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 ...
Fall 2013 (27.3) • Review
The Human Right to Health by Jonathan Wolff
This book will provoke the reader to think about how to bring the public sector, civil society, industry, patents, health financing, and human resources together ...
Fall 2013 (27.3) • Essay
Justice and Fairness in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime
This essay focuses on two key questions: First, how do the issues of justice and fairness affect the stability, durability, and effectiveness of the nuclear ...
Fall 2013 (27.3) • Review
Kant and the End of War: A Critique of Just War Theory by Howard Williams; and Kant and Cosmopolitanism: The Philosophical Ideal of World Citizenship by Pauline Kleingeld
These new books, by two of the foremost contemporary scholars of Kant’s political philosophy, deal extensively with the theme of international peace.
Fall 2013 (27.3) • Essay
Hunger, Food Security, and the African Land Grab
Many global analysts predict that the biggest security threats in the twenty-first century may center on disputes over water and the food that Earth’s ...
Fall 2013 (27.3) • Feature
Nonproliferation: A Global Issue for a Global Ethic
This essay, focused on the continuing moral challenge of nuclear weapons, recalls the intellectual and moral lessons of the last century and identifies three leading ...
Online Exclusive • 09/5/2013 • Blog
Living With Injustice: Lessons from 1963
This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the writing of three seminal texts in twentieth century philosophy. An examination of these texts—by King, Arendt, ...
Online Exclusive • 09/5/2013 • Blog
Syria: The Case for Punitive Intervention
If the focus in Syria is on reinforcing the norms banning the use of chemical weapons, a punitive air strike should be seen as the ...