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MAY 31, 2013 Journal

Judging State-Sponsored Violence, Imagining Political Change by Bronwyn Leebaw

Leebaw argues that two competing frameworks have come to dominate the field of transitional justice. The first stresses the promotion of law, trials, and individual ...

MAY 31, 2013 Journal

The Image before the Weapon: A Critical History of the Distinction between Combatant and Civilian by Helen Kinsella

This book traces the concept of the civilian from medieval times through the colonial era and up to its eventual codification only a few decades ...

MAY 31, 2013 Journal

Sex & World Peace by Valerie M. Hudson, Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Mary Caprioli, and Chad F. Emmett

This book clearly and forcefully lays out the links between women’s security and international and domestic security.

MAY 31, 2013 Journal

Roundtable: Reflections on International Peace [Full Text]

FREE FOR A LIMITED TIME! Special Centennial Roundtable on international peace. Featuring David Hendrickson, Akira Iriye, Andrew Hurrell, and more.

MAY 31, 2013 Journal

Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order by G. John Ikenberry

REVIEW BY DANIEL DEUDNEY This book masterfully draws on history, advances international relations theory, and illuminates foreign policy choices.

MAY 31, 2013 Journal

Building Common Ground: Going Beyond the Liberal Conundrum

To stay viable as a political ideology, liberalism needs to show that it can remain true to its universal norms while being responsive to cultural ...

MAY 31, 2013 Journal Online Exclusive

International Peace: One Hundred Years On

Americans have registered one set of lessons too well—those deriving from the seventy-five year war against German imperialism and Soviet communism. They have forgotten, ...

MAY 31, 2013 Journal

Peace as a Transnational Theme

To consider war and peace purely in the context of international relations is insufficient, even anachronistic. What we need is less an international than a ...

MAY 31, 2013 Journal

Concepts of Peace: From 1913 to the Present

The Great War and its imagery imprinted itself on the human imagination. In poetry and prose, photography, art, film, and other modes of expression, its ...

MAY 31, 2013 Journal

Viewing Peace Through Gender Lenses

Feminist theorizing of peace suggests a number of transformative observations. Feminist perspectives focus a critical lens on the meaning of peace, often making invisible violence ...