Recent Articles
SEP 4, 2014 • Journal
Just Freedom: A Moral Compass for a Complex World by Philip Pettit
An innovative and resonate work, this book explores new ground in Pettit’s ongoing attempt to articulate the importance of republicanism in the modern age.
SEP 4, 2014 • Journal
Western Pessimism, Asian Optimism: Three Perspectives on Global Governance
SIR RICHARD JOLLY Each of these books underlines the predicaments and challenges of global governance today. Stronger initiatives are urgently needed to provide the opportunities ...
SEP 4, 2014 • Journal
Who Are Atrocity’s “Real” Perpetrators, Who Its “True” Victims and Beneficiaries?
Modern law’s response to mass atrocities vacillates equivocally in how it understands the dramatis personae to these expansive tragedies, at once extraordinary and ubiquitous.
SEP 4, 2014 • Article
Mary Dudziak on Civil Liberties During WWI and Beyond
"Just as the nation is perpetually focused on security, we must also be perpetually focused on maintaining constitutional liberty."
SEP 2, 2014 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Zhao Zhong: Lessons from the Bottom Up
After an accident where nature nearly took his life, Zhao Zhong has been on a mission to protect the environment in his homeland of China.
AUG 28, 2014 • Journal Online Exclusive
Honesty about War?
The UN Charter commits its members to refrain from the use or even the threat of the use of force in their relations with other ...
AUG 22, 2014 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: A Storm in a Bucket: Lessons from the Ice Bucket Challenge Controversy
Fun-based activism such as the Ice Bucket Challenge does not persuade you; it mobilizes you. That's why it's been so successful.
AUG 19, 2014 • Article
A Clear and Present Danger: Why We Need the UN Security Council to Help Defeat ISIL
The relentless advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant poses an existential threat to countries of the region and a grave challenge ...
AUG 19, 2014 • Journal Online Exclusive
Are "Coalitions of the Willing" Moral Agents?
We should agree with Erskine that group decision-making procedures are crucial to group agency, but need to be more permissive than she is about how “...
AUG 18, 2014 • Article
Sarajevo: Perspectives from a Carnegie New Leader
Conor Moran, a member of the Carnegie Council Centennial delegation, shares some complex thoughts on the city of Sarajevo and the nation of Bosnia and ...