Fall 2013 (27.3) • Journal Issue
Fall 2013 (27.3)
This issue features an essay by Richard Schiffman on poverty, food security, and the land grab in Africa; a policy brief by Frances Moore Lappé, ...
Online Exclusive • 09/26/2013 • Blog
Theory Meets Reality: Reacting to WMD Use in Syria
Since the end of the cold war, debates over the ethical propriety of the possession and the willingness to use WMD were seen as largely ...
Online Exclusive • 09/24/2013 • Blog
Syria and the Just Use of Force Short of War
The Obama administration has spoken of punishing the Assad regime, of deterring future attacks, of reinforcing the norm against chemical weapons use, and of diminishing ...
Online Exclusive • 09/19/2013 • Blog
What We're Reading: Ethics Around the Web
Here are a few links to interesting and relevant stories around the web on ethics, political theory, international affairs, and more.
Online Exclusive • 09/16/2013 • Blog
Upcoming Conferences of Interest
These upcoming conferences may be of interest to our readers.
Fall 2013 (27.3) • Review
Just Business: Multinational Corporations and Human Rights by John Gerard Ruggie
This book offers an insider’s account of how the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights came into being. Although readers may sometimes strain ...
Fall 2013 (27.3) • Essay
How We Count Hunger Matters
In 2010 the FAO reported that in the wake of the 2007–2008 food-price spikes and global economic crisis, the number of people experiencing hunger worldwide since 2005–2007 had ...
Fall 2013 (27.3) • Essay
The Gordian Knot: Moral Debate and Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear weapons are not awe-inspiring, epochal, or war-winning, nor are they certain instruments of doom. They are clumsy, muscle-bound, expensive, unhandy weapons with little use ...
Fall 2013 (27.3) • Essay
The Threat of Nuclear Proliferation: Perception and Reality
The United States is right to be vigilant against the threat of nuclear proliferation. But such vigilance can all too easily lend itself to exaggeration ...
Fall 2013 (27.3) • Feature
The Nonproliferation Complex
In this essay, we trace the history of the rise of the nuclear nonproliferation complex during and immediately after the cold war. We show how ...