Summer 2014 (28.2) • Review Essay
From Empire to Sovereignty—and Back?
JENS BARTLESON How do empires and sovereign states relate, conceptually as well as historically? It is no coincidence that many historians of political thought are ...
Summer 2014 (28.2) • Review
Fairness in Practice: A Social Contract for a Global Economy by Aaron James
This book brings political economy, international relations, and development economics into conversation with moral philosophy, making a critical contribution to the ethics of globalization.
Summer 2014 (28.2) • Review
Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency by Lea Ypi
In this book, Ypi proposes that theory begin with a specific political conflict, diagnose the failure of existing practices and norms to resolve it, and, ...
Summer 2014 (28.2) • Review
Climate Matters: Ethics in a Warming World by John Broome
DALE JAMIESON This book greatly contributes to our attempts to meet the challenge of climate change and to answer the difficult questions that it raises.
Online Exclusive • 05/31/2014 • Blog
Syria and the Saratoga Moment
What are the ethical considerations in continuing to aid the anti-Assad opposition in Syria?
Online Exclusive • 05/29/2014 • Blog
"Fairness and its Opposite": International Student Photo Contest
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs announces its second annual International Student Photography Contest.
Online Exclusive • 05/21/2014 • Podcast
The Long Shadow: David Reynolds on World War I
For Reynolds, many of our contemporary problems have roots in what George Kennan called the "great seminal catastrophe" of the twentieth century: World War I.
Online Exclusive • 05/5/2014 • Blog
Mulligans in The Golf Game of International Law
Over the past several years, it seems that international law really is in the eye of the beholder—and that some states have less consistency ...
Online Exclusive • 04/10/2014 • Blog
Ukraine, The Great Powers, Budapest, and Astheneia
The Ukrainian government was either led to believe or fooled itself into thinking that was was produced in Budapest in 1994 constituted guarantees about its security, ...