Fall 2012 (26.3) • Feature
International Rescue and Mediated Consequences
It is generally assumed that when judging the proportionality of a humanitarian intervention, these consequences must be factored into the equation. If an intervention is ...
Fall 2012 (26.3) • Review Essay
Two Cheers for Humanitarianism
The unsettled boundaries of what properly constitutes humanitarianism brings a number of difficult questions to the surface.
Summer 2012 (26.2) • Feature
Outreach, Impact, Collaboration: Why Academics Should Join to Stand Against Poverty
BY THOMAS POGGE AND LUIS CABRERA. What contributions can be made by academics to combat poverty?
Summer 2012 (26.2) • Feature
Navigating Between Extremes: Academics Helping to Eradicate Global Poverty
This article attempts to extract what we know and have learned about how best to accelerate the process of reducing extreme poverty, including what does ...
Summer 2012 (26.2) • Feature
Addressing Poverty and Climate Change: The Varieties of Social Engagement
In this article I propose to explore two issues. The first concerns what kinds of contributions academics can make to reducing poverty. I argue that ...
Summer 2012 (26.2) • Feature
Beyond Charity: Helping NGOs Lead a Transformative New Public Discourse on Global Poverty and Social Justice
This article looks at the role that Northern nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) can play in engaging domestic publics in efforts to eradicate mass global poverty. There ...
Summer 2012 (26.2) • Feature
How Academics Can Help People Make Better Decisions Concerning Global Poverty
In this essay I focus mainly on one decision one group of decision-makers faces—concerning whether to give money to NGOs working to combat global ...
Summer 2012 (26.2) • Feature
Global Poverty and the Limits of Academic Expertise
Academics are not a natural kind. They have varied expertise and aims, and most have no expertise that is particularly relevant to problems of poverty ...
Summer 2012 (26.2) • Review
Hegemony in International Society by Ian Clark
This book is the third in a series in which Ian Clark has applied the concept of legitimacy to the English School’s way of ...
Summer 2012 (26.2) • Review
The Arc of the Moral Universe and Other Essays by Joshua Cohen
This volume collects eleven of Joshua Cohen’s essays, each of which deals in some way with the nature and role of political justice and ...