Online Exclusive • 04/9/2014 • Blog
Preventing Corporate Human Rights Abuse: It's Time for Government Action
Each time we celebrate a bold move of a company, we do so precisely because embedding human rights in business practice is just that: a ...
Spring 2014 (28.1) • Journal Issue
Spring 2014 (28.1)
This issue features a policy brief by Michael W. Doyle and Joseph E. Stiglitz on eliminating extreme inequality worldwide; essays by Amartya Sen on Buddha ...
Spring 2014 (28.1) • Essay
The Contemporary Relevance of Buddha
There is a basic humanity in the story of Buddha’s life that is easy to access and absorb in our own lives.
Spring 2014 (28.1) • Essay
Eliminating Extreme Inequality: A Sustainable Development Goal, 2015–2030
Sustainable development cannot be achieved while ignoring extreme disparities. It is imperative that the post-MDG agenda focus on inequality.
Online Exclusive • 03/19/2014 • Interview
The Lost Promise of Patriotism and World War I (Part I)
In this interview, Hansen describes a group of American scholars, public intellectuals, and social reformers—such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Eugene V. Debs, ...
Online Exclusive • 03/19/2014 • Interview
Dance of the Furies: Michael Neiberg on the Outbreak of World War I
MICHAEL NEIBERG AND MLADEN JOKSIC For Neiberg, it is impossible to see how a Second World War, a Holocaust, a Cold War, a globally-engaged United ...
Online Exclusive • 03/19/2014 • Interview
The Lost Promise of Patriotism and World War I (Part II)
JONATHAN HANSEN AND ZACH DORFMAN "The entry of the United States into World War I in April 1917 swamped cosmopolitan patriotism in a wave of jingoism," ...
Spring 2014 (28.1) • Review
The Politics and Ethics of Identity: In Search of Ourselves by Richard Ned Lebow
Lebow argues that nearly all the claims made by social theorists emphasizing the importance of identity are wrong.
Online Exclusive • 03/16/2014 • Blog
Assessing the Ethics of Secession: Crimea
The vote in Crimea draws attention to the clash between adherence to proper, constitutional procedure and the right to self-determination.
Online Exclusive • 03/16/2014 • Essay
The Ethics of Avoiding Conflict with China
Is there a policy prescription that can avoid turning predictions of a Sino-American clash into a self-fulfilling prophecy?