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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?