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JAN 7, 2015 • Article
Global Inequality is Falling. So what?
Inequality is rising within countries, but falling for the world as a whole. What are we to make of this? This essay tackles the knotty ...
DEC 18, 2014 • Journal Online Exclusive
Restoring Diplomatic Relations with Cuba: Ethical Dilemmas
What, if any, are America's moral duties to the Cuban state and the Cuban people? And what do these duties say about America's commitment to ...
DEC 16, 2014 • Journal Online Exclusive
EIA Podcast: Introducing the Winter 2014 Issue
In this podcast, EIA Associate Editor Zach Dorfman speaks with Carnegie Council Communications Director Madeleine Lynn on the winter 2014 issue of the journal.
DEC 16, 2014 • Journal Online Exclusive
How Norms Die: A Response
Authoritarian regimes routinely use torture against domestic political opponents; democracies hardly ever do. What the two regimes share is that they place little weight on ...
DEC 15, 2014 • Article
Public Health in Brazil
Few countries in the world match Brazil's pledge to provide universal, free health care as a constitutional right. This promise extends far beyond routine check-ups ...
DEC 12, 2014 • Journal
Thomas Piketty’s Capital and the Developing World
NANCY BIRDSALL What is the future of the global capitalist system? In returning economics to politics, Capital reminds us that the road to global distributive ...
DEC 12, 2014 • Journal
How Norms Die: Torture and Assassination in American Security Policy
CHRISTOPHER KUTZ Because of their sensitivity to public mobilization around normative questions, democracies do better than authoritarian regimes in internalizing certain kinds of constraints. But ...
DEC 12, 2014 • Journal
On Collective Ownership of the Earth
Once positive laws and conventions regulating property evolve, in what sense is the world still owned by humanity? If I own my house and my ...
DEC 12, 2014 • Journal
Against Relationalism in Global Justice Theory
Much recent global justice theory consists of arguing for the idea that we owe more to fellow countrymen than to mere foreigners. Risse's book is ...
DEC 12, 2014 • Journal
Understanding “Cultures of Humanitarianism” in East Asia
What are the implications of the emerging diversity in humanitarianism? By examining such traditions in East Asia, we can better understand variations in the idea ...