Spring 2013 (27.1) • Feature
Thinking Ethically about the Use of Force [Full Text]
BY CIAN O'DRISCOLL What does it mean to think ethically about the use of force? This beguilingly simple question is difficult to address.
Spring 2013 (27.1) • Feature
Contemporary Just War Thinking: Which Is Worse, to Have Friends or Critics?
The increasingly widespread and energetic engagement with the idea of just war over the last fifty years of thinking on morality and armed conflict—especially ...
Spring 2013 (27.1) • Feature
Divisions within the Ranks? The Just War Tradition and the Use and Abuse of History
Have the critics of the historical approach to just war theory landed it a knock-out blow, or can it withstand the bricks and bats that ...
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 ...