Recent Articles
JAN 22, 2016 • Article
The Reduction of Mass Atrocity Crimes in Southeast Asia, the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), and the Individual Responsibility to Protect (IR2P)
For a variety of reasons, Southeast Asia has experienced a significant reduction in mass atrocity crimes in the last 30 years. Frank suggests that R2P ...
JAN 22, 2016 • Journal Online Exclusive
Cameron, Litvinenko, and Ethical Dilemmas
NICK GVOSDEV A British citizen was murdered by the agents of a foreign power at the probable behest of that country’s leader. What should ...
JAN 21, 2016 • Article
Rising Fences: Migrants, Borders, and a New Frontier for Ethics
What will 2015 be remembered for? The image that comes to mind is “rising fences.” If we took a satellite photo of the planet, that would ...
JAN 21, 2016 • Article
The Concept of Humane Democracy and a New Global Order
"Differing from liberal democracy whose political goal is rather negatively conceived in a sense of protecting individual rights, the concept of humane democracy is envisioned ...
JAN 21, 2016 • Article
Rethinking U.S. Strategy Towards China
"To improve U.S. policy towards China to avoid, and yet be prepared for, conflict requires going beyond simplistic applications of international relations theory. It ...
JAN 21, 2016 • Article
Asia in the 21st Century: Strategic Realignments amidst a Changing Balance of Power
Despite some setbacks, to the extent that quantifiable indices of power matter, and the historical evidence shows that they do, America's international position bids fair ...
JAN 21, 2016 • Article
Rising Fences: Migrants, Borders, and a New Frontier for Ethics
"What will 2015 be remembered for? The image that comes to mind is 'rising fences.' If we took a satellite photo of the planet, that ...
JAN 12, 2016 • Journal Online Exclusive
Revisiting the Management of Pluralism
The recent migration surge into Europe and the United States raises profound questions of demographic and cultural pluralism.
JAN 12, 2016 • Article
The Death of a Pacifist?: On Akiyuki Nosaka's Death
The Japanese writer Akiyuki Nosaka died last month. He is best known, internationally, for his semi-autobiographical novel "A Grave of Fireflies," made famous by Studio ...
JAN 6, 2016 • Journal Online Exclusive
Global Governance and Keystone States
Critical challenges—environmental collapse, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism and crime, and state collapse—pose existential questions to the continued existence of nation-states.