Winter 2013 (27.4) • Essay
Muslim Discourse on Rebellion
Within Islamic thought, the judgments pertaining to rebels--known as ahkam al-bughat--constitute a subset of the larger category of “judgments pertaining to armed struggle,” or ahkam ...
Winter 2013 (27.4) • Essay
Ad Fontes: The Question of Rebellion and Moral Tradition on the Use of Force
JAMES TURNER JOHNSON On the older conception, the sovereign could use force against behavior that he understood as endangering the order, justice, and peace of ...
Winter 2013 (27.4) • Review
A Perfect Moral Storm: The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change by Stephen M. Gardiner
REVIEW BY PAUL WAPNER The challenges and complexities of the global, intergenerational, and theoretical tempests related to climate change conspire to create the perfect storm, ...
Winter 2013 (27.4) • Essay
The Ethical Imperative of Curbing Corporate Tax Avoidance
If the future of human rights is dependent on the capacity of the state to fulfill them, then one must focus on how the private ...
Online Exclusive • 12/5/2013 • Blog
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Winter 2013 (27.4) • Journal Issue
Winter 2013 (27.4)
This issue features an essay by David Scheffer on curbing corporate tax avoidance; a roundtable on the ethics of rebellion, with contributions from James Turner ...
Online Exclusive • 11/26/2013 • Blog
An Ethical Nuclear Posture for the 21st Century?
What is the appropriate role (and size) of a U.S. nuclear force that would make both strategic and ethical sense? The U.S. still ...
Online Exclusive • 10/15/2013 • Blog
After the Catastrophe: Ian Buruma on 1945
In his recent visit to Carnegie Council, Ian Buruma gave a fascinating talk about the postwar world, which originated during what he calls "year zero"...
Online Exclusive • 10/8/2013 • Blog
The UN’s Unprecedented Gamble in the Democratic Republic of Congo
The Forward Intervention Brigade represents an unprecedented use of the Security Council’s Chapter VII peacekeeping mandate, and risks undermining peacekeeping’s core tenets of ...
Online Exclusive • 10/4/2013 • Blog
See No Evil: Drones and Public Opinion
When it comes to drone strikes, Americans often have to juggle two mutually exclusive beliefs. On the one hand, only a quarter of respondents believe ...