Fall 2014 (28.3) • Review
The Vulnerable in International Society by Ian Clark
As Clark shows, order is much more than balancing, deterrence, diplomacy, peace, and war. How international society manages global problems should be of major concern ...
Fall 2014 (28.3) • Review
Just Freedom: A Moral Compass for a Complex World by Philip Pettit
An innovative and resonate work, this book explores new ground in Pettit’s ongoing attempt to articulate the importance of republicanism in the modern age.
Fall 2014 (28.3) • Review Essay
Western Pessimism, Asian Optimism: Three Perspectives on Global Governance
SIR RICHARD JOLLY Each of these books underlines the predicaments and challenges of global governance today. Stronger initiatives are urgently needed to provide the opportunities ...
Fall 2014 (28.3) • Essay
Who Are Atrocity’s “Real” Perpetrators, Who Its “True” Victims and Beneficiaries?
Modern law’s response to mass atrocities vacillates equivocally in how it understands the dramatis personae to these expansive tragedies, at once extraordinary and ubiquitous.
Online Exclusive • 08/28/2014 • Blog
Honesty about War?
The UN Charter commits its members to refrain from the use or even the threat of the use of force in their relations with other ...
Online Exclusive • 08/19/2014 • Blog
Are "Coalitions of the Willing" Moral Agents?
We should agree with Erskine that group decision-making procedures are crucial to group agency, but need to be more permissive than she is about how “...
Online Exclusive • 08/13/2014 • Blog
Yazidis, Airstrikes and the Ethics of Limited Action
More Yazidis may survive than if the U.S. had done nothing at all, but beyond airstrikes, the U.S. does not appear prepared to ...
Online Exclusive • 07/23/2014 • Blog
Upcoming Conferences of Interest: Fall & Winter 2014
These are some upcoming conferences the editors believe readers of the journal may interested in attending.
Online Exclusive • 07/22/2014 • Blog
The Ethics of Weapons Transfers: Ukraine and the Fate of MH-17
The tragic destruction of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 in the skies over Eastern Ukraine has once again raised the question about the degree of responsibility the ...
Online Exclusive • 07/16/2014 • Blog
July 1914: Sean McMeekin on the Outbreak of World War I
Prior to WWI, says McMeekin, no one in Europe or elsewhere in the world—except the perpetrators—had any inkling that an avoidable act of ...