Online Exclusive • 08/19/2013 • Blog
In Memoriam: Jean Bethke Elshtain (1941-2013)
Celebrating Jean Bethke Elshtain, one of the preeminent political theorists of our time.
Online Exclusive • 08/8/2013 • Blog
What Is American Exceptionalism?
The institutions, processes, and values that have shaped American history, among them the rise of capitalism, the spread of political democracy, the rise and fall ...
Online Exclusive • 07/24/2013 • Blog
Upcoming Conferences of Interest
These upcoming conferences may be of interest to our readers.
Online Exclusive • 07/16/2013 • Blog
The Flaws in FAO's New Measurements of Hunger
In this Policy Brief, forthcoming in the Fall issue, leading international development specialists critique the methodology used in 2012 by FAO to count the world's hungry. ...
Online Exclusive • 07/11/2013 • Blog
Whales, Law, and Science: Australia v. Japan at the ICJ
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) met recently to begin hearing its most prominent case in years. It pits two heavyweights, Australia and Japan, against ...
Summer 2013 (27.2) • Journal Issue
Summer 2013 (27.2)
This issue features an essay by Deen Chatterjee on human rights and the liberal conundrum; a Carnegie Council Centennial special roundtable on international peace, with ...
Online Exclusive • 06/13/2013 • Blog
A Response to Deen Chatterjee's "Building Common Ground"
Chatterjee’s contribution to this debate does not go beyond liberalism or whatever conundrums one associates with it; it remains within it.
Summer 2013 (27.2) • Review
Judging State-Sponsored Violence, Imagining Political Change by Bronwyn Leebaw
Leebaw argues that two competing frameworks have come to dominate the field of transitional justice. The first stresses the promotion of law, trials, and individual ...
Spring 2013 (27.1) • Review
The Image before the Weapon: A Critical History of the Distinction between Combatant and Civilian by Helen Kinsella
This book traces the concept of the civilian from medieval times through the colonial era and up to its eventual codification only a few decades ...
Summer 2013 (27.2) • Review
Sex & World Peace by Valerie M. Hudson, Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Mary Caprioli, and Chad F. Emmett
This book clearly and forcefully lays out the links between women’s security and international and domestic security.