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SEP 11, 2015 • Article
Talking Peace in Person
Middle East peace talks have stalled. The 2014 war in Gaza caused the deaths of more than 2,000 people. Yet a group of 600 Palestinians and Israelis who ...
SEP 11, 2015 • Article
Let's Be Realistic About the "Military Option" Against Iran
Three dozen retired generals and admirals recently signed a letter supporting the agreement with Iran and declaring it a better option than military action. Why? ...
SEP 9, 2015 • Journal
Michael Blake's Border Controls
Michael Blake's rules for global justice are too rigid. They misinterpret the commitment to the moral equality of all humans everywhere, which is supposed to ...
SEP 9, 2015 • Journal
Justice and Foreign Policy: A Reply to My Critics
Sustained debate on the ethical dimensions of foreign policy is no longer a rarity. I thank Caney, Gilabert, Miller, and Stilz for their arguments, and ...
SEP 9, 2015 • Journal
Unethical Consumption and Obligations to Signal
To bring about an end to the harms involved in the production of everyday goods, what should the individual do?
SEP 9, 2015 • Journal
Coercion, Justification, and Inequality: Defending Global Egalitarianism
I share Blake’s commitment to universal liberal values and also his commitment to autonomy. We part ways, however, over the question of when egalitarian ...
SEP 9, 2015 • Journal
Global Moral Egalitarianism and Global Distributive Egalitarianism
A global egalitarian approach is better for characterizing the wrongs involved in international exploitation than a global sufficientarian approach.
SEP 9, 2015 • Journal
Against Democratic Interventionism
While we should persuade foreigners to democratize, we have no right to forcibly impose a democratic political order on them so long as their current ...
SEP 9, 2015 • Journal
The Ethics of Preventive War, Edited by Deen K. Chatterjee
Must states comply with the strict standards of international law when they have sound consequentialist reasons for waging preventive wars to avoid future threats of ...