus the "morality of results."
Online Exclusive • 01/9/2014 • Blog
Balancing Private and Public Morality
Reading Annick Cojean’s Gaddafi’s Harem: The Story of a Young Woman And The Abuses of Power in Libya, which chronicles the experiences of ...
Winter 2013 (27.4) • Review
Special Responsibilities: Global Problems and American Power by Mlada Bukovansky, Ian Clark, Robyn Eckersley, Richard Price, Christian Reus-Smit, and Nicholas Wheeler
Claims for "special responsibilities" are sometimes made to rally domestic support for some costly international action, or to exempt a great power from norms that ...
Winter 2013 (27.4) • Review
On Complicity and Compromise by Chiara Lepora and Robert E. Goodin
Humanitarian action is regularly accused of prolonging wars or colluding with vicious regimes. But the profession has been strangely tardy in developing its operational ethics.
Winter 2013 (27.4) • Review
Recovering International Relations: The Promise of Sustainable Critique by Daniel J. Levine
Daniel Levine’s goal is to “recover” IR’s original vocation, or calling, and to reinvigorate it via the idea of “sustainable critique”—a project ...
Winter 2013 (27.4) • Feature
The Touch of Midas: Money, Markets, and Morality
Money, like God, injects infinity into human desires. To love it is to embark on a journey without end. Three new books testify to money’...
Winter 2013 (27.4) • Feature
On Rights to Land, Expulsions, and Corrective Justice
This article examines the nature of the wrongs that are inflicted on individuals and groups who have been expelled from the land that they previously ...
Winter 2013 (27.4) • Feature
Sovereign Wealth Funds and Global Justice
Insofar as ethical debates have begun to touch on how the assets of sovereign wealth funds should be distributed, they have tended to ask how ...
Winter 2013 (27.4) • Essay
Why We Need a Just Rebellion Theory
Because these two influential streams of thought are in such tension with each other, our thinking about rebellion in the West tends to be piecemeal, ...
Winter 2013 (27.4) • Essay
Christian Just War Reasoning and Two Cases of Rebellion: Ireland 1916–1921 and Syria 2011–Present
Christian just war reasoning is conservative in its recognition that peaceful order is basic to all other forms of human flourishing, and so should not ...