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Fall 2013 (27.3) • Review
Just Business: Multinational Corporations and Human Rights by John Gerard Ruggie
This book offers an insider’s account of how the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights came into being. Although readers may sometimes strain ...
Fall 2013 (27.3) • Essay
How We Count Hunger Matters
In 2010 the FAO reported that in the wake of the 2007–2008 food-price spikes and global economic crisis, the number of people experiencing hunger worldwide since 2005–2007 had ...
Fall 2013 (27.3) • Essay
The Gordian Knot: Moral Debate and Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear weapons are not awe-inspiring, epochal, or war-winning, nor are they certain instruments of doom. They are clumsy, muscle-bound, expensive, unhandy weapons with little use ...
Fall 2013 (27.3) • Essay
The Threat of Nuclear Proliferation: Perception and Reality
The United States is right to be vigilant against the threat of nuclear proliferation. But such vigilance can all too easily lend itself to exaggeration ...
Fall 2013 (27.3) • Feature
The Nonproliferation Complex
In this essay, we trace the history of the rise of the nuclear nonproliferation complex during and immediately after the cold war. We show how ...
Fall 2013 (27.3) • Review
The Human Right to Health by Jonathan Wolff
This book will provoke the reader to think about how to bring the public sector, civil society, industry, patents, health financing, and human resources together ...
Fall 2013 (27.3) • Essay
Justice and Fairness in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime
This essay focuses on two key questions: First, how do the issues of justice and fairness affect the stability, durability, and effectiveness of the nuclear ...
Fall 2013 (27.3) • Review
Kant and the End of War: A Critique of Just War Theory by Howard Williams; and Kant and Cosmopolitanism: The Philosophical Ideal of World Citizenship by Pauline Kleingeld
These new books, by two of the foremost contemporary scholars of Kant’s political philosophy, deal extensively with the theme of international peace.