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SEP 13, 2012 • Journal
The Peculiar Politics of Energy [Full Text]
BY ANN FLORINI. The provision of energy services is a matter of basic distributional justice, which the world is failing to achieve.
SEP 13, 2012 • Journal
Humanity’s Law by Ruti G. Teitel
In the last years of the twentieth century, at least partly as a result of the end of the cold war, the language of universal ...
SEP 13, 2012 • Journal
The International Human Rights Movement: A History by Aryeh Neier
Aryeh Neier has written a fluent and engaging history of the international human rights movement, of which he is a senior statesman. But his "history" ...
SEP 13, 2012 • Journal
The Problem of Harm in World Politics: Theoretical Investigations by Andrew Linklater
Linklater engages in a sustained reflection on the core theoretical issues surrounding the problem of harm in world politics. His goal, as he puts it, ...
SEP 13, 2012 • Journal
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution by Francis Fukuyama
REVIEW BY JACK SNYDER. What is the historical secret leading to stable political orders?
SEP 13, 2012 • Journal
Briefly Noted
This section contains a round-up of recent notable books in the field of international affairs.
SEP 13, 2012 • Journal
Limiting the Killing in War: Military Necessity and the St. Petersburg Assumption
In this article, we explain why an ideal typical war cannot be regulated with rules that attach to individuals’ moral status; propose an alternative framework ...
SEP 13, 2012 • Journal
International Rescue and Mediated Consequences
It is generally assumed that when judging the proportionality of a humanitarian intervention, these consequences must be factored into the equation. If an intervention is ...
SEP 13, 2012 • Journal
Two Cheers for Humanitarianism
The unsettled boundaries of what properly constitutes humanitarianism brings a number of difficult questions to the surface.
SEP 10, 2012 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Banking on Themselves: Self-Help Groups Empower Poor Rural Women
Microfinance groups have helped the women of Chimbali village overcome the constraints of physical access to banks, lack of education, and social taboos to build ...