Spring 2013 (27.1) • Feature
Just War Thinking as a Social Practice
Given the niche occupied by just war thinking in contemporary policy discourse, it is worth asking several basic questions about the just war vocabulary. What ...
Spring 2013 (27.1) • Feature
From Jus ad Bellum to Jus ad Vim: Recalibrating Our Understanding of the Moral Use of Force
Just war scholars often do not differentiate between force and war, but rather talk about bellum justum as if all uses of force implied the ...
Spring 2013 (27.1) • Review
Poverty and Morality: Religious and Secular Perspectives, Edited by William A. Galston and Peter H. Hoffenberg
Covering the six major religious traditions and such secular perspectives as classical liberalism, contemporary liberal egalitarianism, Marxism, and feminism, this book offers a valuable collection ...
Spring 2013 (27.1) • Review
Briefly Noted
This section contains a round-up of recent notable books in the field of international affairs.
Fall 2012 (26.3) • Review Essay
Echoes of a Forgotten Past: Mid-Century Realism and the Legacy of International Law
Those studying the work of Hans J. Morgenthau, widely considered the “founding father” of the Realist School of International Relations, have long been baffled by ...
Winter 2011 (25.4) • Review Essay
The Unity and Objectivity of Value
In honor of Ronald Dworkin, one of the most influential and original philosophers and legal theorists of his generation, EIA is republishing a review essay ...
Winter 2012 (26.4) • Review
The Right to Justification: Elements of a Constructivist Theory of Justice by Rainer Forst
In this book--a tour de force that exhibits both a compelling, unified vision and a wide range of concrete insights--Forst explains how his unified theory ...
Winter 2012 (26.4) • Review
Dignity in Adversity: Human Rights in Troubled Times by Seyla Benhabib
In this book, Benhabib makes a compelling case for a “cosmopolitanism without illusions” that may help show the way through an uncertain world transformed and ...
Winter 2012 (26.4) • Review
Global Civics: Responsibilities and Rights in an Interdependent World Edited by Hakan Altinay
"Global Civics" is an attempt to ignite a dialogue about responsibilities and rights in an increasingly interdependent world, and should be of interest to anyone ...
Winter 2012 (26.4) • Review
Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed: The MSF Experience Edited by Claire Magone, Michaël Neuman, and Fabrice Weissman; and Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the Present by Didier Fassin
These two recent works make a complementary and refreshing contribution to the burgeoning field of humanitarian studies. Both books shed new light on the authority ...