Recent Articles
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 ...