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JUN 12, 2015 • Journal
The Responsibility to Protect Turns Ten
The Responsibility to Protect has become an established international norm associated with positive changes to the way that international society responds to genocide and mass ...
JUN 12, 2015 • Journal
Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed—and What It Means for Our Future by Dale Jamieson
Jamieson is interested in the real rather than the ideal world. The result is a book that is uncommonly accessible to nonspecialists, and will resonate ...
JUN 12, 2015 • Journal
Just War Theory and the Last of Last Resort
Last resort should be jettisoned from the just war tradition because adhering to it can require causing or allowing severe harms to a greater number ...
JUN 12, 2015 • Journal
Innocents Abroad? Liberal Educators in Illiberal Societies
JIM SLEEPER Is anything in liberal education nonnegotiable? With numerous expansions abroad, American universities are testing these limits.
JUN 12, 2015 • Journal
Human Rights Law Without Natural Moral Rights
In his latest work, Allen Buchanan outlines a novel framework for assessing the system of international human rights law—the system that he takes to ...
JUN 12, 2015 • Journal
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama
Where did strong, adaptable, accountable states come from, and why do some countries have them and others do not? Fukuyama discusses three main paths to ...
JUN 12, 2015 • Journal
The Ethics of Immigration by Joseph Carens
The current ethical debate about the legitimacy of migration controls would not exist but for Joseph Carens' writing. At last the book-length version of his ...
JUN 12, 2015 • Journal
The Idea of Universality in the Sustainable Development Goals
Despite an apparent “emerging consensus that the post-2015 agenda should be universal,” there is less agreement over what universality means, and how this demand should ...
JUN 12, 2015 • Journal
Against Moral Absolutism: Surveillance and Disclosure After Snowden
RAHUL SAGAR Now that the uproar provoked by the disclosure of the NSA surveillance programs has lessened and Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald have had ...