Summer 2014 (28.2) • Journal Issue
Summer 2014 (28.2)
This issue features essays by Roger Berkowitz on "Drones and the Question of 'The Human'" and Alan Sussman on the philosophical foundations of human rights; ...
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Cataclysm: David Stevenson on World War I as Political Tragedy
For Stevenson, we must conclude that–although there were mitigating circumstances–Germany was centrally involved in the escalation of the crisis in July and August 1914.
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What Metrics for Assessing the Ethics of Intervention?
Despite the predictions of the optimists in both the Bush and Obama administrations, U.S. interventions to remove undeniably brutal dictators from power have not ...
Summer 2014 (28.2) • Essay
Why Human Rights Are Called Human Rights
No one can engage in commerce when deprived of liberty or autonomy. No one can create or imagine or love when consumed by fear. We ...
Summer 2014 (28.2) • Essay
Drones and the Question of "The Human"
In our headlong embrace of drone technology, we are forgetting to ask two basic questions: What is a drone? And what does it mean that ...
Summer 2014 (28.2) • Essay
The Future of the Human Rights Movement
More than twenty years have passed since the end of the cold war, and the time when people spoke in triumphal terms of the global ...
Summer 2014 (28.2) • Essay
Against a World Court for Human Rights
A World Court is not just an idea whose time has not yet come. The very idea fundamentally misconceives the nature of the challenges confronting ...
Summer 2014 (28.2) • Essay
What Future for Human Rights?
The field of human rights covers many different beliefs, norms, institutions, and activities, and these may well have different futures. Some may flourish while others ...
Summer 2014 (28.2) • Essay
State Sovereignty and International Human Rights
An increasingly robust international politics of human rights will provide valuable support to domestic advocates, help to impede backsliding, and in at least a few ...
Summer 2014 (28.2) • Essay
The Future of Human Rights: A View from the United Nations
It is with respect to human rights that the UN has experienced some of its greatest shortcomings. The new "Rights up Front" plan may help ...