Recent Articles
AUG 2, 2014 • Article
Modern Europe's Roma: Still Denied Social Justice
Despite sustained EU efforts to develop a vigorous Roma inclusion policy, the vast majority of the 10–12 million strong European Roma remain severely marginalized, frequent targets ...
JUL 31, 2014 • Article
Carnegie’s Vision for Peace: WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Interviews Joel Rosenthal
Transcript of an interview on The Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC. “A little over 100 years ago, in February of 1914, the industrialist Andrew Carnegie started an organization ...
JUL 23, 2014 • Journal Online Exclusive
Upcoming Conferences of Interest: Fall & Winter 2014
These are some upcoming conferences the editors believe readers of the journal may interested in attending.
JUL 22, 2014 • Article
Japan’s "'76ers" Gain Global Attention: New Liberal Elite Can Change Japan
In this "Nikkei Business" interview, Carnegie Council Senior Fellow discusses his research on Japan's generation known as "76ers"--i.e. those born around 1976. He talked ...
JUL 22, 2014 • Journal Online Exclusive
The Ethics of Weapons Transfers: Ukraine and the Fate of MH-17
The tragic destruction of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 in the skies over Eastern Ukraine has once again raised the question about the degree of responsibility the ...
JUL 16, 2014 • Journal Online Exclusive
July 1914: Sean McMeekin on the Outbreak of World War I
Prior to WWI, says McMeekin, no one in Europe or elsewhere in the world—except the perpetrators—had any inkling that an avoidable act of ...
JUL 10, 2014 • Article
July 1914: Sean McMeekin on the Outbreak of World War I
Would Europe have gone to war had Franz Ferdinand survived his visit to Bosnia? What were the blunders and miscalculations on all sides that fateful ...
JUL 7, 2014 • Article
It's Time for the United States to Ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child
America is one of only two countries that has not yet ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The other is Somalia. As ...
JUL 1, 2014 • Journal
Summer 2014 (28.2)
This issue features essays by Roger Berkowitz on "Drones and the Question of 'The Human'" and Alan Sussman on the philosophical foundations of human rights; ...
JUN 27, 2014 • Journal Online Exclusive
Cataclysm: David Stevenson on World War I as Political Tragedy
For Stevenson, we must conclude that–although there were mitigating circumstances–Germany was centrally involved in the escalation of the crisis in July and August 1914.