Recent Articles
MAR 18, 2014 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Building Resilience
Now is the time for New York to take control of its aging infrastructure and set aside a fund for investing in and upgrading pipelines ...
MAR 17, 2014 • Article
The Lost Promise of Patriotism: Jonathan Hansen on World War I (Part I)
Jonathan Hansen refers to a group of American scholars, public intellectuals, and social reformers—such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Eugene V. Debs, Jane ...
MAR 17, 2014 • Journal
The Politics and Ethics of Identity: In Search of Ourselves by Richard Ned Lebow
Lebow argues that nearly all the claims made by social theorists emphasizing the importance of identity are wrong.
MAR 16, 2014 • Journal Online Exclusive
Assessing the Ethics of Secession: Crimea
The vote in Crimea draws attention to the clash between adherence to proper, constitutional procedure and the right to self-determination.
MAR 16, 2014 • Journal Online Exclusive
The Ethics of Avoiding Conflict with China
Is there a policy prescription that can avoid turning predictions of a Sino-American clash into a self-fulfilling prophecy?
MAR 15, 2014 • Journal
Political Self-Sacrifice: Agency, Body and Emotion in International Relations by K. M. Fierke
This book brings what seem like senseless acts of desperation into focus as strategically intelligible and culturally meaningful techniques of resistance.
MAR 14, 2014 • Journal
The International Rule of Law: Law and the Limit of Politics
The international rule of law provides political resources with which states and other actors legitimize and delegitimize contending policies. The atomistic nature of the interstate ...
MAR 14, 2014 • Journal
Hobbes on the International Rule of Law
The practice of state compliance with international law is not that easily demonstrated to be the product of legal constraint. Indeed, the problem goes beyond ...
MAR 14, 2014 • Journal
International Law and the Mediation of Culture
This essay advances an alternative perspective on culture and international law. After exploring in greater detail determinist accounts of this relationship, I reverse the typically ...
MAR 14, 2014 • Journal
Drones and the International Rule of Law
U.S. drone strikes represent a significant challenge to the international rule of law. This is not because they “violate” international law; ironically, drone strikes ...