Recent Articles
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 ...
SEP 16, 2013 • Journal
The Nonproliferation Complex
In this essay, we trace the history of the rise of the nuclear nonproliferation complex during and immediately after the cold war. We show how ...
SEP 16, 2013 • Journal
The Human Right to Health by Jonathan Wolff
This book will provoke the reader to think about how to bring the public sector, civil society, industry, patents, health financing, and human resources together ...
SEP 16, 2013 • Journal
Justice and Fairness in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime
This essay focuses on two key questions: First, how do the issues of justice and fairness affect the stability, durability, and effectiveness of the nuclear ...
SEP 16, 2013 • Journal
Kant and the End of War: A Critique of Just War Theory by Howard Williams; and Kant and Cosmopolitanism: The Philosophical Ideal of World Citizenship by Pauline Kleingeld
These new books, by two of the foremost contemporary scholars of Kant’s political philosophy, deal extensively with the theme of international peace.
SEP 16, 2013 • Article
A Lifeline for Peace in Syria--and for Obama
Why are we so reluctant to say the following? The overriding priority is to end the killing; defanging the Syrian chemical weapons complex will be ...
SEP 13, 2013 • Journal
Hunger, Food Security, and the African Land Grab
Many global analysts predict that the biggest security threats in the twenty-first century may center on disputes over water and the food that Earth’s ...