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JUL 12, 2012 • Journal
How Academics Can Help People Make Better Decisions Concerning Global Poverty
In this essay I focus mainly on one decision one group of decision-makers faces—concerning whether to give money to NGOs working to combat global ...
JUL 12, 2012 • Journal
Global Poverty and the Limits of Academic Expertise
Academics are not a natural kind. They have varied expertise and aims, and most have no expertise that is particularly relevant to problems of poverty ...
JUL 12, 2012 • Journal
Hegemony in International Society by Ian Clark
This book is the third in a series in which Ian Clark has applied the concept of legitimacy to the English School’s way of ...
JUL 12, 2012 • Journal
The Arc of the Moral Universe and Other Essays by Joshua Cohen
This volume collects eleven of Joshua Cohen’s essays, each of which deals in some way with the nature and role of political justice and ...
JUL 12, 2012 • Journal
The Invention of International Relations Theory: Realism, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the 1954 Conference on Theory, Edited by Nicolas Guilhot
This collection of eight essays, diverse and insightful, attempts to gauge the true influence of the historic 1954 Conference on International Politics and, more important, to ...
JUL 12, 2012 • Journal
Moral Combat: Good and Evil in World War II by Michael Burleigh
In this popular survey of some of the larger moral demands and dilemmas of fighting World War II, Michael Burleigh is never boring and quite ...
JUL 1, 2012 • Journal
Summer 2012 (26.2)
This special issue, guest edited by Thomas Pogge and Luis Cabrera, features a series of articles from an expert symposium of Academics Stand Against Poverty, ...
JUN 28, 2012 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Globalizing Censorship
Consent of the Network by Rebecca MacKinnon is a must-read on how businesses and governments wield influence over the Internet.
JUN 26, 2012 • Article
Dealing with "Enablers" in Mass Atrocities: A New Human Rights Concept Takes Shape
Because mass atrocities are organized crimes, crippling the means to organize and sustain them--money, communications networks, and other resources--can disrupt their execution, writes George Lopez.