Recent Articles
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.
JAN 5, 2016 • Journal Online Exclusive
The Ethics of Arming Rebels and U.S. Policy—A Clash?
Having encouraged rebels to continue to fight by providing weapons and financial support, do sponsors have the duty to ensure their side can actually win ...
JAN 4, 2016 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: "World Hunger: Ten Myths" by Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins
Chapter by chapter, Frances Moore Lappé and her co-authors demolish the myths that have long prevented us from addressing hunger, and examine the policies that ...
DEC 30, 2015 • Journal Online Exclusive
Duties Owed: Does the International Trump the National Community?
If particular states are asked to assume burdens "for the good of all," what claim to be compensated does that state have in return?
DEC 23, 2015 • Journal Online Exclusive
Is There an "International Community"?
We hear the term "international community" so often that it becomes part of the background noise of political statements, but it may help to revisit ...
DEC 21, 2015 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Can the University Help Make Better Cities?
We need 21st-century institutions for 21st-century urbanization and cities. If we have the courage to reimagine and remake them, universities can be at the heart ...
DEC 16, 2015 • Journal Online Exclusive
Upcoming Conferences of Interest 2015-2016
These are some upcoming conferences the editors believe readers of the journal may be interested in attending.