Recent Articles
SEP 24, 2013 • Journal Online Exclusive
Syria and the Just Use of Force Short of War
The Obama administration has spoken of punishing the Assad regime, of deterring future attacks, of reinforcing the norm against chemical weapons use, and of diminishing ...
SEP 23, 2013 • Article
Threats Beyond the Headlines
“The Fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” So begins Isaiah Berlin’s essay, “The Hedgehog and Fox.” One year after ...
SEP 19, 2013 • Journal Online Exclusive
What We're Reading: Ethics Around the Web
Here are a few links to interesting and relevant stories around the web on ethics, political theory, international affairs, and more.
SEP 17, 2013 • Article
Update from the Carnegie Global Oregon Learning Community
The Carnegie Global Oregon Freshman Interest Group and learning community (CGO) is a pioneering effort that partners the University of Oregon with Carnegie Council to ...
SEP 17, 2013 • Article
The Fate of Cultural Property in Wartime: Why it Matters and What Should Be Done
Cultural property protection in conflict is often neglected as people argue that the lives of individuals in warzones are far more important than old buildings, ...
SEP 16, 2013 • Journal Online Exclusive
Upcoming Conferences of Interest
These upcoming conferences may be of interest to our readers.
SEP 16, 2013 • Journal
Just Business: Multinational Corporations and Human Rights by John Gerard Ruggie
This book offers an insider’s account of how the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights came into being. Although readers may sometimes strain ...
SEP 16, 2013 • Journal
How We Count Hunger Matters
In 2010 the FAO reported that in the wake of the 2007–2008 food-price spikes and global economic crisis, the number of people experiencing hunger worldwide since 2005–2007 had ...
SEP 16, 2013 • Journal
The Gordian Knot: Moral Debate and Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear weapons are not awe-inspiring, epochal, or war-winning, nor are they certain instruments of doom. They are clumsy, muscle-bound, expensive, unhandy weapons with little use ...
SEP 16, 2013 • Journal
The Threat of Nuclear Proliferation: Perception and Reality
The United States is right to be vigilant against the threat of nuclear proliferation. But such vigilance can all too easily lend itself to exaggeration ...